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Astronomers Spot Planet Which Could Have Earth-Like Climate, Water On Surface
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- The acquisition of knowledge is never a waste of time!
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- i dont know why the hell they waste public money on such a crapy researches.
the planet is located about 20 light years away from us.
instead of wasting public money on such useles things why not spend those monies to find a cure for HIV or cancer!
What we get from it when a bald head come to Tv and announce:
We found a planet 15 trillion miles away which MAY have water on it! - Reply to this comment
- If the planet is too far away for any current human space flight travel.... this was a waste of scientific time!
If the planet is too far away for even a robotic satellite exploration/observation.... then this was a waste of scientific time!
My God! An Astronomer's career must be tremendously boring. Years go by, and maybe, just maybe there's that one big discovery in one's career lifetime. It may be the only thing more boring than fishing! Hours upon hours of sitting in a boat, day after day, waiting for that 'big catch'...
... and all you walk away with is a friggen minnow!
However, if fishing was more of a science, you could 'theorize' that there was that 4 foot long Marlin a few thousand yards away from your boat. But for various reasons, (or excuses), it was just humanly impossible to get to that Marlin before it 'got away'. - Reply to this comment
- Sounds like a good place to send Bush/Cheney to.
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- These scientists are grasping at straws. How would they know what constitutes "life" out there. What is too hot or too cold to humans could be just right for other life forms. And who is to say that life has to be water and carbon-based? The universe is a rather large place for such a narrow, human-centric view of what life is supposed to be.
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- Searching with such interest for planets as habitable as ours surely makes us think twice about trashing Earth-- the only home we are sure of having.
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- NEWSBREAK....I heard they welcome illegal alliens on this new planet.
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