just so you all know……. if at any point in my lifetime the opportunity arises for me to go to those new planets………. im gone. especially if i have to be cryogenically frozen for a hundred years
A bumper crop of Earth-size planets huddled around an ultra-cool, red dwarf star could be little more than chunks of rock blasted by radiation, or cloud-covered worlds as broiling hot as Venus.
Or they could harbor exotic lifeforms, thriving under skies of ruddy twilight.
Scientists are pondering the possibilities after this week’s announcement: the discovery of seven worlds orbiting a small, cool star some 40 light-years away, all of them in the ballpark of our home planet in terms of their heft (mass) and size (diameter). Three of the planets reside in the “habitable zone” around their star, TRAPPIST-1, where calculations suggest that conditions might be right for liquid water to exist on their surfaces—though follow-up observations are needed to be sure.
If Earth 2 is one of them, I bet they’re desperately trying to paddle their planet further away from us.
good one Neil we’re gonna start an interplanetary war after the aliens discover we named their planet Dopey
mm I’m gonna enjoy some nice christian homophobe tears on my popcorn when I go see this movie for the 8th time
