A Fricken EARTH LIKE Planet is found in another system and no-one posts about it?

[Jadow]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gliese_581_c

First off, they'd better rename this planet ASAP. I think this is really cool. It has an atmosphere, surface area FIVE TIMES the size of earth, 1.6G gravity, sounds like there's a lot of potential.

I predict mankind will eventually live on this planet, even if the journey takes generations.

 

[Shortass]

Wow. That's pretty incredible. Can't wait to hear more information about this.

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: Jadow
Topic Title: A Fricken EARTH LIKE Planet is found in another system and no-one posts about it?
Topic Summary: WTF Anandtech?

Way too far away.

We can't even fly back to the moon much less try and explore a planet so many light years away.

Unless we get a business card from visiting aliens it's a non-issue.

 

[Jadow]

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: Jadow
Topic Title: A Fricken EARTH LIKE Planet is found in another system and no-one posts about it?
Topic Summary: WTF Anandtech?

Way too far away.

We can't even fly back to the moon much less try and explore a planet so many light years away.

Unless we get a business card from visiting aliens it's a non-issue.

yeah, but imagine what we'll be able to do in 500 or 1000 years, look at where we are today compared to 1000 years ago.

in 1000 years, we'll be able to build a giant ship that can house generations of people to make the journey --OR-- we'll have found some way to circumvent or break the speed of light barrier.

I don't have faith in "god' but I have faith in MAN!

 

[FoBoT]

there is a good (100+) thread on it in OT, you P&N guys have lost your edge

 

[Jadow]

f*ck OT, NEWS belongs in P&N

the N stands for NEWS!

 

[BigJelly]

holy crap :Q
red sun
greater gravity that would require more molecular density
know what that means?....











Superman is real it's not Gliese 581 c its Krypton.

 

[miketheidiot]

Originally posted by: Jadow

in 1000 years, we'll be able to build a giant ship that can house generations of people to make the journey

this is fundamentally possible now, what we don't have is the will to do it. Can you see someone whose campaign platform being "i'm going to spend 50% of gdp for the next 40 years on a ship to travel through space for 500 years to an uncertain end result" being elected?

 

[Jadow]

Originally posted by: miketheidiot

Originally posted by: Jadow

in 1000 years, we'll be able to build a giant ship that can house generations of people to make the journey

this is fundamentally possible now, what we don't have is the will to do it. Can you see someone whose campaign platform being "i'm going to spend 50% of gdp for the next 40 years on a ship to travel through space for 500 years to an uncertain end result" being elected?

I'd rather vote for that guy than Bush!

 

[GOPhatesUSA]

Wow, thanks for the link. Life under a red sun, 20.4 light years away. I have other stuff to read now THANX !!

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: Jadow

Originally posted by: miketheidiot

Originally posted by: Jadow

in 1000 years, we'll be able to build a giant ship that can house generations of people to make the journey

this is fundamentally possible now, what we don't have is the will to do it. Can you see someone whose campaign platform being "i'm going to spend 50% of gdp for the next 40 years on a ship to travel through space for 500 years to an uncertain end result" being elected?

I'd rather vote for that guy than Bush!

:laugh:

but the whole country did twice. No spaceship for you.

 

[DealMonkey]

Originally posted by: Jadow
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gliese_581_c

First off, they'd better rename this planet ASAP. I think this is really cool. It has an atmosphere, surface area FIVE TIMES the size of earth, 1.6G gravity, sounds like there's a lot of potential.

I predict mankind will eventually live on this planet, even if the journey takes generations.

Once we figure out a way to travel 20+ light years somewhat faster than light does, it'll be awesome!

 

[Jhhnn]

Read the article, guys- the whole thing is highly speculative. "Earth-like" is a term that apparently covers a lot of uninhabitable territory...

 

[Jadow]

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: Jadow

Originally posted by: miketheidiot

Originally posted by: Jadow

in 1000 years, we'll be able to build a giant ship that can house generations of people to make the journey

this is fundamentally possible now, what we don't have is the will to do it. Can you see someone whose campaign platform being "i'm going to spend 50% of gdp for the next 40 years on a ship to travel through space for 500 years to an uncertain end result" being elected?

I'd rather vote for that guy than Bush!

:laugh:

but the whole country did twice. No spaceship for you.

hell, I VOTED for Bush twice. I even donated to his campaign and got to shake his hand. Guilty as charged I guess. I figured, he's a lousy pres, but still better than Gore or the Flip Flopper.

 

[GOPhatesUSA]

Jupiter's moon Titan could have life on it; and it nothing like earth, but much water.

 

[WHAMPOM]

Originally posted by: Jadow

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: Jadow

Originally posted by: miketheidiot

Originally posted by: Jadow

in 1000 years, we'll be able to build a giant ship that can house generations of people to make the journey

this is fundamentally possible now, what we don't have is the will to do it. Can you see someone whose campaign platform being "i'm going to spend 50% of gdp for the next 40 years on a ship to travel through space for 500 years to an uncertain end result" being elected?

I'd rather vote for that guy than Bush!

:laugh:

but the whole country did twice. No spaceship for you.

hell, I VOTED for Bush twice. I even donated to his campaign and got to shake his hand. Guilty as charged I guess. I figured, he's a lousy pres, but still better than Gore or the Flip Flopper.

Your "better than" gauge is upside down.:laugh::thumbsdown:

 

[Jaskalas]

Originally posted by: Jadow
yeah, but imagine what we'll be able to do in 500 or 1000 years, look at where we are today compared to 1000 years ago.

We?ll have world wars that will gut our technological progress. You?ll be alive to witness the next one. Then you might understand that exploring our own star system will be a monuments task in the next thousand years.

in 1000 years, we'll be able to build a giant ship that can house generations of people to make the journey

When a single meteor shard strikes the ship, disabling or blowing it up. Those will be scary times indeed, waiting a couple thousand years to arrive. Then imagine if we got the location wrong and ended up in the middle of nowhere.

 

[wetech]

Originally posted by: BigJelly
holy crap :Q
red sun
greater gravity that would require more molecular density
know what that means?....




Superman is real it's not Gliese 581 c its Krypton.

In seemingly unrelated news...kryptonite has been discovered in Serbia.

Link

coincidence? I think not.

 

[Moonbeam]

We may not be able to go there but they may already have come here.

 

[DealMonkey]

Originally posted by: Moonbeam
We may not be able to go there but they may already have come here.

"They?!?" :Q

 

[Sinsear]

The planet may be tidally locked to its parent star, with one hemisphere always lit and the other always dark. In that case the lit hemisphere might be extremely hot and the dark hemisphere extremely cold, while the small terminator or "gray line" between them might have a moderate climate more suitable for life as we know it.

A theoretical model predicts that volatile elements such as water and carbon dioxide might evaporate in the scorching heat of the sunward side, migrate to the cooler night side, and condense to form ice caps. Over time, the entire atmosphere can become frozen as ice caps on the night side of the planet. Alternatively, if an atmosphere were large enough to be stable, it would circulate the heat more evenly, allowing for a wider habitability area on the surface.

Reminded me of that planet Crematoria from Chronicles of Riddick. I can see the mad dash to the cool side as the sun comes up :laugh:.

 

[jackschmittusa]

As long as the first people we send aren't the missionaries.

 

[ProfJohn]

Look, we now have a new place for all the "I'll move is so and so get elected" types to talk about moving too.

We need to find out if this planet is suffering from Global Warming first though.

 

[OS]

wow, it is only 20 light years away, that is like next door on a cosmological scale.

 

[ProfJohn]

Originally posted by: OS
wow, it is only 20 light years away, that is like next door on a cosmological scale.

The first radio broadcast with enough strength to reach space went out in 1936?
20 years there, 20 years back? hmmmm should have heard back in 1976.

Now that we know it is there we could focus some high power broadcast in that direction and wait 40 years for a reply, pretty amazing stuff.

This leads to an interesting aside:
There was an early sci-fi story about a group of travelers who set out on a 20 year journey to the closest planet. However, when they get there they find man already there waiting for them.
During their 20 year journey technology had advanced so much that man was able to get there faster and essentially ?pass? them in their journey.