All right religious folks, time to start editing your holy books! We found another Earth-like planet!
From the friendlyatheist:
So much for the fine-tuning (teleological) argument. Our world is just one on a scale of many, many varying degrees. Nothing magical about it.
Well, it IS magical, but like Steve Jobs uses the word—sure, nothing spiritual about it, but FUCK dude, we should stop all this bullshit fighting with each other about religions (you know, Israel/Palestine & terrorism in general) and focus on BUILDING A LIGHT DRIVE!!
This planet is surprisingly close. Check out this cutting from the MSNBC article Friendly Atheist links to above:
Astronomers say they’ve found the first planet beyond our solar system that could have the right size and setting to sustain life as we know it, only 20 light-years from Earth.
“My own personal feeling is that the chances of life on this planet are 100 percent,” Steven Vogt, an astrophysicist at the University of California at Santa Cruz, told reporters today. “I have almost no doubt about it.”
So, LET’S GET TO THAT TRANSLUMINAL ENGINE GOING!!
Don’t you get what this means? It means we no longer have to share this planet with each other!! Assuming we can get off of this planet to that planet, if we have major strife with each other, we can JUST LEAVE!!
SWEET!!
But, I swear, if anybody tries to name this planet “Pandora” I’m going to kick them out the airlock on the way.
