Another Earth

I just read this from Yahoo news. Astronomers on a verge of finding many earth. Not just one but many. Some of them are even larger than our earth. For those of you who is a Star Trek fan. You might be familiar with an "M class planet". It is planet which is almost the same as our earth. Same atmosphere, soil, ky, water and almost the same vegetation. For the longest time I was thinking of that science fiction theory. With a warp drive capability, we could go to a nearby solar system that has the same earth as we know it.

If just in case that is possible. I only hope that we would learn from our past and not screw this new planet, like what we are doing today. Coz in the back of my mind, there is this small voice that is saying "Oh great, we have found a new Earth to pollute."

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Astronomers on Verge of Finding Earth's Twin

Planet hunters say it's just a matter of time before they lasso Earth's twin, which almost surely is hiding somewhere in our star-studded galaxy.

Momentum is building: Just last week, astronomers announced they had discovered three super-Earths — worlds more massive than ours but small enough to most likely be rocky — orbiting a single star. And dozens of other worlds suspected of having masses in that same range were found around other stars.

"Being able to find three Earth-mass planets around a single star really makes the point that not only may many stars have one Earth, but they may very well have a couple of Earths," said Alan Boss, a planet formation theorist at the Carnegie Institution of Washington in Washington, D.C.�

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