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"It's the Holy Grail of exoplanet research to find a planet around a star orbiting at the right distance so it's not too close where it would lose all its water and boil away, and not too far where it would all freeze," Steven Vogt, an astronomer at the University of California, Santa Cruz, told SPACE.com. "It's right smack in the habitable zone — there's no question or discussion about it. It's not on the edge, it's right in there."

Quote (undertow85 @ Feb 2 2012 02:21pm)

Thats pretty cool to bad we can't send a unmanned machine to peep it out 

Quote (undertow85 @ Feb 2 2012 01:21pm)

Thats pretty cool to bad we can't send a unmanned machine to peep it out 

Quote (piddywiffle @ Feb 2 2012 06:42pm)

I'm sure it's within our capacity to do so.

Quote (Wyrmvater @ Feb 2 2012 06:28pm)

not even, I think


22 light years from earth, waaaaaaaaaaaay too far

Quote (cadizzle1392 @ Feb 4 2012 12:55am)

i think scientists are looking in the wrong direction
if there does happen to be other life on other planets, which i dont believe there is however, who's to say the life will be based around carbon and water such as ours.

who knows, maybe life elsewhere could be based on different compounds and elements ..
anyone ever thought of it like this ?

Quote (Subwoofer @ Feb 4 2012 01:59am)

they have to go with what they know. no one would fund a program looking for something we have no idea about. at worst we find planets for future human habitation with the current programs.