Newfound Planet Has Earth-Like Orbit

Raver32 writes with a link to the Space.com site, and an article discussing an extra-solar planet that looks a lot like ours from a distance. At least, its orbit does. The planet is located about 300 light years away, in the constellation Perseus. It circles its giant red star every 360 days and was discovered by 'looking for wobble', the shift in a star's movement that hints at orbiting planets. "The discovery could help astronomers understand what will happen to our sun's brood of planets when it exhausts its store of hydrogen fuel and its outer envelope begins to swell. When that happens in an estimated 5 billion years, our sun will be so big that it will engulf the inner planets and most likely Earth. But long before that happens, life on our planet will have perished and its seas will have boiled away."

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Re:What are we learning here?

[Daniel Dvorkin]

Why do we care?

You are welcome not to care, of course. Those of us who do care think this is pretty damn cool.

Here's my question: if you don't care, why did you bother to read and comment on the story? There's lots of stuff on /. I don't care about -- pretty much the whole Games section, f'rinstance. Instead making snarky posts in stories about World Of Bloodshed XVII: Ultimate Pixelated Flying Guts Edition about how much I don't care, I just don't bother to read those stories. Gamers who do care, of course, discuss the games in those stories. I see no downside.

Now, you imagination-crippled pathetic mindless worm, go back to whatever sad little things you care about.