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Scientists discover potentially habitable planet roughly 146 light-years from Earth, 4 times closer than the next best planet in a habitable zone; surface temperature may be below -94F degrees (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The article itself also says -70 which, still very cold, is much better.

[–] qupada@fedia.io 6 points 1 week ago

-70°C is -94°F

[–] bizarroland@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And it's not like once we have the technology needed to travel 146 light years that we couldn't do something insane like deploy mirror-film solar cells or something to capture extra heat in orbit around the planet and warm the entire planet and terraform it for our usage.

[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 0 points 1 week ago

Once? I dont think any if that is close or even gauranteed.