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Posted by: capn_caveman 2 years, 8 months agoAn international team of astronomers from Switzerland, France and Portugal have discovered the most Earth-like planet outside our Solar System to date.
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Harbeas
April 24, 2007, 3:27 p.m.I wonder what would happen if we started looking for life on planets as we don't know it. Isn't it possible there could be life forms out there that are not water based?
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vidman04
April 24, 2007, 4:21 p.m.I've said it before, every, and I mean EVERY, story on Nutscape always turns into a bash Bush piece..sheesh, don't you people have anything better to do?...
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HannibalBarca
April 24, 2007, 4:23 p.m.They do it to pi$$ you off,it"s fun picking on the shrub and his losers
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bacalaoyplatano
April 24, 2007, 4:25 p.m.I bet soon they'll tell us that day time temperatures vary between 300-561F and nightime temps between -221F -26F and that the only similarity is that 65,201 years ago it had earthlike seas.
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Coatl
April 24, 2007, 4:50 p.m.From the article:
"According to the research team, the host star, Gliese 581, is among the 100 closest stars to us, located only 20.5 light-years away in the constellation Libra"
Wow that's pretty close, I hope It can be confirmed by other group or astronomers. But I wouldn't be too optimistic, the article didn't said that they found traces of water within the atmosphere, It could be a hotter and larger version of mars.
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droid3913
April 24, 2007, 5:09 p.m.OK...how in hell does these people know this planet might have life? What kind of telescope are they using? Even with the Hubble, we can't get that fine of detail!
I'll be the first one beamed aboard the Enterprise to get away from the liberals on Earth!
"Beam me up Scotty. There's only liberals on this planet!"
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Harbeas
April 24, 2007, 5:42 p.m.I agree vidman. It is either twisted to include bush or it is because he/she is a liberal/conservaative. Every subjecdt is not about politics.
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mr_robinson
April 24, 2007, 5:58 p.m.If it takes 13 days for it to rotate around the sun, then one day on that planet is gonna have about 312 hours haha. I dunno if i wanna live there !
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Taganan
April 24, 2007, 7:49 p.m.The Left laughs and makes stupid jokes, showing their ignorance about something while the rest of us are genuinely intrigued by a new scientific discovery. They show that they have no faith in the ability of Mankind to succeed in anything, only belief that we will mess it up, that we are doomed to lose, be failures. The planet has a higher gravity than Earth and although it may be colonizable it will take a lot of adaptation and will cost a lot of lives on the way. We need a planet nearer to Earth-size to colonize. One day an asteroid we cannot stop, a planet-killer, will strike and there will be no more people, unless we establish viable self-supporting colonies in this system or in others. The Left will laugh, but that is a fact.
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MajJohn
April 24, 2007, 7:58 p.m.Talk about speculation!, are these global warming scientists? Just wondering!
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NoWayMan
April 24, 2007, 8:21 p.m.Cheney's already planning the invasion.
He says they'll greet us with flowers.
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agentX
April 24, 2007, 9 p.m.If there is any life there, it'll be 'stronger' than us because the gravity of that world would be higher than here, so I'm not gonna want to pick a fight with anybody that currently lives there.
As far as shipping Bush & Co there, let's not send our garbage there. Let's try and put our best face forward.
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jsouders
April 24, 2007, 9:06 p.m.very good enjoyed the article.
i wont get to see it.
but i enjoy the banter of the comments.
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truthiness
April 24, 2007, 9:26 p.m.only 20.5 lght yrs. excellent if we send a shuttle now we can be there in..let me calculate...never. still its good to know there is something to shoot for
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maffst
April 24, 2007, 9:35 p.m.It's about time. I've been waiting for a planet. Now I can go there on vacation. Bye fools.
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stephen-johnson
April 24, 2007, 10:12 p.m.I wonder if this planet has enough of an atmosphere to filter out the ultraviolet/gamma/cosmic radiation that the star produces? Even if it's a red dwarf, it's only about 6-7 million miles away from the planet. Too close for comfort for me
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miklkit
April 24, 2007, 11:09 p.m.That planet has 5 times the mass of earth. I guess that means that gravity is 5 times stronger. Can you carry 5 times your own weight? I can't.
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zonkra
April 24, 2007, 11:30 p.m.Another Earth-like planet with an alien dawn
and not very far considering how far we've gone
but Earth is in tatters
so it hardly matters
since we can't even handle the planet we're on!
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zonkra
April 24, 2007, 11:35 p.m.Maybe it's got creatures who'd consider us dumb
maybe they wouldn't be thrilled if we come
and with a leader so unenlightened
they might even be frightened
and tell us to go back to the place we were from!
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HowieWowie
April 24, 2007, 11:36 p.m.I wouldn't get too excited, it sounds like a lot of speculation is involved here. I'm sure it is much different than we envision.
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Countryhick
April 25, 2007, 12:36 a.m.So that is where all the Aliens are coming from .
I told the one the other night turn left at Mars and got for about 19.2 light years , oops .
I wonder if the Earth is like a summer retreat , for them with Global Warming and all ?
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