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Two potentially life-friendly planets found orbiting a nearby star
National Geographic ^ | June 18, 2019 | Nadia Drake

Posted on 06/18/2019 3:30:41 PM PDT by EdnaMode

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To: Osage Orange

Good idea! I’ll help them pack their bags. :D


21 posted on 06/18/2019 4:10:35 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: max americana

That would be awesome. :D


22 posted on 06/18/2019 4:12:00 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: EdnaMode

So, no abortion there?


23 posted on 06/18/2019 4:13:20 PM PDT by fruser1
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To: equaviator

“Would it help if I got out and pushed.”


24 posted on 06/18/2019 4:15:02 PM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: LIConFem

Life exists everywhere on earth so I would assume if a planet can sustain life, life exists there.


25 posted on 06/18/2019 4:15:30 PM PDT by captain_dave
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To: TexasGurl24

It’s funny but warp drive and weaponry are about the only tech Ent and TOS have that we havent matched.


26 posted on 06/18/2019 4:18:38 PM PDT by xkaydet65
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To: captain_dave
Life exists everywhere on earth so I would assume if a planet can sustain life, life exists there.

It seems logical that when God created the heavens and the earth, he put life everywhere it could thrive.

27 posted on 06/18/2019 4:19:41 PM PDT by aimhigh (THIS is His commandment . . . . 1 John 3:23)
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To: EdnaMode

A lot of factors against life as we know it within the solar system of a red dwarf.


28 posted on 06/18/2019 4:22:31 PM PDT by fso301
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To: SunkenCiv

*ping*


29 posted on 06/18/2019 4:25:51 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Who will think of the gerbils ? Just say no to Buttgiggity !)
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To: EdnaMode

“Just hope they don’t have global warming there.”

No matter what climate they have it’ll be labeled ‘catastrophic’ and the only solution to the non-problem will be the immediate enforcement of global socialism on earth.


30 posted on 06/18/2019 4:26:15 PM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
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To: EdnaMode

The planets Ork and Mongo


31 posted on 06/18/2019 4:26:22 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: BenLurkin

Soundgarden’s Star will have to be a black hole.


32 posted on 06/18/2019 4:27:03 PM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
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To: captain_dave

“Nearby”??? Just a mere 72,000,000,000,000,000 (72 trillion) miles away. You could get there in a year if you went approximately seven billion two hundred million miles per hour. You could get there in one thousand years if you went seven million two hundred thousand miles per hour. I think it is just better to have cool one on the patio and live your life on earth.


33 posted on 06/18/2019 4:28:02 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: EdnaMode

One planet is Republican and the other one is Democrat. That’s why they have survived for 8 billion years.


34 posted on 06/18/2019 4:31:53 PM PDT by centurion316
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To: xenia

Not sure I understand. You don’t think that God could have built evolutionary processes into His plan?


35 posted on 06/18/2019 4:33:48 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it")
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To: Carl Vehse

Thanks for the post.

The number of variables that constitute “earth like”, as in “life as we know it” is not small. These articles always pick up on a mere few “similarities” and propagate the whole as “earth like”.

I am NOT in favor of public funding for such searches at this time in human history. There will be way more than enought time when we have graduated to at least supported human-exploration (”manned flights”) of most of our own solar system. By then - a long way off - our technology MIGHT be ready for travel beyond our own sun’s orbit. ONLY when we are that capable will such “earth like” planet information be materially relevant. There are more immdiate needs in terms of public funding for space exploration, by telescopes or otherwise.


36 posted on 06/18/2019 4:35:39 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: Carl Vehse

I have a problem with the assumption that ‘life’ needs to be ‘human’ life, or ‘life’ as we find on Earth.

There could be kinds of Life out there that we can’t even conceive of - even intelligent life - with which God chose to fill that particular space.


37 posted on 06/18/2019 4:36:53 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it")
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To: xenia

You’re the first person I’ve ever heard deny same-species evolution. Remarkable.


38 posted on 06/18/2019 4:42:00 PM PDT by LanaTurnerOverdrive ("I've done things in my life I'm not proud of. And the things I am proud of are disgusting.")
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To: centurion316; SunkenCiv

I remember a science fiction novel like that which I read back in the 1980s. The author was H. Beam Piper, but alas, I don’t remember the title. In it, he had two earthlike worlds around the same star. One world, mostly ocean, he called Thalassa, and it developed a collectivist society. The other planet, a desert world. was named Hetaira and has a libertarian-conservative society. When their civilizations met, they couldn’t get along, and eventually destroyed each other other through nuclear war, leaving only ruins for our descendants to find at a later date.


39 posted on 06/18/2019 4:44:51 PM PDT by Berosus (I wish I had as much faith in God as liberals have in government.)
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To: xenia
Right..... Evolution is absolute nonsense

Yes it is nonsense. The masses have caught on to this nonsense so the powers that be are changing to....We were seeded by aliens.
40 posted on 06/18/2019 4:46:55 PM PDT by ssfromla
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