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Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Life beyond Earth (20 light years to be precise)

scientests have found another dwarf planet. unlike othe dwarf planets this one has a lot to do with us. This planets happenes to have an enviroment just like ours. It temperature ranges from 32 degrees to 104 degrees fahrenheit. these temperatures are ideal for water and where there is water there is life. Scientests aren't sure that there is life on this new planet but it would be a great spot for the human race. Too bad it is 20 years away (and thats traveling at light speed)

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9796321

3 comments:

Marek Bennett said...

Wow! That's an amazing story. True, the astronomers are only making hypotheses based on models of stars and planet formation, but this is the kind of discovery that can change our ideas about the universe and our (human's) place in it!

Go, liquid water! Yay!

-- Marek

Noah said...

ziggy i think that you blogg was great! noah

kelsey said...

This is really cool! I can't believe the planet is out of our solar system. I haven't heard about any other dwarf planets though.