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Re:'Second Earth' found, 20 light years away by DaniFong on Tuesday October 16, 2007 @08:51PM (#68848)
That's crazy. I used to think if anything like this happened, I'd be one of the first to be aware. I guess not. O.o
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Re:'Second Earth' found, 20 light years away by npk on Tuesday October 16, 2007 @10:12PM (#68882)
Well,

To be fair, there's a huge PR machine behind these kinds of discoveries. In other words, there's fuzz associated with a planet being an "earth analog." There will be more and more "earth like" planets discovered in the future.

I mean, we've only discovered 212 extra-solar planets so there's plenty more to find :)

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