Earth May Have Twin. We May Have a Problem
Astronomers say they are very close to finding Earth's twin somewhere in our galaxy.
That's nice. But have we considered the ramifications of this? For example, if one planet has an earthquake, does the other planet feel it?
I don't know any astronomers, so I asked some real-life fathers of twins what they thought of the news.
Writer/comedian Dan Cronin from "Late Night with Conan O'Brien," father of four-year-old twin girls:
I can't fathom the magnitude of this, because I am too busy calculating how much it would cost to send twin planets to college.
Producer/filmmaker/baseball blogger Paul Sullivan, father to three-year-old twin boys:
I just hope on the twin planet I will find MY galactic double and ask him "Do YOU know what you are doing as a parent?" And if he is my true twin, he'd say "I'm just making this up as I go along."
Writer Michael Bernard, currently working on a movie for Nickelodeon, father to four-year-old twin boys:
If Earth has a twin it means the sun will never get a minute of sleep for the next four years.
Author and Newsweek blogger Darin Strauss, father to 8-month-old twin boys:
As a guy who both wrote a book on Siamese Twins ("Chang and Eng") and -- thanks to a wink of fate -- now has twins of his own (Beau and Shepherd), I can tell you: Earth's twin will steal Earth's baby toys, and whoever cleans up Earth's poop should prepare for some twin mess to follow soon thereafter, because twins' bathroom schedules are synced.
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