Your Deep Thought For The Day
I think that news like this should be a bigger deal. Granted, we are about to send troops to Liberia (Mogadishu 2, anyone?), but I should think that the discovey of a “Jupiter-like” planet 90 light years away is kind of a big deal.
As Carl Sagan wrote in Contact, “if we are all alone, then it would be an awful waste of space.”