Frozen super-Earth discovered six light-years away

CNN ^ | November 14, 2018 | Ashley Strickland,

[crusher2013]

Hope you brought enough fuel for mid course corrections.

[treetopsandroofs]

I do like the idea of shotgunning sensor cards out there, but they’re still going to have to achieve greater speed.

[treetopsandroofs]

“I do like the idea of shotgunning sensor cards out there, but they’re still going to have to achieve greater speed.”

Hmm, perhaps a carbon nanotube multi-charge cannon.

[metmom]

Who needs to go six light years?

I just have to look out the kitchen window.

[Oscar in Batangas]

hey algore:

See what happens when you mess around with global warming?
Now, send back those $100’s millions you filched.

...and the Nobel prize too while you’re at it.

[TheNext]

Darn. My ancestor relatives used to live on that dying planet. I told them that global cooling will kill them off.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks fmdj. I'd like 'em to find one with a year-round climate more like San Luis Opisbo.

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[Wuli]

There is NOTHING in the data presented that warrants the title of the article referring to the planet as a “Frozen ‘Super Earth’ “.

One mere point of data, that of a planet being in a zone, relative to the distance from a solar system’s star, which hints that water - if it is even present - would be frozen on a that planet, is NOT justification to even call the planet “Earth like” much less a “Frozen Super Earth”.

Being truly Earth like requires numerous points of data, not one, and not even a handful; but many.

These titles only prove how UNSCIENTIFIC are so many so-called “science” publications.

[SunkenCiv]

• Barnard's Star - Wikipedia
• Peter van de Kamp - Wikipedia

[tet68]

If it still has a magnetic field, molten core and some atmosphere it is possible, just a lot of hard work.

Heck, all it would take are enough SUVs.
It’ll warm right up. /s

[SunkenCiv]

Scientists Are ‘99 Percent’ Sure There’s a Huge Exoplanet Very Close to Our Solar System
By Brandon Specktor, Senior Writer | November 14, 2018 01:46pm ET
https://www.livescience.com/64089-new-super-earth-discovered-at-closest-star.html