A shot of Promixa Centauri snapped by the Hubble Telescope
A shot of Promixa Centauri snapped by the Hubble Telescope
Do they want any Syrian refugees?
A say we go “log the hell out that planet” first thing to piss off the libs ...
How soon till the U.S. gov is sending them taxpayer money?
Must be getting close to funding time. These type of sensational stories come around every year.
Al Gore’s home found at last
Anyway I call BS. Earthlike? No... Radiation from the two suns would have rendered it uninhabitable.
Move along earthlings. Nothing to see here...
This is so breathlessly stupid
The Sun really is ginning this
Maybe the secrecy was afforded to give time to confirm what should have been inevitable: Life. That is, of course, if you go in for the "law of life" stuff.
So perhaps the surprise will be in what is not found on this planet. We experienced that disappointment in the Scientific Community with the Mars missions already.
"Another Earth" (IMDB link)Highly recommended movie. Very engaging story.
The Sun is a British scandal sheet and sensational rag.
This is not a “second Earth”. Fantasizing about this being a duplicate of our planet doesn’t make it so.
“so close by.” 4.2 light years. We have no way of approaching a speed high enough to take us there in any usable period of time. Very likely, humans will, in the future. But not now.
Humanity has dealt with this kind of communication dilemma before, during the Earth's colonization by those evil white men whose descendants now run space exploration. A letter from an East India Company clerk in Calcutta back to London would take months to reach London. And that was barring incidents with storms, mutinies, pirates, and mail mistakenly used for shipboard toilet paper. So we'd probably figure out a way to cope but it won't look anything like Star Trek and real time sub-space chats.
The only reason the power that be would cover up the existence of aliens and other worlds would be that they don;t want us to leave so they can control us...
They don’t want a repeat of events which would lead to an “America in Space” revolting against the monarchy again....
Unless and until we achieve light speed we are not going anywhere any time soon. Not today and not tomorrow. These are the facts.
At no point in history has any government ever wanted its people to be defenseless for any good reason ~ nully's son
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Only about 80,000 years away, at our current level of technology...
It is named Washington D.C.
For in excess of 50 years I have believed that earth is not the only planet in our universe which will support life forms such as are found here.
I also believe that we humans are not the only intelligent life forms in the universe.
HST, I have trouble understanding why some so-called “intelligent” life forms on this planet are and/or support LIEberals, Democrats, Socialists, Marxists, Islam, etc., etc.
Upon careful consideration of the above statement, I can only conclude that life forms which are and/or support them are, plainly and simply, DUMBASSES!
And, furthermore, since there are dumbasses on earth, it follows that if there is another inhabitable planet in our universe (and surely there is!), there will be dumbasses there as well!
I wonder if they deal with their dumbasses as ingorantly and clumsily as we do?
