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A little while back I told you all that the world was coming to an end. Well now, here’s my shot to save humanity from the asteroids of impending doom.

A new world has been discovered a mere 20.5 light years (120,000,000,000,000 miles) away from Earth.

The discovery was announced today by a team of European astronomers, using a telescope in La Silla in the Chilean Andes.

This plant is the first truly Earth-like planet found in our solar system, meaning it has some water, a little bit of gravity, a touch of atmosphere and the all important normal life-sustainable temperatures (between 32-102 degrees Fahrenheit). So far this is the first of 220+ extro-planets (a planet that orbits a star besides our Sun) that is anything like our Earth. Most of the other plants have been too big, made of gas, too hot or too cold for life.

The new planet, which orbits a small, red star called Gliese 581. The red star is about 50 times cooler than our Sun. So that means that the planet is much closer to said sun.

The Earth-like planet orbits its sun at a distance of only six million miles or so (our Sun is 93 million miles away), traveling so fast that its “year” only lasts 13 of our days.

The parent star would dominate the view from the surface - a huge red ball of fire that must be a spectacular sight.

As for the size of the planet (being called Gliese 581C –though Phillips World is better-), it’s much bigger than our Earth. It’s 12,000 miles across (versus Earth’s 8,000) and it has a mass five times that of Earth. What that translates into is we can use more SUVs, coal burning power plant and Styrofoam for a lot longer, before anything bad happens (not that we’re even causing global warming on this planet to begin with) .

Consequently, if there is water and such that human life might be sustainable on the planet, that means there could be some other form of life out there. This life will probably have to be annihilated before any humans can live there –just to be on the safe side. ‘

Since I was first to let everyone know about our Earth’s impending doom, thus saving it, and now the newly discovered planet, I find it only fair that I call shotgun for dictator and overlord of the new world. This will truly be a brave new world (literally).

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