NASA's Kepler finds Earth-like planet: Just about right for life

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A newly discovered planet is eerily similar to Earth and is sitting outside our solar system in what seems to be the ideal place for life, except for one hitch. It's a bit too big.
A newly discovered planet is eerily similar to Earth and is sitting outside our solar system in what seems to be the ideal place for life, except for one hitch. It's a bit too big.

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12 Dec 2011 10:08a.m.

TERRY wrote:

lanet prohibits life as we know it due to gravitational forces , i bet its far from an earth like planet due ti its size it way bigger than earth , sorry to burst your bubbles . wicked man what was your plan desroy the earth with your knowledge then go to another planet till you destroy that planet .

06 Dec 2011 10:49p.m.

johnmillan wrote:

John Key may start selling some of our assets too them out there.

06 Dec 2011 10:24p.m.

Martin wrote:

Kind of find it quite mesmerizing that when we look at the night sky, that we are actually looking at the past

06 Dec 2011 09:19p.m.

Hamish wrote:

Awsome, but how do they know the temp at such distances?
Is it just an estimate based on distance from its star and estimated heat out-put from said star?

06 Dec 2011 11:57a.m.

madness wrote:

Now humans may have somewhere else to go when they finish trashing this planet. Very exciting find as well. Maybe there is a whole double universe out there waiting to be found. This life is getting freakier and freakier isn't it?
Maybe we are just living in a dream and the other planet is where we came from...............worth a thought.

06 Dec 2011 09:51a.m.

LB wrote:

It will be Fahrenheit

06 Dec 2011 09:27a.m.

John wrote:

NASA scientists so it would be Celsius (22 degrees roughly). I think it's quite an exciting find, send some radio waves that way. I'm more curious about the distance though. They could be staring at a million years ago or something.

06 Dec 2011 09:00a.m.

Brook wrote:

72deg Celsius or Farenheight?