very cool news

[mikeltang]

Let's put all the stupid people on that plant. If they can find their way there.

why don't we have all the smart people move there and leave the stupid people to destroy themselves. i mean there are more stupid people than smart people.

[92 mtechnic cabrio]

why don't we have all the smart people move there and leave the stupid people to destroy themselves. i mean there are more stupid people than smart people.

You just don't want to have to fly out there :p

[YAN-3]

"Scientists calculate that average temperatures on the surface of the planet should be around 32 to 104 degrees Fahrenheit. Mayor says that is a friendly environment for liquid water and maybe even life."

lol what a big gap in temp!

[kylebes1]

20 light years=

117,569,996,000,000 miles

Fastest ship: reference < not sure if this actually launched, but the plan was there.

36,000 mph

372,564.794 years to get there.

[DEV0 E30]

Oh baloney! Scientists will make up anything to get more federal funding.

OSCAR MEYER HAS A WAY WITH B O L O G N A.


We could be spending it worse ways........ owai.

[Jscotty]

I mean these guys supposedly have found a planet similar to earth...but they claim that it would take 1000 years to get there. Yeah, right.. OK!

Thats like when I was in the 7th grade and I told everyone I had a girlfriend but she goes to a different school. Or like how I would brag to my friends in high school that I drove the vette today but they weren't around to see it.. Or when I got kicked out of college for a semester but I told my friends that I was on the road on tour with Journey as a backup singer but I got bored with that and decided to go to europe with John Cougar Mellencamp as one of his roadies.

[Kruzen]

20 light years=

117,569,996,000,000 miles

Fastest ship: reference < not sure if this actually launched, but the plan was there.

36,000 mph

372,564.794 years to get there.

This is pretty much what I was hinting at. The fastest theretical ship we have travels at .5c (theoretically) which still takes us 200 years to get there, it also has no way of slowing down.

Furthermore, this planet is 5x as massive as earth which is ~2.25g which would not support long-term human life, especially if you had any heart problems, its just too much physical strain outside of our normal bodies to handle for long.

Nifty discovery, useless application.

[h0lmes]

This is pretty much what I was hinting at. The fastest theretical ship we have travels at .5c (theoretically) which still takes us 200 years to get there, it also has no way of slowing down.

Furthermore, this planet is 5x as massive as earth which is ~2.25g which would not support long-term human life, especially if you had any heart problems, its just too much physical strain outside of our normal bodies to handle for long.

Nifty discovery, useless application.

You're thinking too anthropocentrically. Scientists are saying that there is a very good chance it has water. Being that life appeared on our planet a very short time after water first appeared, they believe that there is a possibilty that this planet may have life. I understand that the probability of this is probably remote, but I still think it is worth investigating.
Even finding microscopic life or small sea creatures would be very profound. The realization that we aren't as unique and special as we thought we were would change humanity, and I believe it would be the better.

[DEV0 E30]

Or if they have ray guns and want to kill us and take our resources that could also be ok and unify us as a species to crush zem. AMIRITE?

Thinking outside of the e30 box.

[ivo316]

Let's put all the stupid people on that plant. If they can find their way there.

Earth would be quite deserted then wouldn't it ????? :(

[Kruzen]

You're thinking too anthropocentrically. Scientists are saying that there is a very good chance it has water. Being that life appeared on our planet a very short time after water first appeared, they believe that there is a possibilty that this planet may have life. I understand that the probability of this is probably remote, but I still think it is worth investigating.
Even finding microscopic life or small sea creatures would be very profound. The realization that we aren't as unique and special as we thought we were would change humanity, and I believe it would be the better.

I wouldn't count on it based on how massive the planet is.

[DarkWing6]

If there are people more special than us out there, let them find us. :D

[schmidty]

The realization that we aren't as unique and special as we thought we were would change humanity, and I believe it would be the better.

how would it change humanity other then realizing there is life (or the possibility of life) on another planet? It's not gonna change a thing other then perhaps throwing Millions of dollars at the space program.

[kylebes1]

We know what was going on 20 years ago, there. Maybe they would think all the e30s are brand new, they would not even know about plastic bumpers yet!

[h0lmes]

I wouldn't count on it based on how massive the planet is.

Gravity has nothing to do with life. Fish live in a 0g environment, we live in a 1g environment, why couldn't life exist in a 2g environment?