A Waterworld Goldilocks Planet

goldilocksmission writes: News spread recently about a super-earth sized planet that has been recently discovered to contain one of the most essential compounds for life to exist in the universe, water. GJ1214b, a massive planet that can house about six earths and is about forty light years away from us. The significant discovery leap of detecting Gliese 581 d to the more goldilocks planet oriented GJ1214b is a testament to the advances in the technology of detecting earth-like exoplanets.