Scientists Find A Place Like Earth

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Fascinating dont you think?

Is there a link or...?

You're kidding right?🤪

Oh, the picture...

*smacks forehead*

😛

Wow, that's neat...

So how many planets and systems have they found so far? One report said around 100 planets...

I want to go visit that palnet on Star Trek with the sexy green women😄

Who doesn't 😉
Haha, rock on! 🤘

Kinda off topic, but does anyone know what that movie is called where these people found a new Earth and named is Planet Bob?

wow thats cool. prolly some life on that planet. fungi or somthin

that would be Titan A.E., Shadow Angel.

that was a really interesting article, tex. thanx! 😄

just outta curiosity, are you a physics student, tex? or just interested in this sort of stuff?

Probably some life on that planet? It's a gas giant- no life at all!

They haven't actually FOUND an Earth-like planet. They haven't found any other planets there at all other than a huge ball of gas. They just theorise that MIGHT be the kind of place that MIGHT have a set of planets SIMILAR to our own, based on having discovered one single planet that has an orbit remotely like Jupiter's.

It is interesting enough but the importance of it has been exaggerated; I read a report exactly the same as this in June last year but for a different solar system. In fact, they find this sort of thing rather a lot, here is a similar report from last September:

http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/news/tau1_gruis.html

It'll be a long, LONG time before we find a planet remotely like Earth because we lack the means to detect one.

Rex, if you want details on this kind of thing, try these:

http://exoplanets.org/
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/planets/

thanx for those ush - i hav to do a biology report on extra-terrestrial life and those will be really helpful!

if people say the universe is infinite (if that's the word for never ending, can't remember for some reason) then it also means there are infinit amount of planets, meaning at least SOME can bare life

yeh, i cant believe we are the only planet to create sentient life...

we're not

yeh - thers planet yerssle too!

We aren't sure if the Universe is infinite, but regardless it is VERY large, large beyond comprehension. Sadly by that same logic it could take millenia or more before we found another planet capable of supporting life.

thats just depressing, ush, so sssssssh! no depressing talk!! be happy - i have to go back to evil school place in 20 mins!