NASA sees distant planets that seem ideal for life

[longknife]

April 19, 2013, By SETH BORENSTEIN, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — NASA's planet-hunting telescope has discovered two planets that seem like ideal places for some sort of life to flourish. They are just the right size and in just the right place near their star.

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Makes one wonder, doesn't it?

 

[eots]

good Im moving...this place is nuts

 

[ScienceRocks]

Time to triple nasa's budget! Cut the bases and aid to third world holes in the ground.

 

[Politico]

Nasa has no clue as to whether a planet could support life.

 

[ScienceRocks]

Money spent on space at least has a big return in the advancement of knowledge and technology. What does giving billions to dictators do for us?

 

[eots]

Money spent on space at least has a big return in the advancement of knowledge and technology. What does giving billions to dictators do for us?

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[konradv]

"To make it warm enough for life the planet would need greenhouse gas trapping its star's heat because the star only gives off one-fifth the energy of our sun, but that's something that is likely to happen, Borucki said."

I guess that makes them figments of the eco-progressive imagination, eh?