NASA: THIS PLANET COULD BE ‘EARTH 2.0:′

Wow. NASA on Thursday announced the discovery of a planet that could be the first found outside our solar system capable of sustaining human life. The planet, which is officially named Kepler-452b, is being described by NASA’s Jon Jenkins as Earth’s “older, bigger cousin” and it is the smallest planet discovered so far in the so-called “habitable” zone in a solar system in which a planet is capable of sustaining pools of water on its surface.

I’m not sure what all the fuss is all about — I discovered Earth II decades ago. Close-up, it didn’t look like all that much…