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NASA Discovers a Near Earth Size Planet - a comfy 72 degrees F

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Watson, Crick & A Twist
No kidding, NASA's Kepler planet hunting telescope hit pay dirt.
NASA has found a new planet outside Earth's solar system that is eerily similar to Earth in important aspects.

Scientists say the temperature on the surface of the planet, known as Kepler-22b, is about a comfy 72 degrees (22 Celsius). Its star could almost be a twin of Earth's sun. It probably has water and land.
It was found in the middle of the habitable zone, making it the best potential target for life.
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The planet is an estimated 2.4 times the size of earth - making gravity likely higher than terra firma. Still, when we totally foul up our digs here, there is at least one escape route ...
However, getting there would take some time: Kepler-22b is about 600 light years away (A light year is the distance light travels in a year, or about 6 trillion miles.)
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far, far away.
 
If only it was the same size as earth. Gravity would be a real problem. Funny that this story comes as some research points to certain unknown subatomic particles being able to travels at speeds greater than light, maybe this research will allow us to develop faster than light ships in the future. E=MC2 is now in question.
 
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sandgk;2058126; said:
far, far away.
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It really does give new meaning to the phrase "In a land far, far away" doesn't it?

Everybody can do simple math here, but here is the breakdown for people who don't feel like doing it. First, a little perspective: the distance from the Earth to the Sun is approximately 93 million miles.

One thousand, thousand = one million
One thousand, million = one billion
one thousand, billion = one trillion
but
one million, billion = one quadrillion!

600 light years is about 3 quadrillion, 600 trillion miles.

Far, far away...
 
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Romanowski;2058421; said:
It really does give new meaning to the phrase "In a land far, far away" doesn't it?

Everybody can do simple math here, but here is the breakdown for people who don't feel like doing it. First, a little perspective: the distance from the Earth to the Sun is approximately 93 million miles.

One thousand, thousand = one million
One thousand, million = one billion
one thousand, billion = one trillion
but
one million, billion = one quadrillion!

600 light years is about 3 quadrillion, 600 trillion miles.

Far, far away...
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Something that we might actually see, and if not us then our children, is the possibility of long stays and even mining of our moon. Some say that how land rights and country rights to our own planet's poles will greatly influence how the global community will react to who has what rights on the moon. But now they get to argue and debate over this new planet.
 
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