Cool.
1 posted on
04/24/2007 1:41:03 PM PDT by
Sopater
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To: Sopater
I don’t know about “habitable”, though. I’d weigh 1000 lbs!
2 posted on
04/24/2007 1:44:57 PM PDT by
HeadOn
(Use your brain. Nuff said.)
To: Sopater
Wake me when they discover that it's suffering from GlobalWarming™.
3 posted on
04/24/2007 1:45:23 PM PDT by
Egon
("If all your friends were named Cliff, would you jump off them??" - Hugh Neutron)
To: Sopater
Now we need an FTL drive to get there.....
4 posted on
04/24/2007 1:45:42 PM PDT by
Spktyr
(Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
To: Sopater
“However, unlike our Earth, this planet takes only 13 days to complete one orbit round its star”
Wow, a 13 day year. The IRS would love it.
5 posted on
04/24/2007 1:45:48 PM PDT by
Neville72
(uist)
To: Sopater
The problem is that red dwarfs are rather unstable stars and prone to sending out large bursts of Xrays from time to time.
7 posted on
04/24/2007 1:46:46 PM PDT by
Dreagon
To: Sopater
We could leave right now, and still not get there by breakfast...
9 posted on
04/24/2007 1:47:18 PM PDT by
Hegemony Cricket
(Your mileage may vary - right now my mileage is pretty much aweful.)
To: Sopater
10 posted on
04/24/2007 1:47:33 PM PDT by
sully777
(You have flies in your eyes--Catch-22)
To: Sopater
Calling it “habitable” is an awfully optimistic claim. Interesting story anyway.
11 posted on
04/24/2007 1:47:53 PM PDT by
cripplecreek
(Peace without victory is a temporary illusion.)
To: Sopater
According to the research team, the host star, Gliese 581, is among the 100 closest stars to us, located only 20.5 light-years away in the constellation Libra (“the Scales”). Oh GREAT! If they have decoded our transmissions, they are now observing:
German lands airplane on Red Square, Moscow
Thatcher re-elected (again)
The INF agreement between the US and the USSR
Black Monday - Stock market drops 22% on October 19th.
Artists protest the ongoing Sistine Chapel restoration.
Condom commericals begin to appear on TV for the first time.
US budget reaches the trillion dollar mark.
Robert Bork was denied a Supreme Court appointment after opposition to his involvement in Richard Nixon's "Saturday Night Massacre" was raised.
Jessica Hahn is implicated in the Jimmy Bakker scandal
13 posted on
04/24/2007 1:48:00 PM PDT by
Gorzaloon
(Global Warming: A New Kind Of Scientology for the Rest Of Us.)
To: Sopater
I hope it’s water, because I’d weigh 300 pounds on that planet...........
15 posted on
04/24/2007 1:48:25 PM PDT by
Red Badger
(If it's consensus, it's not science. If it's science, there's no need for consensus......)
To: Sopater
It’d be interesting to know how much of this is sheer speculation. 99%? 100%?
The nice thing about theorizing like this is that you will never be disproven in your own lifetime.
16 posted on
04/24/2007 1:49:13 PM PDT by
BibChr
("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
To: Sopater
Now maybe we’ll find out where all those UFO’s park. ;)
17 posted on
04/24/2007 1:49:22 PM PDT by
Chena
(I want a President who will also be tough against liberalism. HONK!!!)
To: Sopater
If it’s not M-Class, it’s not squat!
19 posted on
04/24/2007 1:50:21 PM PDT by
TC Rider
(The United States Constitution ? 1791. All Rights Reserved.)
To: Sopater
Not to be Americentric or anything, but I'd like to read NASA's take on this group's findings.
Seems like there's more speculation than science.
20 posted on
04/24/2007 1:53:45 PM PDT by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: Sopater
Took you guys long enough...
22 posted on
04/24/2007 1:54:58 PM PDT by
NCjim
(The more I use Windows, the more I love UNIX)
To: Sopater
"super-Earth"Tell those Euro-weenies that Americans already have high-resolution photographs of the surface of SuperEarth:
26 posted on
04/24/2007 2:00:25 PM PDT by
Yossarian
(Everyday, somewhere on the globe, somebody is pushing the frontier of stupidity...)
To: Sopater
this is
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To: Sopater
A day or two ago there was the “Kryptonite” story. Then today the “habitable” planet story.
It was not Kryptonite. It is not known if the planet is habitable.
This is why I totally mistrust all news stories in the media that have to do with science. I figure that the media sensationalizes the story so much that there is little truth left. They will do anything to get a mind-numbed public to look at the headline or read the story.
A public that has no idea of how to think critically gobbles up the nonsense.
To: Sopater
Envirofreekos can leave now!!
33 posted on
04/24/2007 2:08:21 PM PDT by
HardStarboard
(The Democrats are more afraid of American Victory than Defeat!)
To: Sopater
Envirofreekos can leave now!!
34 posted on
04/24/2007 2:08:29 PM PDT by
HardStarboard
(The Democrats are more afraid of American Victory than Defeat!)
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