{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"Rainbow Dash Network","provider_url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/","type":"link","title":"Astra (astra)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Dec-11 19:35:59 UTC","author_name":"Astra (astra)","author_url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/astra","url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/notice\/844750","html":"This is huge (by virtue of the fact that the worlds found aren't).  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/13990-2-earth-size-alien-planets-kepler-smallest-worlds.html\" title=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/13990-2-earth-size-alien-planets-kepler-smallest-worlds.html\" rel=\"nofollow external\">http:\/\/www.space.com\/13990-2-earth-size-alien-planets-kepler-smallest-worlds.html<\/a>  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.)"}