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Alien Solar System Much Like Ours

Posted by michael on from the don't-get-your-hopes-up dept.

MrGort writes "Wired News reports that British astronomers say they found the first sun-like star with a giant gas planet in an orbit similar to Jupiter's, which leaves plenty of room for worlds like Earth and Mars. This system is a quick 90 light years away. The similar solar system to ours means that this gas giant could attract most of the debris, allowing smaller planets closer to the sun to develop like ours did!"

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  1. RE: This is not Star Trek by HurlyBurlyMarley · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It's thinking like yours that will that will be the reason it'll take 180 years to get a reply. E=mc2 just means it takes an infinite amount of energy to reach the speed of light, but it leaves the door open for faster speeds, just not equal.

    Thankfully there are people who think outside the bun, like Gerald Feinberg, who introduced Tachyons, faster then light particles. Even Bradbury, Clarke, and Asimov had a few good ideas.

    Also, information can move faster then light in the right conditions. For instance, if we built a long stick to europa or whatever, we could tap out morse code before any light could arrive :)