the earth-like planet

[rm]

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/space/04/25/habitable.planet.ap/index.html

I love, irrationally, that it's in Libra. And I wonder how many civilizations have risen and ten fallen to nothing there, such that we'll never even know.

Yeah, yeah, I know, but this isn't about science for me, it's about Romance.

Comments

[schpahky.livejournal.com]

That was the best headline I saw across the top of the Metro today. It felt so sci-fi! I'm excited as if I was 12.

[meirion.livejournal.com]

*We* might never know, but I'd love to believe that our descendants would. Although I suppose we'll have doomed ourselves to extinction by then (and who's to say that similar creatures there haven't already done the same?)

It's about Romance for me too, I think.

[heron61.livejournal.com]

The nifty thing is that the galaxy is filled with tiny cool red dwarfs stars like Gliese 581, and according to articles like this, tidally locked planets around M stars can certainly be habitable. It's also only 20 light years away.