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More on the Waterworld Goldilocks Planet
goldilocksmission writes with this snippet from Goldilocks Mission: "News spread recently about a super-earth-sized planet that has been recently discovered to contain one of the most essential compounds for life to exist in the universe: water. ... GJ1214b is a massive planet that can house about six earths and is about forty light-years away from us. ... The significant discovery leap of detecting Gliese 581d to the more goldilocks planet oriented GJ1214b is a testament to the advances in the technology of detecting earth-like exoplanets."
I thought it was going to say beer.
Orwell: "In a Time of Universal Deceit, telling the Truth is a Revolutionary Act"
I don't get the Goldilocks reference. Is it because this planet is "just right"? If so, shouldn't it be called the Baby Bear planet?
If you find a baby bear planet you're probably about to be mauled by a mama bear planet.
You can't take the sky from me...
Maybe it's because like Goldilocks, we'll go in and still all of their resources.
How did they get fuel for the fricking jet skis?
This KoolAid is juuusssst right.
Peeing into a Mr. Coffee shouldn't have yielded drinkable water either.
I was hoping to read about a planet full of blond beauties in bikinis
Peeing into a Mr. Coffee shouldn't have yielded drinkable water either.
Evidently you've never woken up the morning after a frat party.
Have gnu, will travel.
The real question on everyone's mind is when can we start having sex with the exotic natives?
There should totally be an x-prize for discovering a beer planet.
With six times the mass of earth and subsequently higher gravity, any bi-pedal life from that evolves there will most certianly be able to kick your average human's ass.
UFC will never be the same.
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
I was half expecting Kevin Costner with long blonde hair.