The good news: it has an average temperature of between 0-40 degrees celsius, and probably has liquid water on the surface. It is, they say, the most Earth-like planet ever discovered.
The bad news: the scientists who discovered the planet, which is outside our solar system, also note the aliens appear to be rude, burning cars cover the surface of the planet, and marauding “wine activists” are setting fire to grocery stores.
Oops, I’m sorry, that’s the other thing in outer space called “France.” My bad.
New ‘super-Earth’ found in space
Astronomers have found the most Earth-like planet outside our Solar System to date, a world which could have water running on its surface…They say the benign temperatures on the planet mean any water there could exist in liquid form, and this raises the chances it could also harbour life.
“We have estimated that the mean temperature of this ‘super-Earth’ lies between 0 and 40 degrees Celsius, and water would thus be liquid,” explained Stephane Udry of the Geneva Observatory, lead author of the scientific paper reporting the result…
Commenting on the discovery, Alison Boyle, the curator of astronomy at London’s Science Museum, said: “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.
“It’s 20 light-years away and so we won’t be going there anytime soon, but with new kinds of propulsion technology that could change in the future. And obviously we’ll be training some powerful telescopes on it to see what we can see,” she told BBC News.
Hot Dang! My bags are packed. Where do I book passage on the Mayflower 2?
What? No global warming noticed there, too?
It must be uninhabited then.
Let’s shoot all the leftists up there and leave this beautiful country to the sane.
Taken from AFP.com:
The new planet is 14 times closer to Gliese 581 than the Earth is to the Sun. But because Gliese 581 is so cool, the planet is not scorched by solar radiation. It zips around the star at express speed, making just 13 days to complete an orbit.
Could you imagine if our year was only 13 days?
Additionally,
Two years ago, the same ESO team found a Neptune-sized planet around Gliese 581, and their observations that time gave them a hint that a smaller planet, closer to Earth in size, might also encircle the star.
Not only did they find the “super-Earth”, they also found indications of another planet, eight times the size of Earth, that completes an orbit in 84 days — a discovery that makes Gliese 581 “quite a remarkable system,” ESO said.
I’d say that we should send the french over (just put them in cryo, their manipulative leaders bodies naturally opporate at VERY low internal temperture [its what happens when you sell your soul for power, Hillary has it too] and their footsoldiers are too hopped up on hate to even feel it, and send them in that spaceship all the moonbats think is trying to control them), but then I wouldn’t want to foist that burden off on our decendants about 120 years down the line, of course general laziness and apathy could have killed the mall off by then
As soon as the Earthlings show up on this planet their only comment will be – “There goes the neighborhood”.