[KevinDavis]

Pretty soon we find a new home..

[KevinDavis]

[MeganC]

How about WE stay here and let the liberals and etc. go find themselves a Utopia where they can tax themselves into prosperity?

[GeronL]

I once wrote a humor story where habitable planets all became homesteads. Travel to anywhere was instaneous. Planets might be 4345 Elm.

lol.

There was a daily mailbot and everything.

[cripplecreek]

For now I'm stuck with making my own.

[Capt. Tom]

Billions of potentially habitable planets may exist within our galaxy, the Milky Way, raising new prospects that life could exist near Earth, a study has found.

This is good news for Mitt Romney , Glenn Beck, Orin Hatch and Harry Reid. - tom

[Secret Agent Man]

Right. Can’t even get 240,000 miles to the moon anymore.

No spaecraft will make it that far. Cosmic radiation bursts will kill off the crew, or low/no gravity will.

[Vince Ferrer]

These are close enough that we can build telescopes that can see oceans, clouds, icecaps, and vegetation on them if it exists.

[Malone LaVeigh]

I sometimes wonder how broad the definition of “habitable” is. Aside from gravity and atmosphere, how many of these planets can support the agriculture necessary to maintain human life?

[GreenHornet]

Scientists say that where there is water, there also could be life although they add that being in the habitable zone is no guarantee that life has evolved

That's also true here on Earth. For example, Detroit has water.

[Blood of Tyrants]

What good does knowing there are other habitable planets with no way to get to them?

[a fool in paradise]

Why bother looking for them when Obama gutted the manned space program and the rest of America ridiculed Newt’s plan of a Mars/Moon base?

[JoeProBono]

[Beowulf9]

I don’t get why no one seems troubled by ‘30 light years away’.

No one can travel at the speed of light, if you could it would take 30 years, you would have to stop to fuel up...where?

At the price of gas today alone it would be impossible because who could afford it? Certainly not Nasa.

You would have to give up 30 years of your life to just get there and then...start to colonize?

[cookcounty]

Scientists are so weird, what does “hope” have to do with science?

When Scientists start talking about life on other planets, why do they start sounding like a convention of Pentecostals? Desperate for a sign from heaven?

So much emotional investment!

[grey_whiskers]

Yoo-hoo, Quix.

Over here!

(Thanks, KevinDavis)

Cheers!

[Las Vegas Dave]

Of possible interest to the ping list..

[GOPJ]

And yet, there’s not a peep out of any of ‘em...

[wastedyears]

Considering there are that many planets in this galaxy, coupled by the same number of galaxies, I find it completely impossible that we’re not alone in the universe. There are simply far too many planets for none of them to be occupied.

[Moonman62]

And buried at the bottom of the article is why this is little more than attention grabbing hype:

'But red dwarfs are known to be subject to stellar eruptions or flares, which may bathe the planet in X-rays or ultraviolet radiation, and which may make life there less likely.''

Habitability of red dwarf systems

[Excellence]

“In my Father’s house there are many mansions. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you?” [Jn. 14:2] (Rheims, A.D. 1582.)