"Indrid Cold" <indridcold@op.net> wrote in message
news:3F0C92C6.342E997B@bnl.gov...
"An international team of scientists has discovered a planet
and star that may share the same relationship as Jupiter and
our Sun, the closest comparison that researchers have found
since they began their search for extra-solar planets nearly
a decade ago..."

Is that good timing or what?

And it only took one decade of looking, with our most primitive prototype
instrument, to find a system with what our current science believes too be
one of the major elements needed for Earth-like planets. It's only 90 light
years away, too, a close neighbor by galactic standards. That only took 10
years, I wonder what we'll know in 100,000. If anyone else is 100,000 years
ahead of us, not much at all really, does it really seem "highly unlikely"
that they would at least know where the worlds with lots of water are?