I just wish these writers wouldn’t use the term “New Earth” or “Earthlike”. Science is taking a beating because of the climate scam and people read a title like that then find that the article mentions anything but earthlike planets and the scientists get the blame.
According to planetquest the number of planets found stands at 403 and the number of eartlike planets is listed at 0.
Caprica and Kobol were earthlike planets.
Hate to say it, but that National Geographic article was 90% pablum. The magazine is overproduced — pictures too beautiful and writing too slick. It acts like it’s a great magazine. It’s stuck on itself. Also it shoves a lot of environmental stuff at us.
One more thing about National Geographic. Let’s see when they report on climategate, or even report that new analysis of the data shows reduced evidence of a warming trend.
As an act of “good faith” I say we send all the Muslims to the first earth-like planet we find. There they can murder and rape and blow up anyone and everyone they wish. The rest of us here on Earth can sleep easier knowing they are having the times of their lives billions of years away from us.
Thanks KD for the topic and ping, this is a reminder to myself to ping the X-Planets list.