Huge excitement in the world of science this morning as announcements about the discovery of a new planet is announced.The discovery of Corot-7b was announced in February after observations by the Corot planet-hunting space observatory.
This planet is approximately 500 light years from Earth and has been described as Earth like I’m not sure how that can be when in the next breath we are told the temperatures there are in day time 3600 degrees Fahrenheit and 330F at night, I would say that would be very unearth like and have zero chance of having life as we know it.
And consider this, if we were to send a message, with the technology available it would take 500 years for our message to be received there and then another 500 years for us to receive the reply so what would this burning question be, example “ how are you guys?” reply “fine thanks how are you?” that will take 1000 years, so you will excuse me if I don’t get to excited about this latest discovery.
I do appreciate Science and how wonderful it can be and the strides it has made in the last couple of hundred years, but these types of “discovery’s” that we are drip fed every few years in a fanfare of excitement are just designed to remind our leaders that funding time is coming around, look how clever we are, they never really amount to anything.
But keep looking and who knows maybe this time next year we will be lunching on Mars with new neighbours.
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