Proposed name for planet: Plan B

September 29, 2010 4:22 PM

They found an Earth-like planet. Yay! But pack a lot of stuff, as it's twenty light years away.

Oh, there may already be life on it. And its in the Goldilocks zone. So prepare to meet our alien ursine overlords?

posted by angrycat (12 comments total)

ah, double. please delete with the force of a fiery god
posted by angrycat at 4:23 PM on September 29, 2010

Wow! Two in one day!
posted by GuyZero at 4:23 PM on September 29, 2010 [2 favorites]

Is it orbiting a binary star?
posted by Joe Beese at 4:26 PM on September 29, 2010 [2 favorites]

I guess new planets give me a happy which leads to bad metafilter form. Sorry.
posted by angrycat at 4:28 PM on September 29, 2010

"It's called Gliese 581g"

Quick - let's send them earth's finest brand marketing experts!
posted by rongorongo at 4:28 PM on September 29, 2010 [2 favorites]

Quick - let's send them earth's finest brand marketing experts!

And telephone sanitizers and politicians!
posted by furiousxgeorge at 4:29 PM on September 29, 2010

I've learned one fact today: the scientific term for not-too-far and not-too-near to a star is "the goldilocks zone." That is all.
posted by filthy light thief at 4:31 PM on September 29, 2010

Is this an internet reconstruction of Moon? Because doubles are creepy...
posted by djgh at 4:33 PM on September 29, 2010

20 light years?! By Jove, it's only 3 posts away!
posted by battleshipkropotkin at 4:33 PM on September 29, 2010

Earth like planets are a dime a dozen now it seems.
posted by benzenedream at 4:37 PM on September 29, 2010

That's it! I'm turning this spaceship around if you kids don't keep it down!
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 4:40 PM on September 29, 2010

So is this the post we can move to if we make the first one uninhabitable?
posted by m@f at 4:51 PM on September 29, 2010 [1 favorite]