New Earth-Like Planet Found!

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Astronomers have confirmed the existence of an Earth-like planet in the "habitable zone" around a star not unlike our own.

The planet, Kepler 22-b, lies about 600 light-years away and is about 2.4 times the size of Earth, and has a temperature of about 22C.

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I know what you're saying, "But Abs, this is not a suitable show topic! There's nothing funny about this, this doesn't belong on a comedy podcast!"
But I think this is a pretty cool story, and if the guys pick it up, I know they can do something funny with it. Also it's pretty cool if we get our shit together concerning NASA and actually check this out further, but I don't think that's going to happen.

I'm not going to lie, I've been playing a lot of Mass Effect lately and this is ridiculously timely. I want to have galactic adventures too...

[Stronghold]

Ok so they found it. So what? Or, what now? They'll charge an exorbitant amount of money if anyone wanted to live on it in the next couple decades or so.

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Ok so they found it. So what? Or, what now? They'll charge an exorbitant amount of money if anyone wanted to live on it in the next couple decades or so.

Exactly. It still excites my outer electron shell though, to know there's an Earth-like planet out there. I'm a space-optimist. Spacoptimist.

[Joe Maggs]

Nobody is living on a planet 600 light-years away in the next few decades. lol. pretty interesting though

[Wiseacre]

It still excites my outer electron shell

I'm using this from here on in.

[Deco]

Nobody is living on a planet 600 light-years away in the next few decades.

Yeah, seems more like it would take something like 600 years, assuming we were traveling at the speed of light.

More likely: this discovery will not affect anything ever

[Bill Cosby X]

...Whatever, man.

[Hasher]

I'd give like...1000$ to go live there

[Miles]

I wouldn't pay anything...because there's nothing there.

[Hasher]

I wouldn't pay anything...because there's nothing there.

If sci-fi has taught me anything, any alien planet either has terrible monsters or hot alien babes who look like humans but are green or have a tail or something. I am hoping for babes.

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If sci-fi has taught me anything, any alien planet either has terrible monsters or hot alien babes who look like humans but are green or have a tail or something. I am hoping for babes.

Babes.... or turians.

Please let there be turians.

[WilmoTheBear]

There has already been shit tons of news like this, nothing new or special.

[Funky Biscuits]

There has already been shit tons of news like this, nothing new or special.

Yep if a non-mod posted this it'd be wayyyyy outta here :-|

[IzzyB]

think about it. we would need to get something to travel at the speed of light. then we'd need to get something to travel at the speed of light and not fall apart in the acceleration or deceleration. then we'd need to be able to use that something to hold humans without, again, dying from the acceleration and deceleration. then, it would still take 600 years to get there. so we'd have to invent some kind of stasis before we even get that far.
it's cute, but i think humans are just going to go extinct before we colonize anything outside the solar system. frankly, i think it would be easier to make the nearby planets (the ones that take months rather than years to get to, e.g. mars and venus) inhabitable than to deal with all that intergalactic mess.

i think about things when i'm supposed to be doing things

[Abstractions]

Yep if a non-mod posted this it'd be wayyyyy outta here :-|

Eh, I thought it was interesting, so I brought it here. *shrug*

And I don't delete any posts but spam posts, brah. I'm no hater.