FROM OUR EXOPLANETS EDITOR GALILEO NEWTON

SCIENTISTS LEAPING FOR joy at the discovery of a planet so like our own that it is said to be warming at an alarming rate, have revealed that the latest Earth clone also appears to have continents and countries like ours, and even its own England, complete with a soccer team that has failed miserably to win a second world cup.

“This is tremendous,” explained Professor Ben Ditlykebeckm of Bridgecam University’s Diversity College, a private establishment dedicated to balance and equilibrium in the universe. “This planet is identical to ours to such a degree that its senior academic strata appear to have copied our work virtually to the letter. Wicked, as we like to say in astronomy class. This is the way we want things to be. And with an England team that just cannot win a second world cup. If I were not a Marxist atheist, I would say: Thank you, God!”