The newly discovered earth-like planet at Giese-581
My daughter Erika and myself had this exchange of ideas after she sent me to read the ultra interesting news about the Earth-like, 20-light-year far planet in solar system Gliese-581: This is what I wrote to her, in response to what I read: I have always been 100% sure that there MUST BE thousands of planets with conditions similar to our Earth. Life as we know it can develop where such conditions exist. Once it starts, then it evolves. But of course, this is "too" complicated for fundamentalist visions of reality. Isaac Asimov, whom you should read and would devour and crazily enjoy, has some very logical and very mentally inviting reasonings that intelligent people should include in their assets of vision forming information. This just discovered planet is only 20 light years far from us. That is very close. Its sun is in the final stages of existence, a lot less powerful than ours... people would have to find different ways of getting sun tanned, or simply different ways o...