FIRST EVER EARTH-SIZED PLANET ORBITING A SUN-LIKE STAR HAS BEEN DISCOVERED LURKING IN OUR SOLAR BACK YARD

The Debrief ^ | JANUARY 15, 2024 | CHRISTOPHER PLAIN

[A Formerly Proud Canadian]

As opposed to Klingons?

[Peter ODonnell]

Phrases to know if you visit ...

happy new year

hot enough for you?

ever been to the dark side?

where can I get a good pair of sunglasses?

[Theophilus]

Dat you Venus?

[minnesota_bound]

#7 I was watching Stargate SG-1 and the starship Prometheus received a distress call from another ship. It was 50 light years away and it only took 20 minutes to get there.....

[Bullish]

Do they take Visa?

[fso301]

Tidally locked, dayside temperatures ~ 1500K.

[Getready]

More like eternal hell on the star facing side..the planet doesn’t rotate on its axis. Surface must have molten metal rivers. Would be interesting to see if high temp computer chips evolve outta’ that. Could inform us as how to make our computer chips work at very high temps. No?

[Mark17]

I was watching Stargate SG-1 and the starship Prometheus received a distress call from another ship. It was 50 light years away and it only took 20 minutes to get there.....

Only 20 minutes? Wow. Those Stargate people must have some of that super duper high falutin 25 G communications equipment, to be able receive a signal from that distance.

[Red Badger]

For decades They thought Mercury was tidally locked. It isn’t..................

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

But it’s a dry heat.

[BlackbirdSST]

“only 73 light years away.”

Road trip! Who has the beer?

[Qwapisking]

with an orbital period that short maybe political season will pass more quickly.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Nah, the first two essential phrases one must master when visiting any new place are:
1. Two beers, please.
2. Where is the bathroom?

[adorno]

First there was Earth.

Then came the Lurker planet.

Lurkers are the aliens that we’ve seen (but not really seen), and they just lurk.

[alstewartfan]

As another poster states, Venus is also in this category. So, at best this is humdrum news. The godless wish to steer people into thinking that earth is nothing special.

[sergeantdave]

And in 1990 all the government-brainwashed skeptics in academia and the media insisted there were no planets orbiting other stars.

https://www.schoolsobservatory.org/learn/astro/exoplanets/history

Settled science is never settled.

[NorthMountain]

And in 1990 all the government-brainwashed skeptics in academia and the media insisted there were no planets orbiting other stars.

And on the other side of the fence was a critical mass of scientists with enough clout to get various exoplanet searches funded, equipment built, observations made, and papers published.

[only1percent]

That is absolutely not true. The vast majority of astronomers have always assumed that planets were a regular feature of single-star systems. Whether the prevalence was 1% or 99% or something in between wasn’t agreed, but that would still means trillions of planetary systems in the observable universe.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Red Badger.

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