Super-Earth Planets May Have Earthlike Oceans & Continents

[bogeyman]

"WASHINGTON — The alien worlds known as "super-Earths" may be more like our own planet than previously thought, a new study suggests.

Super-Earths — exoplanets slightly larger than Earth — are common throughout the Milky Way galaxy, but because of their massive gravity, scientists have assumed they should be water worlds. According to a new model, however, tectonically active super-Earths likely store most of their water in the mantle, leaving exposed continents and oceans that could create a stable climate such as that of Earth."


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/10/super-earth-planets-earthlike-oceans-continents_n_4574781.html?ref=topbar

[Rollo]

MSM are blasting now with articles about possibility of life on another planets or UFO's. It looks like disclosure is under way.

[OnyxKnight]

In the more scientific and intellectual circles "random" "ideas" and "concepts" like alliances, associations, trade routes and federation/confederation type of structures between various forms of extraterrestrial intelligence is being more and more popular to discuss. That's your real pavement for a lookout, not the exoplanetary findings (as much role they do play themselves, no doubt, but they are a minor component). There is a lot of reference to popular media and books that entertain such matters, like Star Trek, Babylon 5, The Day The Earth Stood Still, Odyssey series, Uplift series etc.

There is an accent on "handling" and "dealing" with "immature" and "chaotic" species in state of emergence by "elder civilizations". They are entertaining this as an answer to the Fermi Paradox.

You should dig the net about this more often, its all over the place. Don't focus on just MSM media, try the places we will likely hear an announcement. It wont be politicians or news anchors, it will be the scientists and the intellectual collective associated with them.