Kepler-22b is about twice the size of Earth and may have a surface temperature of around 22C. Its star in the region of the constellations of Lyra and Cygnus, is slightly smaller than the Sun, and about 25% less luminous.
The planet orbits its star in 290 earth days at a distance of 127 million kilometers. It is some 600 light years from Earth.
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Recently, it was noticed that China has been making large things in the Gobi desert, near the border with Mongolia. The structures and patterns are quite visible to sattelites and have no apparent function. The most ridiculous explanation I have heard is that they are designed as targets for spy satellites to focus on. (The US and Russia have spy satellites and no one has noticed either of those countries building such things.)
Look at the following photos. On the left in each is a Gobi desert structure. On the right is a part of the lines on the Nazca Plain.
Concentric circles in the Gobi Desert (left) and at Nazca (right)
On the left a geometric figure in the Gobi Desert that bears at least some resemblance to the running bird at Nazca
Pattern of trapezoids and triangles in the Gobi Desert (left) and similar pattern overlaying the bird at Nazca
David Boreanez - Bones
Here’s a quote from David Boreanez’s character on BONES:
“Just because something can be explained, doesn’t make it explainable.”
I’m not making this up and I’m pretty sure he was serious.
It’s like that California tourism ad that asserts that “most of the misconceptions about California are not true”, suggesting that some of them are.
I have never before watched this show and I will never do it again.
Gregory House
House just isn’t House anymore, leading one to believe that the CIA may have kidnapped the real House and left some hapless, needy copy in his place. I watched an entire episode during which I gained more knowledge from the advertisements than from the story. (Did you know that the human brain on average has a new thought every 1.2 seconds? That was in an automotive ad, possibly from Kia.) In the past two weeks all I have learned from the show itself is that House does not like cats and has excellent dental health.
It was almost bad enough to make me want to watch those urban rednecks in the sitcom on the other network.