Thursday, April 26, 2007

New Earth? (Science)

Scientists have discovered a planet that has the potential to host life. Five times the mass of earth, it orbits the red star Gliese 581. Dr Dimitar Sasselov of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics claims we can "go there" although it is "20 lightyears away".


So what are we going to call it? Earth -2? Counter-Earth? New Universe? Stop finding about stuff that's never really going to help us!

Ben Tan

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

why do we always try to find stuff and things that we say are millions of years away from us and neglect poverty and wars that are still on this planet .