[In response to the confirmation of a solid planet found orbiting another star, rather than the gas giants they usually find]
so... it's like way hotter, and 'rocky', covered in liquid lava... and almost 2x bigger than this planet.
how exactly is it "Earthlike"
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HAH, these people are priceless. From further down
"Honestly, people. A planet is not "earthlike" until it has seven continents, seven seas, green trees, and humans on it. Oh wait. That isn't going to happen. God only made one of us."
No you ignorant twit, give it a few billion years to cool off and the water vapor will create oceans, lakes and rivers, and with cosmig good luck, some form of life will start.
Yes, earthlike because it iss a rocky planet, not a gas giant. That seems pretty obvious.
How dumb of you? Gotta be somewhere near 100%.
Yes, and if you drink a big bottle of poison right now, you can get to heaven BEFORE the rapture. I mean, let's face it, you've all been waiting so long. Don't hold back, just suicide. Just make sure you do it right, though - or I'll have to visit you and go Terry Schiavo on your worthless ass.
"I can't wait until we find life on another planet, because all of the Fundie fantasies will come crashing down in a big heap at that very instant. Bring it on, I say!"
Pfft, are you kidding me? The second we find life, the fundies will start pointing to a bible passage (pick a passage, any passage) and claim that the bible predicted this, and therefore it PROVES the bible correct.
so... it's like way hotter, and 'rocky', covered in liquid lava... and almost 2x bigger than this planet.
After reading that line I thought for sure that he was going to say that scientists had really found the location of hell.
Mars is Earth-like. It's a rocky planet with an atmosphere, the possibility of liquid water, and its highest mountain is a shield volcano- Olympus Mons. Earth's highest (measured from the base) is Mauna Loa, also a shield volcano.
The methods used for detecting planets around other stars differ. This new method has demonstrated the existence of a large, rocky planet close to its parent star; earlier methods only uncovered the existence of heavier gas giants. Future methods of detection may uncover truly earth-like planets.
It's all a work in progress, and given that it's only been going on for about fifteen years it's progressing rather well.
Your rocks and life point is empty. This particular planet is too close to its sun to stand any significant chance of producing an environment conducive to life as we know it, but then I don't imagine you bothered reading that far into whatever article it was you got your ideas from.
The variety is showing up, this could mean more suns carry varied planets then origionally thought. Less than thirty years ago they thought our solar system was relatively unique and that most suns showed little sign of multiple planets. Now it's encoraging to see that it's more common to have multiple planets which increases the odds of Earth-like ones.
That, plus the earlier sightings of gas giants as they're important for cleaning up stellar dust and absorbing some larger debris as well.
Earth-like is becoming much more likely than previously thought which shakes your faith
It's a planet...not a gas giant...therefore, it is somewhat Earthlike. Now, its not EXACTLY Earth (meaning seas, animals & continents). Nobody said it was. But I'm sure, given time, we'll find an actual planet that orbits a star & supports life. And when we do, I'm going to laugh my ass off at all the confused Fundie heads exploding.
Let me paraphrase a Greek philosopher whom I can't recall the name right now (great scholarship, I know!):
Given the astonishing immensity of the universe, the idea life only appeared here makes as much sense as stating a whole field of wheat will produce a single grain.
It's "earthlike" in the sense that it's a rocky, terrestrial world like ones in our own solar system, with a distinct solid surface and roughly comparable in size to our own world. By those criteria, Venus in our own solar system is "earthlike." If you stretch it just a bit, it also covers Mars and Mercury.
Terrestrial planets are very, very small; in even the very largest and most powerful planets we currently have or are likely to have in the near future, even a planet larger than Jupiter is smaller than an individual pixel. A rocky planet is hundreds of times smaller than THAT. Trying to detect a rocky body in orbit around a star in another solar system is like trying to photograph the flame of a birthday candle in California located one a meter away from a massive bonfire...while you're in New York. That we can do it at all is a technological and scientific achievement on a par with the construction of the Great Pyramids and the discovery of fire itself. And naturally it's lost on you.
You don't have even the vaguest conception of how difficult an achievement that was, or what it represents, and so you dismiss it out of hand. That's not only sad, it's horrifying--more than you could possibly comprehend.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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