New Planet found... and it's Like Earth.

Stuff like this fascinates me.

This is a Very Big Universe we live in ladies and gents... to imagine that we, only we are so lucky as to have this existence, is to be utterly selfish; kinda egotistical of us all to even attempt to pretend that we are the only living beings in this Vast, Vast universe.

Technology these days is sending satellites to the moons of Saturn, to Pluto to orbit and take photographs. We've come a long way. We're even peering out into the universe to find planets, orbiting suns, that may be similar to earth... I used my web designer skills (I am Certified by the way, Cal State Dominguez Hills) to pull this great news story, into thaShow.

Munich, April 24: An international team of astronomers from Switzerland, France and Portugal have discovered the most Earth-like planet outside our Solar System to date.

The planet has a radius only 50 percent larger than Earth and is very likely to contain liquid water on its surface.


The research team used the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO’s) 3.6-m telescope to discover the super-Earth, which has a mass about five times that of the Earth and orbits a red dwarf already known to harbour a Neptune-mass planet.

Astronomers believe there is a strong possibility in the presence of a third planet with a mass about eight times that of the Earth in the system.

However, unlike our Earth, this planet takes only 13 days to complete one orbit round its star. It is also 14 times closer to its star than the Earth is from the Sun.

However, since its host star, the red dwarf Gliese 581, is smaller and colder than the Sun – and thus less luminous – the planet lies in the habitable zone, the region around a star where water could be liquid!

“We have estimated that the mean temperature of this super-Earth lies between 0 and 40 degrees Celsius, and water would thus be liquid,” said Stéphane Udry from the Geneva Observatory, Switzerland and lead-author of the paper in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics.

“Moreover, its radius should be only 1.5 times the Earth’s radius, and models predict that the planet should be either rocky – like our Earth – or covered with oceans,” he said.

“Liquid water is critical to life as we know it and because of its temperature and relative proximity, this planet will most probably be a very important target of the future space missions dedicated to the search for extra-terrestrial life. On the treasure map of the Universe, one would be tempted to mark this planet with an X,” added Xavier Delfosse, a member of the team from Grenoble University, France.

According to the research team, the host star, Gliese 581, is among the 100 closest stars to us, located only 20.5 light-years away in the constellation Libra (“the Scales”).

The star has a mass only one third that of the Sun. Such red dwarfs are at least 50 times intrinsically fainter than the Sun and are the most common stars in our Galaxy. Among the 100 closest stars to the Sun, 80 belong to this class.

“Red dwarfs are ideal targets for the search for such planets because they emit less light, and the habitable zone is thus much closer to them than it is around the Sun. Any planets that lie in this zone are more easily detected with the radial-velocity method, the most successful in detecting exoplanets,” said Xavier Bonfils, a co-worker from Lisbon University.

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See, I'm one of those people who's had time to do some research, and have had time to look into things; that's part of what I do here at thaShow, part of what I did at thaClub... inform people of things that just could benefit them in their journey through this thing called life.

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Matt Bacak

I decided to throw up a link to this guy's blog. My Boy DREW actually told me about this guy first, and I log into his page from time to time to see what he's up to. In a nutshell, this guys game is Internet Marketing.



I have not taken lots of time to talk much about Making Money here at ThaShow - but let this be one of the most important links you ever visit. This is the Information Age and today one of the biggest parts of our every day lives is the Internet. Lots is being done on here, specifically in the area of Making Money.

I'm a businesman, and truthfully I'm still waiting for one of my ideas to blow up big. it will happen some day. They say that Success is "The journey" - not the destination. I first heard that from John C. Maxwell at a convention for ACN - a network marketing company that really gave me my business foundation education.

One of the things I learned about business in general is that the trappings of success, the proof that you went On the journey takes a while - success does not happen over night. And that is one of the first things I tell my clients, when I design a website for them, and send them on their way.

See, I'm a web designer, not a success coach. I may write a book or two about how it's done, just like this guy. Matt Bacak is making TONS of money these days, from telling people how he's made Tons of money.

I'm actually not sure which came first but I'm willing to believe that he made his money by mastering how to market to people over the internet, and the experience of doing that has made him 2-3 times more money than that.

Whatever the truth is, the reality of becomming a success online is, you WONT be, if no one has ever heard of you.

It takes lots of work, like anything does, but over time people WILL get to know who you are, and what your business does. If you can manage to get more than one person to do what you're doing, (spreading the word about your business) - you can grow faster.

There is a plethera of information on 'what to do' available on the internet; This guy is a good resource.

I'm not too bad myself (yes, tooting my own horn) - but as you can tell by reading this blog, I haven't really told you much.

Still waiting for my ventures to reach their potential, and when they do, I can tell you all about how I did it.

Real black leaders, get no press.

I was very disappointed to see that I could not find anything about the passing of Congresswoman Jaunita McDonald. All night yesterday I looked, and finally posted a message on Myspace - had to vent, had to share a thought of mine - That it's sad our media is So quick to prop up Jessie or Al everytime anything happens to/or within the black community; while real black leaders get no airplay.

Finally found something that at least mentions that she passed away, here on Wikipedia. Even they aren't saying much about just how she died.

I heard it was cancer... but with no 'news' reporting the facts, I dont know for sure.

She's visited my church a few times and told us about the things she was doing for people in 'the hood' - programs she worked to get instituted; she was a very positive force in our gov't - and who knows if that's got anything to do with why her death, was not covered.

A real shame if you ask me. A day later, nothing is on my Netscape HomePage - nothing is on MyYahoo's HomePage - and I dont know what homepage starts up whenever you open a web browser, but if you dont know to look her up, you would not even know about her passing.

She was a great woman, and will be missed.

R.I.P. Jaunita McDonald