earth-like

• “-- A spacecraft is launched to look for other earth-like planets.”

  Short Takes

• “In 2154, a joint military/corporate effort from a dying earth seeks to exploit the mineral resources of an earth-like moon circling a gas giant in a distant solar system.”

  "...bows and arrows against the lightning."*

• “The eventual discovery of truly earth-like planets around other stars may usher in a complete turn-around in attitude by the general public.”

  That Was Then - This Is Now - NASA Watch

• “In a solar system far, far away, astronomers have discovered a planet with certain earth-like conditions that could sustain life.”

  The Huffington Post: Patricia Draznin: GJ 581g: Cool Planets Are Hard to Find

• “After years of experimenting with artificial gravity machines, I have come to believe it is more beneficial that we adapt to the environment outer space, by learning how to spin without getting dizzy (easy to do), rather than creating an earth-like environment, by spinning the space station.”

  Yet Another Worthwhile Education Program Shuts Down - NASA Watch

• “I realize there are billions of stars and planets out there and finding even a handful of "earth-like" planets would be great, but aren't we going to miss most of the possibilities?”

  Kepler Is On Its Way - NASA Watch

• “You see earth-like mountains floating, I see a living planet with different parts of a body.”

  Avatar: The Good and The Bad

• “So Seti experiments often train their radio ears on star systems that seem most likely to host earth-like worlds.”

  The Guardian: Alien life – but not as we know it

• “Launched by NASA, in 2009, Kepler is designed to search for earth-like planets, small rocky planets in the habitable comfort zones from their host stars -- neither too hot, nor too cold.”

  The Huffington Post: Santhosh Mathew, PhD: The Dawn of the Exoplanets

• “The confirmation of an earth-like planet will indeed be met with much excitement and that will spark a debate in the scientific community about our place in the universe.”

  The Huffington Post: Santhosh Mathew, PhD: The Dawn of the Exoplanets

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