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There’s good news and bad news. The bad news is we are doing our darnedest to destroy the planet where we live. The good news is that astronomers think it’s just a matter of time before they find the Earth’s twin. Astronomers said that last week they found three super-Earths, bigger than our planet, rocky and orbiting a single star. Dozens of other masses were found around other stars.

“Being able to find three Earth-mass planets around a single star really makes the point that not only may many stars have one Earth, but they may very well have a couple of Earths,” said a planet formation theorist at the Carnegie Institution of Washington in Washington, D.C.

The key word there, of course, is theorist. As for me, since we are messing up this planet so badly, I can’t imagine why the Creator would give us another one to destroy. Still, the theorists are predicting they will find Earth’s twin in the next five years or so, give or take a millennium maybe?

“What is amazing to me is that for thousands of years humans have gazed at the stars, wondering if there might be another Earth out there somewhere,” Boss told SPACE.com. “Now we know enough to say that Earth-like planets are indeed orbiting many of those stars, unseen perhaps, but there nevertheless.”

Indeed they are orbiting though unseen? I don’t get it. Where is the proof? Still, like Jody Foster’s dad said in some movie, “If there is no life out there, it’s a terrible waste of space.” Do you think there is life out there? Why?

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