Exoplanet discovered around neighbouring star
Astronomers have discovered a planet around one of the closest stars to our Sun.
Nearby planets like this are likely to be prime targets in the search for signatures of life, using the next generation of telescopes.
The planet's mass is thought to be more than three times that of our own, placing it in a category of world know as "super-Earths".
It orbits Barnard's star, which sits "just" six light-years away.
Writing in the journal Nature [DOI: 10.1038/s41586-018-0677-y] [DX], Guillem Anglada Escudé and colleagues say this newly discovered world has a mass 3.2 times bigger than the Earth's.
Also at phys.org.
(Score: 2) by jmorris on Thursday November 15 2018, @04:04AM
A worldwide Socialist Revolution would almost instantly collapse. Read "The Impossibility of Socialist Calculation" by Hayek or "Economic Calculation In The Socialist Commonwealth" by Mises for the proof. Yes proof, in the strict sense. Serious Socialist thinkers have even conceded the point and began furiously redesigning in attempts to work around the problem. None have yet succeeded, even in theory. So no, a worldwide Socialism is literally impossible. Socialists must currently have a free economy to parasitize.
Seriously, in the same topoc as discussion of going to the stars and we still have people denying impossibility of Socialist economics. Stupid monkeys don't deserve the stars. Until we grow up we probably shouldn't be contaminating the rest of the universe with toxic stupidity.