Earth-like planet found orbiting the star next door

AP via CBC ^ | 08/24/2016

[Phlap]

After scanning the vast reaches of the cosmos for Earth-like planets where life might exist, astronomers have found one right next door. NASA's New Horizons probe, the fastest spacecraft launched, left Earth hurtling toward Pluto at about 36,000 mph. At that speed, it would take more than 78,000 years to get there.

[Phlap]

Only 78,000 years? What are we waiting for? lol

[Buckeye McFrog]

Whoever the first guy is to land there will probably think he’s in India.

[Dilbert San Diego]

There are numerous Class M planets in the galaxy. The inhabitants of those planets are humanoid and speak English. And they have attractive females who grab the attention of Captain Kirk.

[DoughtyOne]

Glorious.  Another planet for the Democrats to turn gender neutral, move members of Islam to, and if at all possilbe facilitate the rape and butchering of any life there.


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[EQAndyBuzz]

“There are numerous Class M planets in the galaxy. The inhabitants of those planets are humanoid and speak English. And they have attractive females who grab the attention of Captain Kirk.”

My luck, I would get there and it will look like Camden.

[mountainlion]

Earthlike? There are over 500 attributes that makes earth livable for this species. At such a distance most of their proof seems to be hallucinations.

[max americana]

If Trump loses, time wont be a problem for me. Im there dude..

[Snickering Hound]

4.6 million miles from a flaring red dwarf star so it’s atmosphere, if it ever had one, has long been stripped away.

It’ll be tide locked meaning the same face of the planet is always facing the star. And it probably has tidal heating as well meaning the surface will be molten much like Jupiter’s moon Io.

So earth-like it’s not.

[Red Badger]

[DigitalVideoDude]

[amorphous]

We should send the three stooges: Obama, Hitlery, and Soros, to check it out!

[Buckeye McFrog]

Three words.....Orion Slave Girls!

[AppyPappy]

Tell Obama it has a golf course.

[BitWielder1]

There are doors in space?

[Dr. Sivana]

The inhabitants of those planets are humanoid and speak English. And they have attractive females who grab the attention of Captain Kirk.

That's only some of them. Here are some of the others:

[Alas Babylon!]

Ah, but they said Earth Like, not Earth “Livable”.

[from occupied ga]

and one that could be reachable by tiny, unmanned space probes before the end of the century, in time for some people alive today to witness it.

WTF? 25 trillion miles away. End of the century 84 years away. That's a speed of 297,619,047,619 miles per year. divide by 8760 the number of hours in a year and you get 33,974,777 miles per hour (about 5% of light speed). No technology we have can get a probe up to that speed, and remember whatever we launch as to climb out of the solar gravity well, so even more energy is needed to get it up to speed than is represented by the simple newtonian e = 1/2MV²

[stremba]

Actually if you can get ALL the Dems and Muzzies to go it’d be a pretty good idea.

[tumblindice]

"It's Shirley."

[sargon]

Hey, that Leprechaun-like alien is none other than Ted Cruz!

Vote Trump!