Totally kewl.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Evidence of water has been detected for the first time in a planet outside our solar system, an astronomer said on Tuesday, a tantalizing find for scientists eager to know whether life exists beyond Earth.
Travis Barman, an astronomer at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, said water vapor has been found in the atmosphere of a large, Jupiter-like gaseous planet located 150 light years from Earth in the constellation Pegasus. The planet is known as HD 209458b.

The planet’s name doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue, so I propose we rename it Felicia’s World, after my childhood imaginary friend. We used to play telepathic underwater Amazons with my Princess Leia and Malibu Barbie dolls, and dream of founding our own colony of all-Amazons on some distant planet one day, where there were no boys.

…more seriously, I do think that Ken has the right vision for how colonization will happen. 150 light years isn’t really that far away, galactically speaking. I agree with him that it will be rich individuals, and not squabbling, messy governments to busy pointing space weapons at this planet, who will eventually colonize space.