Heres another article from TheRegister:
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The exact nature of GJ1214b is unknown, but Berta suggested "some of the planet's water should be in the form of exotic materials like Ice VII", described as "a crystalline form of water that exists at pressures greater than 20,000 times Earth's sea-level atmosphere".
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12...th_waterworld/
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This anomaly could be explained by an inhospitable atmosphere which is "gradually boiling off", although it will fall to space-based instruments such as the Hubble Space Telescope to determine the facts.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12...th_waterworld/
So in other words, as usual, I'm just gonna have to take NASA's word for it that this planet is supposedly yet another "inhospitable" environment.
Isn't anyone tired of hearing that nonsense?
It is highly unlikely that out of all the planets discovered so far, whether exoplanets or planets in our own solar system, it is doubtful ALL of them are "inhospitable" as such.
My opinion has always been that almost every planet and moon, even in our solar system, are inhabited by some form of life, at least primitive life.
So maybe these "scientists" should start pulling their head out of the jar, reevaluate their calculations, and stop trusting NASA merely at their word.