Notes from Howard's Sabbatical from Working. The name comes from a 1998 lunch conversation. Someone asked if everything man knew was on the web. I answered "no" and off the top of my head said "Fidel Castro's favorite color". About every 6-12 months I've searched for this. It doesn't show up in the first 50 Google results (this blog is finally first for that search), AskJeeves says it's: red.
Monday, June 13, 2005
Extra-Solar Earth-like Planet Found
Scientists have found a planet outside of our solar-system that is more like Earth than like Jupiter. They apparently used techniques similar to what I heard about in March, just finding an extra wobble on the star. Only 15 light-years away, much closer to its sun, and its year is only about 2 of our days long. It may not have life, but it's probably just the first one of these that we'll discover. We could have a round trip conversation with them in only 30 years time...
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