Astronomers find the most earth-like planet to date: "Of all the planets we've found around other stars, this is the one that looks as though it might have the right ingredients for life."
I was going to make some wise-acre remark about "Class M planet", a Star Trek term, but then I noticed in the article that they used the scientific term "Goldilocks zone". I can't top that.
From the best podcast series ever, an episode that discusses what a planet may need for life.
(check out the science archives to listen in to chatty conversations, some that involve Roger Penrose and other physicists that just call him Roger). (no one chatters as brilliantly as Oxford and Cambridge scientists on the BBC)
let's go trash it.
Only 20 light years away.
Road trip!
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- jim 4-25-2007 8:00 pm
I was going to make some wise-acre remark about "Class M planet", a Star Trek term, but then I noticed in the article that they used the scientific term "Goldilocks zone". I can't top that.
- mark 4-25-2007 9:13 pm [add a comment]
From the best podcast series ever, an episode that discusses what a planet may need for life.
(check out the science archives to listen in to chatty conversations, some that involve Roger Penrose and other physicists that just call him Roger). (no one chatters as brilliantly as Oxford and Cambridge scientists on the BBC)
- L.M. 4-25-2007 9:17 pm [add a comment]
let's go trash it.
- steve 4-26-2007 6:45 am [add a comment]
Only 20 light years away.
Road trip!
- mark 4-26-2007 8:56 am [add a comment]