Posted on 12/17/2009 1:40:25 AM PST by Dallas59
While the planet probably has too thick of an atmosphere and is too hot to support life similar to that found on Earth, the discovery is being heralded as a major breakthrough in humanity's search for life on other planets.
"The big excitement is that we have found a watery world orbiting a very nearby and very small star," said David Charbonneau, a Harvard professor of astronomy and lead author of an article on the discovery, which appeared this week in the journal Nature.
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Must be a Class M Planet. The Global Warming kooks will probably try to say CO2 from Earth is killing the aliens.
Lol...I uploaded the wrong picture..Fake but accurate.
Sounds like Ferenginar. Let’s do business!
Yippeee! We’re saved from ourselves! Now, there is no limit to where we can send those Liberals. I say we start right doing that immediately!
.....maybe they knew about us,before we found out about .....them
Nope its Venus....Where did they find this thing ? What star? How far away is it ? This CNN report sucks.
http://www,theusmat.com/
A light year is 9 Trillion Miles...and if this thing is 40 light years away.....its NOT NEAR BY IN LAYMAN’S Terms.
“A light year is 9 Trillion Miles...and if this thing is 40 light years away.....its NOT NEAR BY IN LAYMAN’S Terms.”
You can get there by the subway, but you have to transfer like a billion times.
they never quit.
A consensus here on earth is forming that this planet once did support life, but it developed SUVs and harnessed coal and oil for power. The civilization there not only heated their atmosphere, but the added CO2 added to their atmosphere, killing them off.
Let’s send all the lefties there so they can cool the place down.
“What star? How far away is it ? This CNN report sucks.”
You beat me to it. The story is worthless without a distance in light years.
**Scientists Spot Nearby ‘Super-Earth’**
What’s it like?
JERRY: Yeah. Like Bizarro Superman. Superman’s exact opposite, who lives in the backwards bizarro world. Up is Down. Down is Up. He says “Hello” when he leaves, “Good bye” when he arrives.
It is Planet Utopio. Obamas home. Everything is free there...but there isn’t any.
And all inhabitants are democrats. they live in the muck and have closed eyes.
“A light year is 9 Trillion Miles...and if this thing is 40 light years away.....its NOT NEAR BY IN LAYMAN’S Terms.”
I remember back in the late 50s, there was a great interest in turning radio telescopes to one star that was 11 light years away.
The theory was that high power VHF TV signals that had originated about 22 years earlier could have reached some planet that might be orbiting this star, and it was now time to look for some return signal.
The SETI program followed, using the huge radio telescope in Puerto Rico.
I gather that the program is all but dead, with only some volunteers listening for signals from space.
A light year is just under six trillion miles (5.878e12). You forgot the km to mi conversion (*0.621).
Isn’t the Journal “Nature” one of the ones being used by Climategate “scientists” to keep out Global Warming deniers from getting “peer reviewed” articles published?
Maybe I’m thinking of something else....just for some reason have a negative reaction to seeing this is in that publication.
ELAINE: Wouldn’t he say “Bad bye?”
JERRY: What?
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