Scientists discover "New Earth"!

by Nathan Natas 12 Replies latest social current

  • daystar
    daystar

    That's a great find! I can't wait for more data.

    Will this have any impact on religions with a terrestrial-centered worldview, I wonder. Supposing that we eventually find sophisticated life (more sophisticated than brown algae) on Earth2.

    INQ

    The discovery that the earth was not the center of everything caused quite a stir. People were imprisoned, executed... for even hinting at it. With our more secular world today, at least in the West, this will not make nearly as much of an impact. Though, it may make us earthlings a little less special in God's eye, no?

  • IP_SEC
    IP_SEC
    it may make us earthlings a little less special

    what a delightful little morsel to chew.

  • Madame Quixote
    Madame Quixote

    Wow! Fantastic news. Another place for us to eventually figure out how to exploit and destroy when we figure out how to travel at lightspeed without destroying ourselves (if we don't blow up or slowly drown or asphixiate our own planet first). Well, that's the pessimistic take anyway.

    Wonderful news for the advancement of evolutionary ideas about the universe! WOW! I truly am excited to hear about this.

    From Astronomy.com:

    http://www.astronomy.com/asy/default.aspx?c=a&id=5471

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