Planet closely resembling earth found

[wjr]

I thought this was really cool. Had to share.

Link to article

[wjr]

Another article

[bornl33t]

2 things

You need water and atmosphere. I've not seen any mention of the latter and scientist classify Mars as being inhabitable, so calling this one "inhabitable" means "we need money for researching something interesting" aka "the global warming sceme"

[BobTheCow]

Neat tidbit, but sadly I doubt if anything beyond this announcement develops within our lifetimes.

[MoeMag]

2 things

You need water and atmosphere. I've not seen any mention of the latter and scientist classify Mars as being inhabitable, so calling this one "inhabitable" means "we need money for researching something interesting" aka "the global warming sceme"

[rkjunior303]

Sounds like one of the "we're the only people in this universe" god wackos.

[MoeMag]

Sounds like one of the "we're the only people in this universe" god wackos.

Neat tidbit, but sadly I doubt if anything beyond this announcement develops within our lifetimes.

[CaptaiN_JacK]

So they've found this planet using "measurements" of its sun, but when can we see pictures??

As far as we know, it might be all rock and no water looking nothing like the Earth.

[geekwarrior]

Sounds like one of the "we're the only people in this universe" god wackos.

while i disagree with his statement, what does that have anything to do with religion? why is it that atheist feel the need to bash on anything religious at the drop of a hat?

[rkjunior303]

while i disagree with his statement, what does that have anything to do with religion? why is it that atheist feel the need to bash on anything religious at the drop of a hat?

how does that comment make me an athiest?

[warbeak2099]

Nothing religious was even said. Rkjunior's statement was incredibly random.

/back on topic

[geekwarrior]

how does that comment make me an athiest?

the condescending tone, and your post in other threads? you assume, i'll assume.

[geekwarrior]

Nothing religious was even said. Rkjunior's statement was incredibly random.

/back on topic

yes, back on topic

out of curiosity, how the heck do they find out anything about something that far away?

[rkjunior303]

the condescending tone, and your post in other threads? you assume, i'll assume.

so a condescending tone makes me an athiest? and what i post in other threads? i hardly think making fun of soopa makes me one of those.

*edit* and i wasn't calling HIM one of those people, I was just making a general comment about how that sounded like one of those people who still feel like we are the only one out there blahblahblah.

*doubleninjaedit*

they find out by analyzing the wobble the planet exerts onto the star.. as the planet rotates around the star, it pulls the star back and forth making it 'wobble'. given the type of star and the size, they can generally tell rough estimates of mass due to how much wobble.

[geekwarrior]

they find out by analyzing the wobble the planet exerts onto the star.. as the planet rotates around the star, it pulls the star back and forth making it 'wobble'. given the type of star and the size, they can generally tell rough estimates of mass due to how much wobble.

but how can you tell the wobble from that far? is just blows my mind how they are able to do that....pretty cool stuff. hope they will get a glimpse of it now that they know to look for it.

and did anyone see this?

3D sun