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April 24
Potentially Habitable Planet Found
Only about 120 trillion miles away, it seems, a close neighbor resides named 581c.
The planet is just the right size, might have water in liquid form, and in galactic terms is relatively nearby at 120 trillion miles away. But the star it closely orbits, known as a "red dwarf," is much smaller, dimmer and cooler than our sun.
The distance, it seems, does still pose a problem:
"We don't know how to get to those places in a human lifetime," said retired NASA astronomer Steve Maran.
Never say never. I had one Christian professor tell me that "never will life be found outside of the earth". It would be unfortunate for Christians. It would mean their "time scales" are no longer absolute, but simply a warp in space, matter in motion. It would render their "absolutes" as utterly unabsolute outside of the comfortable earth.
Sad how science complicates so many things. Wait, whoever heard Jesus say anything about building his church on science?