Scientists find most Earth-like planet yet – CNN.com
I mean, it’s like saying I’m like Brad Pitt because we’re both humanoid bipeds and all the other comparisons are to trees. This planet is five times Earth’s mass, with 1.6 times the surface gravity, it orbits a red dwarf, and is tidally locked — that is, it always has the same face to its sun. I seriously doubt that complex life could exist on the surface of a tidally locked planet.
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e. nonee moose // April 25, 2007 at 6:31 pm
1.6 times the surface gravity
So much for colonizing *that* planet…
Michael Bowen // April 25, 2007 at 6:37 pm
Wow… I can’t believe you blackballed my pseudonym… I was rather enjoying it, thankyouverymuch.
Mac Thomason // April 25, 2007 at 6:50 pm
I didn’t. I fished them out of the spam filter.
Paul // April 25, 2007 at 7:29 pm
First they find kryptonite, now they find a habitable planet orbiting a red star.
Time to look up in the sky…
walt moffett // April 25, 2007 at 8:09 pm
I believe General Zod is trying the Ballot box this time around.