Astronomers Spot Most Earth-Like Planet Yet

[DeusxMac]

"Astronomers have discovered what they say is the most Earth-like planet yet detected - a distant, rocky world that's similar in size to our own and exists in the Goldilocks zone where it's not too hot and not too cold for life"

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/U...ET?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-04-17-15-54-45

[N-OS X-tasy!]

500 light-years!

[Lew Zealand]

Well, it was Earth like about 500 years ago. It's probably all gone to pot since then.

[kj4btkljv]

I'll go check it out.

Who wants to help me make an FTL drive for the ship?

Jeff

[deckeda]

N-OS X-tasy! wrote:
500 light-years!

TOTAL DEAL-BREAKER FOR ME!

[Carnos Jax]

I wonder if we'll ever image these things directly (to where we can make out some features)? Is it a matter of building a telescope large enough (to gather as much light possible)? I think I once read where this kind of thing were impossible (even if you had a large enough telescope)...something to do with the properties of light.

[The UnDoug]

Lew Zealand wrote:
Well, it was Earth like about 500 years ago. It's probably all gone to pot since then.

We've already started down that road, as well, in Colorado and Washington! ;-)

[cbelt3]

kj4btkljv wrote:
I'll go check it out.

Who wants to help me make an FTL drive for the ship?

Jeff

Don't know how , but I can do time travel. Like this ...






pow ! I'm in the future !

[Uncle Wig]

Best thing is: there's no Belgians there! Belgians ruin everything. Oooh I hate them so much.

:villagers:

[DeusxMac]