February 2nd, 2012 at 3:18PM
Another one! We should probably still do a better job with the planet we’ve got, since this one’s 22 light years away, but *wow.* “The other rocky candidates lie at the very edges of their stars’ habitable zones. But GJ 667Cc is just right. It lies right in the middle of this habitable zone, roughly where Earth would be in that solar system.” Hopefully, these astronomers name their kids more creatively than they do possible habitable planets.

Another one!

We should probably still do a better job with the planet we’ve got, since this one’s 22 light years away, but *wow.*

“The other rocky candidates lie at the very edges of their stars’ habitable zones. But GJ 667Cc is just right. It lies right in the middle of this habitable zone, roughly where Earth would be in that solar system.”

Hopefully, these astronomers name their kids more creatively than they do possible habitable planets.

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December 7th, 2011 at 1:01PM
“Once you can accept the universe as being something expanding into an infinite nothing which is something, wearing stripes with plaid is easy.” ~Albert Einstein

“Once you can accept the universe as being something expanding into an infinite nothing which is something, wearing stripes with plaid is easy.”

~Albert Einstein

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December 6th, 2011 at 7:27PM
I was ready to break Close Encounters of the Third Kind and my synthesizer out yesterday, after the announcement of the Earth-like planet, Kepler-22b. Despite several similar physical and spacial characteristics, there is speculation that, due to it being almost 2.5 times the size of Earth, Kepler’s make-up may be more like Jupiter and Neptune.   So..even though it’s always a good time for CEOTTK, let’s cross our fingers the 2012 TED Prize - awarded this year with a sustainable future in mind - is super motivating. *** More on Kepler: http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/world/53061245-68/planet-kepler-zone-astronomers.html.csp More on TED & The City 2.0: http://www.tedprize.org/announcing-the-2012-ted-prize-winner/

I was ready to break Close Encounters of the Third Kind and my synthesizer out yesterday, after the announcement of the Earth-like planet, Kepler-22b. Despite several similar physical and spacial characteristics, there is speculation that, due to it being almost 2.5 times the size of Earth, Kepler’s make-up may be more like Jupiter and Neptune.  

So..even though it’s always a good time for CEOTTK, let’s cross our fingers the 2012 TED Prize - awarded this year with a sustainable future in mind - is super motivating.

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More on Kepler: http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/world/53061245-68/planet-kepler-zone-astronomers.html.csp

More on TED & The City 2.0: http://www.tedprize.org/announcing-the-2012-ted-prize-winner/

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December 6th, 2011 at 7:13PM
2012 TED Prize Winner – The City 2.0 “For the first time in the history of the prize, it is being awarded not to an individual, but to an idea. It is an idea upon which our planet’s future depends.” More: http://www.tedprize.org/announcing-the-2012-ted-prize-winner/ *** TED rules. Go Humans.

2012 TED Prize Winner – The City 2.0

“For the first time in the history of the prize, it is being awarded not to an individual, but to an idea.

It is an idea upon which our planet’s future depends.”

More: http://www.tedprize.org/announcing-the-2012-ted-prize-winner/

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TED rules. Go Humans.

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