New Planet: Another Earth discovered by scientists?

COURTESY: NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
R. Paul Butler, Planet co-discoverer
Steve Vogt, Planet co-discoverer

Astronomers have announced they have discovered an earth like planet that could support the crucial conditions needed for life to exist. The new planet sits directly in the middle of what is referred to as the habitable or Goldilocks zone (Gliese 581 g), unlike any of the nearly 500 other planets astronomers have found outside Earth's solar system. It also is in Earth's galactic neighbourhood, suggesting that plenty of Earth-like planets circle other stars. Astronomers say the planet is neither too far from its star, not too close and could contain liquid water.

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[Predictable1]

@Bfox1850 why not? there are billions and billions of planets... we're just microorganisms in the universe.. so if we move from here, absolutely nothing would be affected... just our very tiny life.

[MyCrysisman]

hahahahahahaha if i would be one of the first proud citizen to live their the first thing i would do is find oil

[Keneen45]

@silentpride23 No

[silentpride23]

if there is another earth can i destroy this one?

[MyCrysisman]

@jester17282 it was a joke ....don't you get it

[jester17282]

@MyCrysisman to produce a vast amount crude oil there would of had to been major life cycle organisms on the planet like the dinosaurs of earth . . the break down of the skeletal remains on land or in the ocean then produces an algae that then breaks down and settles on the bottom of the ocean floors to break down even more and produce the primordial goop that we now no as crude oil. it takes millions of years to produce it and as we all know only a few hundred years to use it all

[MrMacho109]

i want old earth!!! not new earthh!!!!!!

[AlysonHunter19]

its almost the end of the world god is coming soon ! (: <3

[hellohello4225]

But in keeping with his promise we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, the home of righteousness.

2 PETER 3:13

[hotpocketpoison]

@Predictable1 hell, there are hundreds of billions of GALAXIES! each containing hundreds of billions of star systems, each containing hundreds of planets and moons that could possibly harbor life. there are probably hundreds of planets and moons that harbor life in our galaxy ALONE! not counting the other several hundred billion. i have no doubt we are not alone.

[AdriansPunk]

The first thing I would do is to wank straight into the new virgin earth.

[Sledge00000]

oh sweat...lets invade them and take their oil :)