Kepler Discovers First Earth-Sized Exoplanets 179
ananyo writes "NASA's Kepler telescope has reached one of its major mission milestones: finding an Earth-sized planet outside the Solar System. What's more, it has done it twice in the same star system. Whizzing around the star Kepler-20, about 290 parsecs (946 light-years) from Earth, is not only an Earth-sized planet, but also something just a touch smaller — a Venus."
We need to mount an expedition (Score:4, Funny)
Again (Score:2, Funny)
Comme on, another planet, it has been a week since the last one, will my extensions work on this one?
Re:Remember the good ol' days (Score:5, Funny)
Um, what? What exactly do you think Johannes Kepler [wikipedia.org] was, a washing machine?
290 Parsecs! (Score:5, Funny)
Damn that's fast!
Re:Good news (Score:2, Funny)
There was - but Apple sued, saying that NASA's work infringed on it's patents...
Re:We need to mount an expedition (Score:5, Funny)
"but also something just a touch smaller — a Venus."
If there's a Venus and no known Mars... then does that mean it's all women?
Sign me up!
Have you learnt nothing from all your years of watching Star Trek? The women are all blue or green, have 3 breasts, and want to KILL you!