Astra (astra)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Dec-11 19:35:59 UTC
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This is huge (by virtue of the fact that the worlds found aren't). http://www.space.com/13990-2-earth-size-alien-planets-kepler-smallest-worlds.html These worlds won't sustain life as we'd be able to identify it, but it brings us a lot closer to being able to find worlds that could. (And -- in the interest of keeping things on-topic -- if we find Equestria out there, I swear, I am buying a surplus Russian space suit and Soyuz craft, and developing an FTL drive using three million agitated 2-liter bottles of Sprite.)