Earth-like Planet Found!!!

[Double]

Source: http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/09/29/5202633-alien-planet-looks-just-right-for-life

The newfound planet, known as Gliese 581g, is estimated to be 3.1 to 4.3 times as massive as Earth, and makes a complete circuit around its sun in just under 37 days. If the planet has a rocky composition like Earth's, it would be 1.2 to 1.4 times as wide as our own planet, qualifying it as a "super-Earth."

Even more intriguingly, the red dwarf star's dimness and the planet's orbital distance (0.146 AU, less than half the distance between Mercury and our sun) suggest that the planet's average surface temperature is not that far below water's freezing point (somewhere between 10 and -24 degrees Fahrenheit, or -12 and -31 degrees Celsius).

Although that average may sound chilly, the astronomers say Gliese 581g appears to be tidally locked to its star, with one side perpetually in the sun and the other side perpetually dark. That means the highs on the day side would be hellishly hot. The lows on the night side would be unendurably cold. But there would be a livable zone along the line between shadow and light.

"Any emerging life forms would have a wide range of stable climates to choose from and to evolve around, depending on their longitude," Vogt said.

Based on this analysis, Vogt and his colleagues say Gliese 581g is in a planetary zone that is, in the words of the Goldilocks tale, "not too hot and not too cold, but just right" for water to exist somewhere in liquid form. Astrobiologists say that life seems to exist anyplace on Earth that has liquid water, and that such a Goldilocks zone should be conducive to alien life as well. Some astronomers have even proposed that super-Earths could be friendlier to life than our own home world.

"If you're traveling at a tenth of the speed of light, you could reach this thing in 200 years," Vogt told reporters, "Now, you probably wouldn't send humans there, because that would be multiple generations and you'd need a big crew cabin and there wouldn't be much to do for 200 years. But you could send sophisticated robot cameras. Basically, the equivalent of a Droid cell phone would do pretty well. ... In 220 years, if we started now, you would be able to get close-up pictures and a sense of what kind of atmosphere was there, and radio communications, that sort of thing. And it would be a great thing to do with the world's stockpile of nuclear weapons. Just put 'em up on a rocket and send 'em up there."

What do you guys think?

[Bolvarxx]

I know where I'm going....

[Double]

I know where I'm going....

Screw this forsaken planet we call Earth. Right? :D

[Versolian]

Sounds like a long time.

[Double]

Well... at least your grand kids get to see the moment.

[LegendaryEpic]

interesting, nice find :)
only if i was able to live for 200 years to see what happens lol

[captainkeys]

Amazing
+ Rep For The Share

[henslock8]

Interesting, too bad I won't live long enough ... >.<

[afDev]

One generation wouldn't have shit to do... All they would know is the ship they are on and their life would be limited if humans were sent to the planet.

[Double]

If they sent humans BEFORE robots, then that is murder. They don't know for sure, and it could waste an entire human's life to look forward to something that might kill them. For all we know, there could be new elements or something that is deadly to the human being. We should not forget about ADAPTION. New diseases. New life forms, New Terror :D

[G-unit]

everyone who even worked on the project would be way dead before we even got their before we could even send robots we would have to develop a way to travel there effectivly

[Nonsense567]

Worm hole

[expo]

When I want legit scientific news, I go to MSNBC.

[Double]

Yeah, I forgot to edit my post...but, we've yet to find a way to go out farther than Pluto. Without that planet gravitation sling-shot method, we're screwed...

[Nonsense567]

Do you know the difference between a Wormhole and a blackhole

[Cuddles]

Your mom? ^^ Lol jk

[treetree]

The scientists probably knew about this along time ago
and it breaks now,good timing since we
need a new one soon. hahahahah

Here kids you can have the earth now we are done with it
have a good life,btw we have found another one to mess up. :mad:

earth 2 lets global warm the hell out of that one also :mad:

tree /crys

[Nonsense567]

No lol it that black-hole crushes everything even light a wormhole is believe right now to be a Massive black hole big enough with out any crushing effect to be a Rip in space leading out to who know where

[Netherdrake]

When the fuck did an alien planet mysteriously appear in our solar system?

[Syke]

No lol it that black-hole crushes everything even light a wormhole is believe right now to be a Massive black hole big enough with out any crushing effect to be a Rip in space leading out to who know where

A black hole is an extremely dense, dead star with a gravitational field so powerful it doesn't allow Photons to escape. A worm hole (theoretical still, I might add) is a rip or 'hole' in space in time with an entrance at one point and an exit at another. A black hole is not literally a hole, a worm hole is.

[Nonsense567]

True but if you have a Super Massive Blackhole you might get a worm hole because the bigger the hole is less Dense and less singularity is going on

to much to explain don't feel like teaching. Syke you seem to know this crap to so tell them more

[expo]

True but if you have a Super Massive Blackhole you might get a worm hole because the bigger the hole is less Dense and less singularity is going on

to much to explain don't feel like teaching. Syke you seem to know this crap to so tell them more

Wormholes are theoretical. Blackholes are existent.

[Stipt]

3 words, Fake & Gay! There is no proof to back this up.

[expo]

3 words, Fake & Gay! There is no proof to back this up.

"&" is a symbol, not a word.

[Mari0]

"&" is a symbol, not a word.

your mother.

[Krew]

I think the question to think about is "What exactly is the definition for life? An object that can survive on oxygen or carbon dioxide or some other form of matter."

For all we know, the planet may support life but not us as humans.

[Syke]

3 words, Fake & Gay! There is no proof to back this up.

Shut up you crazy fuck. There's no proving anything to you because you refuse to hear it, now leave this thread before you ruin it with the potent aura of failure and retardation that follows you around everywhere you go.

[Stipt]

lol I am just kidding... But I was going to put "And" I just like & better. I seen the whole thing on Fox News lol.

[Syke]

I still think you're crazy.

[Stipt]

I know you do :D lol, its fun to make you mad... its too easy. :P

[Syke]

It's actually quite difficult to make me mad but okay. I can't help if you misread an emotion.

[Faded]

Well let's look at the facts.. How much of our galaxy have we actually explored? 3%?

I'm sure there's SOMETHING else out there...

[Nonsense567]

Whatever happen to planet X it was farther then Pluto but in our Galaxy

[expo]

your mother.

is cooler than your family tree.

[Double]

3 words, Fake & Gay! There is no proof to back this up.

ROTFLMFAO. Of course, leechers would say this. They would not even take the time to research this like I have. Unless you have your own Hubble telescope, then I suggest you shut the fuck up. ITS CALLED GOOGLE BITCHES.

Which brings me to my main line...

Haha...Jesus thinks you're a dumbass.

[Syke]

ROTFLMFAO. Of course, leechers would say this. They would not even take the time to research this like I have. Unless you have your own Hubble telescope, then I suggest you shut the fuck up. ITS CALLED GOOGLE BITCHES.

Which brings me to my main line...

Haha...Jesus thinks you're a dumbass.

Go check out the other threads here in ID, he's not an intelligent person.

[Krew]

is cooler than your family tree.

Amen expo. Amen.

_______________________________

But to be on subject... if there actually was anything in the universe other than us as lifeforms, we would've found it by now. So, sadly to say, we are alone in the whole universe with millions of uninhabitable planets.

[Syke]

We don't even know everything about the Milkyway Galaxy. Our solar system is on one of the arms (it's a Spiral Galaxy) so we have a shit load more to find in our own back yard, let alone the back yard of everyone else. It will be a few centuries before we know enough to safely assume we are alone here.

[Krew]

http://www.ieatbees.com/pics/trolling.jpg

[Shaider]

If this is true, that's insane.

[Reapsen]

Holy fucking piece of shiet! THIZ IS AWESOME!

[Bolvarxx]

But to be on subject... if there actually was anything in the universe other than us as lifeforms, we would've found it by now. So, sadly to say, we are alone in the whole universe with millions of uninhabitable planets.

Just because we can't see life doesn't mean it isn't there.

It could be in microscopic form, it could be gigantic, who knows, but humans aren't the only source of life in all of that space out there.

I mean think about it...

We don't even know what everything is in OUR galaxy.
Then we see millions of other galaxies and billions of stars.
We just can't be the only ones.

[pointblank65]

The scientists probably knew about this along time ago
and it breaks now,good timing since we
need a new one soon. hahahahah

Here kids you can have the earth now we are done with it
have a good life,btw we have found another one to mess up. :mad:

earth 2 lets global warm the hell out of that one also :mad:

tree /crys

I don't know if you were taking a stab at humor or if you were serious. Either way, well played.


But to be on subject... if there actually was anything in the universe other than us as lifeforms, we would've found it by now. So, sadly to say, we are alone in the whole universe with millions of uninhabitable planets.

I am going to go ahead and call shenanigans on that thought.

[Double]

I honestly do think that this planet could contain at least some kind of micro-organism in the terminator zone.

[silver]

For all we know, the planet may support life but not us as humans.

I seen tons of article about transforming one of planet in our solar system to be capable of holding life. It would take about 100 of years just to get a stable atmosphere to hold onto the heat so things could grow. Im not going into details on how this is possible but as our technology improves im sure we at some point would be able to travle there.

Travelling there destroying their atmosphere to create a living one for us would be murderer if there's a civilization living there. But with that huge amount of space im sure we at some point would be able to live there with our home planets plants growing inside buildings to covert our c02 into oxygen.


Im personally very interested in this kind of subjects. Love the fact that we might not be alone in space. But as they stated in the article... There might be 100's of other planets in space supporting life. And if that's the case we got mutch to fear. If other civilizations planets was under global warming as ours they will need to move at some point ff they doesn't fix it. Would they be friendly? Would they terminate us and take our planet? This is a few questions witch we might no get a answer on in our lifetime.


But to be on subject... if there actually was anything in the universe other than us as lifeforms, we would've found it by now. So, sadly to say, we are alone in the whole universe with millions of uninhabitable planets.

And how would we know that there isn't other lifeforms in space?
We might be able to see solar systems lots of light years away but we an't able to see weather they have lifeforms living there or not. What we're able to see is if the planet could support life.

[Xyolexus]

True but if you have a Super Massive Blackhole you might get a worm hole because the bigger the hole is less Dense and less singularity is going on

to much to explain don't feel like teaching. Syke you seem to know this crap to so tell them more

Wrong. A supermassive black
Hole is quite literally a really huge black hole. The closest one is in the middle of The Milky Way. It's around 100,000 miles in diameter. Nowhere near a wormhole.
Just watched Stephen Hawking's Universe's episode on time.

[Krew]

People don't seem to catch on that most of my posts are trollish in nature...

[Double]

Fail Troll is Fail

[Krew]

Fail Troll is Fail

Or you just got trolled... ITS A PARADOX!

[mag1212]

Or you just got trolled... ITS A PARADOX!you're a tool

[Xyolexus]

We don't even know everything about the Milkyway Galaxy. Our solar system is on one of the arms (it's a Spiral Galaxy) so we have a shit load more to find in our own back yard, let alone the back yard of everyone else. It will be a few centuries before we know enough to safely assume we are alone here.

True, there are over 200 BILLION stars in the Spiral Galaxy we know as The Milky Way, and about the same in our neighbouring galaxy, The Andromeda Galaxy.
There's so many galaxies in the universe it's unbelievable, and there could even be other universes, as said by Stephen Hawking. He says that we could move to different universes eventually to avoid either the dark matter beating the gravity and causing The Big Freeze to happen or gravity winning the upper hand and causing The Big Crunch to happen to our own universe.

All I know is that there is some BIG SHIT that's gonna go down.

[expo]

It is a Big Hoax.

[Double]

True, there are over 200 BILLION stars in the Spiral Galaxy we know as The Milky Way, and about the same in our neighbouring galaxy, The Andromeda Galaxy.
There's so many galaxies in the universe it's unbelievable, and there could even be other universes, as said by Stephen Hawking. He says that we could move to different universes eventually to avoid either the dark matter beating the gravity and causing The Big Freeze to happen or gravity winning the upper hand and causing The Big Crunch to happen to our own universe.

All I know is that there is some BIG SHIT that's gonna go down.

You REALLY need to stop smoking weed. Meth is better for the heart.

[Nonsense567]

You REALLY need to stop smoking weed. Meth is better for the heart.

Agreed

[Krew]

you're a tool

A hammer to be specific.

[expo]

Scientists just trolled you guys.

[Krew]

Scientists just trolled you guys.

Technically, "trolling" is only possible on Ac-Web.

So to fix what you said... Scientists just faked them out. Rad!

[Neglected]

Wormholes are theoretical. Blackholes are existent.

This, although the Theory of Relativity says it's possible not a single one has been found. That is probably because the theory of relativity says the worm hole would likely collapse on itself.

[Begeebuz]

Oh shit they found my planet...

[Bobtehnerd]

Oh shit they found my planet...

^ lol

[expo]

This, although the Theory of Relativity says it's possible not a single one has been found. That is probably because the theory of relativity says the worm hole would likely collapse on itself.

Key word in that; "theory".

[Faded]

Not according to Stargate...

[Triple]

GLOBAL WARMING!
http://assets.nydailynews.com/img/2009/04/06/alg_bob_saget.jpg

[Syke]

Bob Saget is a fucking homo.

[AwkwardDev]

The scientists probably knew about this along time ago
and it breaks now,good timing since we
need a new one soon. hahahahah

Here kids you can have the earth now we are done with it
have a good life,btw we have found another one to mess up. :mad:

earth 2 lets global warm the hell out of that one also :mad:

tree /crys

That is what the man says. I support this comment!


True, there are over 200 BILLION stars in the Spiral Galaxy we know as The Milky Way, and about the same in our neighbouring galaxy, The Andromeda Galaxy.
There's so many galaxies in the universe it's unbelievable, and there could even be other universes, as said by Stephen Hawking. He says that we could move to different universes eventually to avoid either the dark matter beating the gravity and causing The Big Freeze to happen or gravity winning the upper hand and causing The Big Crunch to happen to our own universe.

All I know is that there is some BIG SHIT that's gonna go down.

According to any chance of escaping our "home" this is impossible on the natural way. No man that has gone to the galaxy can have kids anymore. :eek:

[Krew]

We're not ruining our planet. We're making cute pictures possible! Therefore, why does it matter if another planet is found. It doesn't matter. :)

http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:Vu7PzR3egaEEXM:http://www.careglobalwarming.com/global-warming1.jpg&t=1

[aoro]

Now All We Need Is A Spaceship that can go really fast lol