Above a calm, dark ocean, a huge, bloated red sun rises in the sky - a full ten times the size of our Sun as seen from Earth. Small waves lap at a sandy shore and on the beach, something stirs...This is the scene - or may be the scene - on what is possibly the most extraordinary world to have been discovered by astronomers: the first truly Earth-like planet to have been found outside our Solar System.
This fires up geek genes like nobodies business.
I certainly hope that we discover planets with life on them before my life ends. It would suck to not be around for what may be the most earthshaking discovery of all time. ("Earthshaking" get it?)
P.S. You know when I first posted this it was sort of done with my tongue firmly in my cheek. But then I read this. Coincidence? I don't think so!
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