No one posted because Cheney already has said "ah, um, theres no doubt Sadam has WMD's hidden up there, ah, um", so we need to uh, um, invade".
I wonder if there is life there. If there is, we send all the NEO-CONs there, they can kill off all life and start a tax free zone. I bet they will tell us the natives of that planet hate us for our freedom.
3chordcharlie
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don't you think they would atleast fly by and say hi on their way up there? maybe even give them a lift..
3chordcharlie
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That sounds like something Ray Bradbury would write.
I read that this planet doesn't actually have days and nights due to the way it rotates around its axis and revolves around the sun, the same areas of the planet are always light and always dark. So the light areas are way too hot and the dark areas are way too cold, and life could only really survive in the in-betweens, the ...dare I say it....Twilight Zone.
CaptnKirk
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So you ain't sending me because I prefer that position? That's unfair! I might as well copy the dog! Or maybe copy-cat?
Whoozyerdaddy
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That planet, like this one, is as old as the universe.. 6500 years. There is no way it could be populated with life as God (per the bible) made sure to only include life on this planet. The mysterious planet is question was put there to test our faith. I for one will not fall to that temptation.
Feel better now guys? :roll:
What kind of an idiot would even think to make some sort of RRR fundie remark on a science thread? You guys need help.
angminas
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Where do you get that you can say it has an atmosphere, just like that, no qualifications or maybes? The wiki article actually says this:
"Gliese 581 c has a projected equilibrium surface temperature between 0 °C and 40 °C.[4] However, the actual temperature on the surface depends on the planet's atmosphere, which remains unknown. Xavier Delfosse of the research team expects that the actual surface temperatures will be hotter; for instance, the corresponding calculation for Earth yields an "effective surface temperature" of 256 K (-17 °C), yet Earth's true surface is 32 K warmer, an average of 288 K (15 °C), due to the greenhouse effect of its atmosphere."
Did I miss something, or is this just another case of looks like = must be?
ericlp
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Finding a planet like truly like ours with a moon, placed at a correct distance from the sun with an atmosphere and water is going to be a daunting task. Yes there are billion and billions of galaxy's out there and I believe that there probably are planets like our own. But........ I don't think there are any close by... What we need to do and build a space craft like star trek, and go out and find them... Actually visiting the planet or building some sort of space ship that could get close to the speed of light say maybe even half to speed of light.... 80 year trip!
We know pretty much nothing of this planet. If we sent a probe to this planet it would take 100 years to get there and another 40 years to send back the first picture. Why I applaud the research that has gone into finding a planet at such a great distance. I can't see sending out human or stating that this will be our new home. Would be a bummer if you were the person after spending your entire life waiting to get to this planet to find out the air is unbreathable... or the climate too hostile... or no water all sand....
I imagine that other planets with other life forms are like the size of Jupiter with some strange life forms. Face it... We need a space elevator and establish a Base on the moon. Then we can start building cool ships to cruise around in.... Until then the space shuttle is a joke and is not cutting it...
We know pretty much nothing of this planet. If we sent a probe to this planet it would take 100 years to get there and another 40 years to send back the first picture. Why I applaud the research that has gone into finding a planet at such a great distance. I can't see sending out human or stating that this will be our new home. Would be a bummer if you were the person after spending your entire life waiting to get to this planet to find out the air is unbreathable... or the climate too hostile... or no water all sand....
I imagine that other planets with other life forms are like the size of Jupiter with some strange life forms. Face it... We need a space elevator and establish a Base on the moon. Then we can start building cool ships to cruise around in.... Until then the space shuttle is a joke and is not cutting it...
Muse
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I read the article in the SF Chronicle. It's thought to be quite rocky, the temperature range is pretty big. IOW, they don't know what the temperature is. "Average" temperature is thought to be between around 35 and 104 F. That could be pretty cold or pretty hot. On top of that, one side of the planet is always pointed at their sun, and that makes life pretty tough. Maybe some kind of life at the border, a circular band around the planet or rather at parts of it. Seems to me it could be nowhere as hospitable to life as planet earth.
Well, it is a possibility. They seem to think it could have running water on it's surface. That's quite a thought. Rivers and oceans on a planet 20 light years away.
As for getting there, who knows when science will stumble onto a way to achieve high-speed travel? http://space.newscientist.com/article/mg18925331.200
As for getting there, who knows when science will stumble onto a way to achieve high-speed travel? http://space.newscientist.com/article/mg18925331.200
You can not tell how earth like it is until someone goes there. You cant trust some telescope on an object that far away. Get realistic.
3chordcharlie
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I made a joke... but there's a double-digit percentage of Americans, and maybe even people on this board who believe the word is ~6000 years old.
judasmachine
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see global warming schmarming, we can find a spare planet....
(ignore the whole 1.5x gravity, and the whole how in the he11 are we going to get there part)
(ignore the whole 1.5x gravity, and the whole how in the he11 are we going to get there part)
sao123
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Originally posted by: Jaskalas
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.
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.
Wars seem to leap our technological process ahead by multitudes, I hope I live through the next major one to see the technology it bears.
Siddhartha
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