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You can follow New Horizons up to the 1000th century.

I did say 'at least'!

Because we have at least half a century of precise measurements that show that it is.

You mean a blacker hole? :)

A civilization could also be less advanced than us too. The planet may be older than Earth but live could have evolved later than it did here.

The ESAis also planning the PLATO observatory to discover and characterize rocky extrasolar planets: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLATO_%28 spacecraft %29

One of its main objectives is to study the atmospheres of exoplanets and search for the building blocks of life.

The James Webb Space Telescope is due to be launched in 2018: http://jwst.nasa.gov/about.html

I would tend to be very wary of that particular site; http://beforeitsnews.com/space/2015/06/nasa-knows-planet-x-has-already-entered-our-solar-system-2491530.html

Carbon dioxide kills a lot of people too.

Botulinum toxin, one of only two substances (the other being the narcotic angel dust) that is lethal in nanogram levels.About 80kg is enough to kill about 8 billion people.Of course the most dangerous substance you are likely to encounter in the workplace is hydrofluoric acid. It is highly...

Sodium cyanide is actually quite safe to use as long as it is used properly with the proper PPE.

I have just nominated Thanatos and Anubis.

I put it under Authors and artists, it hasn't appeared on the list yet. http://www.ourpluto.org/discuss/authors-artists

There is a public campaign to submit names for the features on Pluto and Charon. This opportunity ends on April 24, 2015. I have already nominated Leonard Nimoy since Pluto is the god of the underworld and Charon carries the souls of the newly deceased across the river Styx to the afterlife I...