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Earth-like planet found orbiting the star next door
AP via CBC ^
| 08/24/2016
Posted on 08/24/2016 10:19:54 AM PDT by 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.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: xplanets
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Only 78,000 years? What are we waiting for? lol
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posted on
08/24/2016 10:19:54 AM PDT
by
Phlap
To: Phlap
Whoever the first guy is to land there will probably think he’s in India.
To: Phlap
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.
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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posted on
08/24/2016 10:22:41 AM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(He wins & we do, our nation does, the world does. It's morning in America again. You are living it!)
To: 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.”
My luck, I would get there and it will look like Camden.
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posted on
08/24/2016 10:24:49 AM PDT
by
EQAndyBuzz
(It appears as if Trump is our Yeltsin.)
To: Phlap
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.
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posted on
08/24/2016 10:25:15 AM PDT
by
mountainlion
(Live well for those that did not make it back.)
To: Phlap
If Trump loses, time wont be a problem for me. Im there dude..
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posted on
08/24/2016 10:25:39 AM PDT
by
max americana
(fired every liberal in our company at every election cycle..and laughed at their faces (true story))
To: Phlap
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.
To: Buckeye McFrog
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posted on
08/24/2016 10:27:42 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Make America AMERICA again!.........................)
To: Dilbert San Diego
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posted on
08/24/2016 10:30:23 AM PDT
by
DigitalVideoDude
(It's amazing what you can accomplish when you don't care who gets the credit. -Ronald Reagan)
To: Phlap
We should send the three stooges: Obama, Hitlery, and Soros, to check it out!
To: Red Badger
Three words.....Orion Slave Girls!
To: amorphous
Tell Obama it has a golf course.
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posted on
08/24/2016 10:32:29 AM PDT
by
AppyPappy
(If you really want to irritate someone, point out something obvious they are trying hard to ignore.)
To: Phlap
There are doors in space?
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posted on
08/24/2016 10:33:03 AM PDT
by
BitWielder1
(I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
To: Dilbert San Diego
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posted on
08/24/2016 10:33:07 AM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
(There's no salvation in politics.)
To: mountainlion
Ah, but they said Earth Like, not Earth “Livable”.
To: Phlap
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
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posted on
08/24/2016 10:34:11 AM PDT
by
from occupied ga
(Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
To: DoughtyOne
Actually if you can get ALL the Dems and Muzzies to go it’d be a pretty good idea.
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posted on
08/24/2016 10:38:50 AM PDT
by
stremba
To: Phlap
"It's Shirley."
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posted on
08/24/2016 10:41:25 AM PDT
by
tumblindice
(America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
To: Dr. Sivana
Hey, that Leprechaun-like alien is none other than Ted Cruz!
Vote Trump!
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posted on
08/24/2016 10:42:33 AM PDT
by
sargon
(Any one AWOL in the battle against Hillary is certainly not a patriot. It's that simple.)
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