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[jeffreyab]

Potentially habitable planet found but not really in our neighbourhood:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070425/ap_on_sc/habitable_planet

Comments

[sksperry.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's a bit of a commute but the neighbours are quiet.

[siegerat.livejournal.com]

We are not alone!

I don't care if it is never proven. The potentials just give me a warm and fuzzy feeling.

not really in our neighbourhood:

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

There are about 400 billion stars in the galaxy and of them, about 400 billion of them are farther away from us than Gliese 581.

Re: not really in our neighbourhood:

[jeffreyab.livejournal.com]

Everything is relative.

I tend to think of things in terms of Niven's Know Space and/or the Imperium map.

Re: not really in our neighbourhood:

[jeffreyab.livejournal.com]

Actually I stand corrected, 20 light years puts it on the Imperium map and in Known Space.

I wonder where on the map it would be.

[reddherring1955.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the link. Just what I need for my current writing project!