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Earth to...Earth? Are you there?

Posted by Hemos on from the are-you-there-god?-it's-me,-margaret dept.

jasamaman writes "So far all the planets found outside our solar system have been gas giants. So they are not habitable, and couldn't really hold life as we know it. But "planet hunter" David Charbonneau is looking for another planet just like Earth, and claims that astronomers are "very close"."

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  1. Another earth - why not send Katz? by monsterzero2002 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Send Jonathan Katz to this alternate planet. Actually ask Katz about it. I'm sure he knows eactly where they all are. He knows practically everything it seems.