You may have guessed by now, I’m a total science nerd. The type who used to buy science magazines to read about the latest thoughts in string theory. So you can imagine my excitement about NASA’s recent announcement about the discovery of not one, but SEVEN, rocky planets around a neighboring star.

“Why is this so amazing?” you may ask. Well, first of all the technological aspects of it are insidiously complex. Planets do not create their own light, so scientists cannot see them directly for the glare of their stars. These exo-planets (the name given to planets around stars …