In our search to find Earth like planets it seems we’ve now discovered one that may be suitable to support life encircling our nearest stellar neighbour.
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Credit: NY Times
One Star Over, a Planet That Might Be Another Earth – NYTimes.com
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I am entirely stoked about this discovery. Sure it may not wind up being habitable. The planet might have only one sunny side and perpetual darkness on the other, but it’s nice to know that humanity might just have a lifeboat out there.
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I have to disagree Simon, a civil servant would love to have a planet to run without politicians getting in the way and changing the rules every 5 mins.
And with that time gap in communications…a positive gift!
“Sorry, we didn’t get the full message. Could you repeat please?”
(OK folks that’ll buy us another two years)
(The planet would of course have to be named Humphrey or Appleby)
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Hmm, get to work NASA,… chop, chop!!! I want FTL now!!
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They’ve had a few years… How hard can it be? Lol
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Right!! Virgin Galactic and Elon Musk better step up with the assist!
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Ha! Definitely…
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Already Hollywood failed us, no flying cars or skateboards. #BackToTheFutureLies
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It’s because we gave control to accountants.
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Probably true! And evil, evil politicians!!
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Possibly… But I think maybe it’s the civil servants in government that really run it all 😈
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More than likely, no accountability!
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This is true…
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This stuff is so exciting, isn’t it? 😃
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It is, what will they be finding int twenty years?
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Hmm… a planet like Earth, eh? Does that mean we’re going to give up on colonizing the moon and focus on moving out to this new planet? (I only skimmed the article… Sorry. It was long.)
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It was long and I do that if they get long. I think it’s baby steps and once we’ve cracked the moon and Mars… what’s stopping us? Oh yes… physics. Damn Physics lol
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And Oxygen. And water. And sustainability. Oh! And I don’t know: Not destroying every planet in our path like a plague. Hmm… that too.
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