very cool news

[Kruzen]

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?

what are you talking about?

Fish live in a 1g environment. Everything on earth lives in a 1g environment. Pilots and such experience "greater than g" forces for limited periods of time, as do astronauts, sustained greater than g forces will kill you.

2g is too much strain on life in its current form, its strictly too much force to live in without rapid failure, human physiology can't keep up with it, perhaps some microbes and what not could but its really a non-issue cause nothing intelligent would ever come out of it.

[CleanAzzE30z]

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

Then thered be very few of us left here on Earth. And we'd be all out of stupid drunk bitches to fuck.


Mariano

[h0lmes]

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.

Are you kidding me? Christianty, Islam, Judaism are all based on the idea that God/Allah/Yahweh created man in his image and created Earth as a sort of spiritual center of the universe. The idea that there are other, possibly billions, of Earth like planets out there with their own forms of life would completely disrupt the foundations of Abrahamic religions.

[h0lmes]

what are you talking about?

Fish live in a 1g environment. Everything on earth lives in a 1g environment. Pilots and such experience "greater than g" forces for limited periods of time, as do astronauts, sustained greater than g forces will kill you.

2g is too much strain on life in its current form, its strictly too much force to live in without rapid failure, human physiology can't keep up with it, perhaps some microbes and what not could but its really a non-issue cause nothing intelligent would ever come out of it.

James, underwater is a weightless environment.

[Kruzen]

Are you kidding me? Christianty, Islam, Judaism are all based on the idea that God/Allah/Yahweh created man in his image and created Earth as a sort of spiritual center of the universe. The idea that there are other, possibly billions, of Earth like planets out there with their own forms of life would completely disrupt the foundations of Abrahamic religions.

Microbes don't need to be converted. If (by odd chance) there is extreterrestrial life on another planet, it would have to be free-willed and self thinking for it to have any negative ramifications on christianity. Otherwise its just a living entity that makes no decisions and therefore is sinless in the first place, nullifying the need to facilitate evangilistic tendencies as christians do.

Sorry if that was wordy, it came out that way :(

Basically, if the life can't think, it doesn't interfere with anything.

[Kruzen]

James, underwater is a weightless environment.

Its weightless because of buoyancy, not because gravity is not effecting you. The only true simulation of zero-G capable on earth is in free-fall at the rate of 9.8 m/s² (ignoring air resistance of course)

[h0lmes]

Its weightless because of buoyancy, not because gravity is not effecting you. The only true simulation of zero-G capable on earth is in free-fall at the rate of 9.8 m/s² (ignoring air resistance of course)

Yes and why couldn't an alien creature be more bouyant or more massive to even out the extra g's? On Earth we have animals that live in all sorts of harsh environments that humans couldn't dream of surviving in, why wouldn't it be conceivable that aliens could live in these environments as well? Water is really the only thing needed for carbon based life forms to exist.

[Kruzen]

Yes and why couldn't an alien creature be more bouyant or more massive to even out the extra g's? On Earth we have animals that live in all sorts of harsh environments that humans couldn't dream of surviving in, why wouldn't it be conceivable that aliens could live in these environments as well? Water is really the only thing needed for carbon based life forms to exist.

I suppose it could, but life as we know it wouldn't be able to live there. and their muscles would atrophy and die off here much like they do in space if you're up there too long.

Macro evolution is hard enough to believe in the first place because of universal time restraints, i'd be pretty balls to the wall confident that there isn't any life on that planet, or if there is its insignificant and unintelligent.