Posted on 02/05/2018 1:59:12 PM PST by Red Badger
This means that they are rocky like Earth or Mars, not gaseous like Uranus...........nuff said!
Oh, only 39 LY. Great, let me know when we can travel at about 50LY/Y. I could dig a trip of 9 months or so to get there!
And the seven planets are named Hops, Malt, Yeast, and Get! In! My! Belly!
Saying “earth-sized” and their childish use of “earth-like”, based on so few particular is insulting to any “scientific” claim these spheres are “like Earth”.
It is no better than saying they are “earth like” merely because they are planets orbiting a star. It takes dozens of other attributes, besides being “rocky” to ACTUALLY be like Earth.
When actual carbon-based water-oxgyen based life is found on some planet somewhere, then it can be said to be “earth like” in the most essential sense. Until then “pseudo” science is grasping at straws and selling ads on web pages; not much else.
It was actually childish of you to rant about the appropriate term “Earth like”. Earth is not just about your definition of life. That’s childishly retarded.
If it is not about life, then what is “earth like” about in any meaningful sense to humans, and any science making “earth-like” claims. “Science” has become dominated by childish populism, throwing out terms to give certain impressions of their meaning that they do not in fact mean.
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