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Earth's twin will be found this year.

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    #32
    Myrddin
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    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    or even 24 hr 37 min 22.663 sec ;)

    Yeah but it would prob have no golden football award :p


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    #33
    NoQuarter
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    RoverZT wrote: »
    1 Messi

    1 planet like Earth

    What's so hard to understand?

    Do you want to make alot of money? Do you?

    Find me another Messi, you have all the stars, galaxies etc to find him.

    Hrmm well lets see.

    Sure, messi is the greatest, but lets say ronaldo who would be second best. If ronaldo was a planet, it wouldnt be as good as earth, but it would almost be as good as earth, which probably means it would be teaming with life. Probably intelligent but not as intelligent as us.

    The same would go for every professional footballer out there. Ok, they arent as good as messi, but if all the other professional footballers were planets, by you analogy, they should at least have life.

    Now heres the kicker; lets say that earth isnt messi, lets say that earth is only Roy Keane. Great player, but no messi. But if earth is Roy Keane, imagine what the real planet messi is like, perhaps much more intelligent than us!

    Then of course, 7 billion people on earth and 1 messi, yes, but how many of those 7 billion have tried their hand at football. If every 1 of those 7 billion tried football, do you think there might be someone as good? Probably!

    also, do you think there will NEVER be anyone as good as messi in the future? Maybe there will be planets just like earth in the future when earth is gone. After all, the universe is evolving constantly with new planets being born every day.


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    #34
    Sin City
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    NoQuarter wrote: »
    Hrmm well lets see.

    Sure, messi is the greatest, but lets say ronaldo who would be second best. If ronaldo was a planet, it wouldnt be as good as earth, but it would almost be as good as earth, which probably means it would be teaming with life. Probably intelligent but not as intelligent as us.

    The same would go for every professional footballer out there. Ok, they arent as good as messi, but if all the other professional footballers were planets, by you analogy, they should at least have life.

    Now heres the kicker; lets say that earth isnt messi, lets say that earth is only Roy Keane. Great player, but no messi. But if earth is Roy Keane, imagine what the real planet messi is like, perhaps much more intelligent than us!

    Then of course, 7 billion people on earth and 1 messi, yes, but how many of those 7 billion have tried their hand at football. If every 1 of those 7 billion tried football, do you think there might be someone as good? Probably!

    also, do you think there will NEVER be anyone as good as messi in the future? Maybe there will be planets just like earth in the future when earth is gone. After all, the universe is evolving constantly with new planets being born every day.


    God help the inhabitents of planet Paul, McShane


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    #35
    ps200306
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    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    or even 24 hr 37 min 22.663 sec ;)

    And there you have put your finger on the main point.

    How many planets have a day of 24 hr 37 min 22.663 sec? Probably not that many. How many have a day between 24 and 25 hrs? A lot more? How many between 1 and 1000 hrs? A lot more again.

    Likewise, how many human adults are "like" Lionel Messi in the sense of being within 1.5 metres of his height? All of them! How many within 0.5m? A lot less. How many within 0.005m? Less again.

    It doesn't mean anything to say a planet is "earth like" unless we define our terms. The man in the street probably thinks it means a place with people and cars and houses and maybe another Lionel Messi. It suits the scientists to give that impression because, let's face it, it's good PR. What they generally actually mean is some combination of a solid surface, ability to have liquid water, and perhaps surface gravity within certain limits.


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    #36
    Sin City
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    NoQuarter wrote: »
    Hrmm well lets see.

    Sure, messi is the greatest, but lets say ronaldo who would be second best. If ronaldo was a planet, it wouldnt be as good as earth, but it would almost be as good as earth, which probably means it would be teaming with life. Probably intelligent but not as intelligent as us.

    The same would go for every professional footballer out there. Ok, they arent as good as messi, but if all the other professional footballers were planets, by you analogy, they should at least have life.

    Now heres the kicker; lets say that earth isnt messi, lets say that earth is only Roy Keane. Great player, but no messi. But if earth is Roy Keane, imagine what the real planet messi is like, perhaps much more intelligent than us!

    Then of course, 7 billion people on earth and 1 messi, yes, but how many of those 7 billion have tried their hand at football. If every 1 of those 7 billion tried football, do you think there might be someone as good? Probably!

    also, do you think there will NEVER be anyone as good as messi in the future? Maybe there will be planets just like earth in the future when earth is gone. After all, the universe is evolving constantly with new planets being born every day.


    God help the inhabitents of planet Paul, McShane


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    #37
    Aquarius34
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    Rhys Essien wrote: »
    http://www.space.com/19044-alien-earth-exoplanets-2013.html

    With an estimated 50 billion Planets in our Galaxy alone,it is predicted that there are 5 million the same as Earth.

    There are far more planets than that.........


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    #38
    maninasia
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    The word is similar. SIMILAR.


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    #39
    Bruthal
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    NoQuarter wrote: »
    Congrats on using the worst analogy I've ever seen or heard. Thats quite an achievement.

    Post #15 is as bad or worse.


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    #40
    Neutron_pot
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    God ignorant people are so annoying!!!


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    #41
    Gambas
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    RoverZT wrote: »
    There are 7 billion people on earth, but only one Lionel Messi.No one at all like him.

    So saying that, how the **** do they come to the conclusion that there are 5 million planets like earth?

    Bull****, that's what it is.

    Our Earth is more Darren Bent than Lionel Messi


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    #42
    Rubecula
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    Gambas wrote: »
    Our Earth is more Darren Bent than Lionel Messi

    With what we are doing to it I think it is likely to become more Joey Barton. :D


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    #43
    Aquarius34
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    3rdDegree wrote: »
    If they found an Earth like planet a billion years younger than ours, it would look nothing like earth today. The astronomical amount of things which had to happen exactly as they did over the last 4.5 billion years made earth like it is today. They may find many planets the same size and distance from a similar sun, but finding earth's twin is not so easy. And although I'm sure it is out there, I doubt it's every 1 in 10,000!

    Life on the world would now be billions years ahead of us, imagine that!


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    #44
    Andy!!
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    RoverZT wrote: »
    There are 7 billion people on earth, but only one Lionel Messi.No one at all like him.

    So saying that, how the **** do they come to the conclusion that there are 5 million planets like earth?

    Bull****, that's what it is.

    Close minded soccer fan? Well, I never. :pac:


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    #45
    ciaranmac
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    maninasia wrote: »
    The word is similar. SIMILAR.

    I thought the word was "twin". Not an identical twin so.


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    #46
    Gambas
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    Sin City wrote: »
    God help the inhabitents of planet Paul, McShane

    That's Mars' twin. AKA the ginger planet.


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    #47
    Rhys Essien
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    Now a new estimate of 100 billion Earth-like planets.

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/04/04/hundred_billion_earth_like_planets/


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    #48
    books4sale
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    If there's a planet out there similar to Earth, but a million times bigger, does that mean the aliens are a million times bigger too?

    Yes ...yes it does!

    Do we want to find these planets?

    No ...no we don't.

    Why? Because I don't want to become classified as a little 'light seasoning' on a medium to rare steak overnight.


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    #49
    slade_x
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    books4sale wrote: »
    If there's a planet out there similar to Earth, but a million times bigger, does that mean the aliens are a million times bigger too?

    Yes ...yes it does!

    No ... No it doesnt! :D
    books4sale wrote: »
    Do we want to find these planets?

    No ...no we don't.

    Yes we do, We have found LOTS^lots of them, we call them stars :P


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    #50
    K.Flyer
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    When we find the planet Magrathea, then we shall find "The Earth II".


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    #51
    Duckworth_Luas
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    books4sale wrote: »
    If there's a planet out there similar to Earth, but a million times bigger, does that mean the aliens are a million times bigger too?

    Yes ...yes it does!

    Do we want to find these planets?

    No ...no we don't.

    Why? Because I don't want to become classified as a little 'light seasoning' on a medium to rare steak overnight.
    Reminds me of this old Twilight Zone episode!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n99iNW9595o


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    #52
    refusetolose
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    2 earth type planets found around 1 sun in habitable zone

    http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2013/04/18/nasa-kepler-planets/2094325/


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