If this is true, it’s the biggest news story of our lifetime.
Krypton? It fits the profile.
I don’t care how fast it’s moving or how sunset lit or what the tax code is there, I’m ready to GO.
“If this is true, it’s the biggest news story of our lifetime.”
Do you really think so? As soon as one planet was discovered around one star anywhere outside the solar system, that meant our solar system is not a one off. And that means it was a virtual certainty that planets in the “habitable zone” would be found eventually.
This discovery is only that it’s possible the planet is neither freezing nor cooking and therefore might have liquid water.
“If this is true, it’s the biggest news story of our lifetime.”
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If what is true?
We have been discovering stars with planets for several years now.
It would be big news only if life is found on one or more.
Who could spend 20 years or so to go see them?
Hardly - the place isn't habitable - four time the gravity of earth? Rather than weigh 170, I'd weigh 680 pounds and be unable to lift my body off the ground.
That's what its inhabitants said when they discovered the mini planet Earth....
I don't know. I think it would mean much more if someone invented warp drive so we can get there. A planet that's in range is worth the whole rest of the universe in the bush. ;)