Earth-like planet discovered around another star!

[CannabisCrooz]

Really opens up ones imagination, ahhh i just wish i could live to see the exploration of it

CannabisCrooz Reviewed by CannabisCrooz on 04-26-2007. Earth-like planet discovered around another star! This is seriously some cool shit. :smokin: Exoplanets | Sister Earth | Economist.com Apr 25th 2007 | EARTH From Economist.com Is there anybody out there? IF EXTRATERRESTRIAL life were to exist, it would need a planet on which to evolve. All but one of 200-or-so planets outside the solar system discovered by astronomers so far would be quite unsuitable. That is because these planets are composed of gas. Yet the one whose discovery was announced in the early hours of Wednesday April 25th Rating: 5

[lunchbox3445]

man, this is really cool.

[Ganj]

Really opens up ones imagination, ahhh i just wish i could live to see the exploration of it

Do you have some kind of terminal illness? If so, we'll letter the scientists and tell them to hurry it the hell up.

[surreys princess]

i was reading about this last night....

awesome...just awesome....

[Oppositional P]

Our astronauts are still amusing themselves w/ amazingly important discoveries like wether or not a yo-yo will work in zero gravity. Silly crap like a planet somewhere can wait until the folks at NASA are done worshiping themselves.

[Runaway Jim]

YouTube - The Hubble Deep Field: The Most Important Image Ever Taken
Watch this and try and tell me that we are the only life in the universe.
Trips me the fuck out.
The numa numa part is gay as fuck but after that 30 seconds its pretty gnarly shit.

[Ben Dover]

that is so cool!
i think science is boring.. except for astronomy.
you just have to wonder what else is out there.
it's limitless, and no matter how much you find out about it, you will never find everything.

[Oneironaut]

Our astronauts are still amusing themselves w/ amazingly important discoveries like wether or not a yo-yo will work in zero gravity. Silly crap like a planet somewhere can wait until the folks at NASA are done worshiping themselves.

Are you insinuating that astronauts and NASA aren't doing anything productive or aren't doing useful science? Sure, they're not perfect, but the space program is one of the few really productive things that our government does for humanity. I don't know where you get this idea that they're just fooling around with yo-yo's. They're discovering the history of the universe, developing new technologies, working out problems in physics, and building our planet's global communications system.

Long live humanity! Long live the space program!
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Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

Besides, this discovery was not made by any government space program. Regular astronomers did this, to expand their knowledge of astronomy. What's the objection to that?

[JaggedEdge]

I agree the are working, but I would like to see them put more effort into actually exploring space. A lot of cool gadgets and technology have come out of NASA, but I also would like to us working at getting our ships furthur out there.

Maybe go to other places than the moon, which has a legit argument suggesting it was a fabrication. I don't believe many conspiracy theories, but I think that one has merit.

They have done great things, but they have kind of ignored actually exploring space with the exception of telescopes on hills.

[wrasler]

i just read about this today @ lunch. pretty sweet.
i wonder how long it will take to come up with the technology to get to the planet in a reasonable amout of time.