New Earth found!

Sorry if this has been posted already...I checked a few pages back and didn't see anything. 

Scientists found a new planet that is more similar to Earth than any other planet, that revolves around a different sun.  Its a really interesting read.  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/technology/technology.html?in_article_id=450467&in_page_id=1965

A few quotes from it if you don't feel like reading the entire article... 

"It is difficult to speculate what - if any - life there is on the planet. If there is life there it would have to cope with the higher gravity and solar radiation from its sun.

Just because Gliese 581c is habitable does not mean that it is inhabited, but we do know its sun is an ancient star - in fact, it is one of the oldest stars in the galaxy, and extremely stable. If there is life, it has had many billions of years to evolve."

"It's got the same climate as Earth, plus water and gravity. A newly discovered planet is the most stunning evidence that life - just like us - might be out there."

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anyway, yup, thats cool

Too bad humans couldnt live on it, just a slight unbalance in sun radiation and gravity would not permit human life, and I highly doubt theres oxygen there
Mindlessworks

Cool, Yea I saw that on msn... Mabye if we get a probe out soon we'll find out if there is any life there in...ohh....8000years!!!scout10101

They say that there should be a telescope in orbit that will be able to figure it out by 2020.  Thats not too far off! 

I can imagine a world of love, peace, and no wars. Then I imagine myself attacking that place because they would never expect it.

• Jack Handey

Thats my plan

I saw that on discovery channel.  It is really cool.  That would be cool if there were humans like us there, either more or less advanced than us.  That would be nice in my life-time if I could go there. FLSTS

I wouldn't count on it, lol. It would be funny to walk on surface with double our gravity.

 

"It's got the same climate as Earth, plus water and gravity. A newly discovered planet is the most stunning evidence that life - just like us - might be out there."

Mumbles527

Wow, that's pretty craaaazy.  Too bad the closest star to us is like 4 light years away. 

Even if there are lifeforms on it right now we wont be able to tell sinse they are that far away. So we would be looking back in time on them pretty much. remote22222

    Man it would be one of the greatest discoveries ever if we found life on that planet.. It would answer many many uncertainties in the science community.

Wow, that's pretty craaaazy. Too bad the closest star to us is like 4 light years away.

helium_flash

Yeah, this ones even farther. 20.5 light years away, or 120,000,000,000,000 miles. 

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Wow, that's pretty craaaazy. Too bad the closest star to us is like 4 light years away.

Mumbles527

Yeah, this ones even farther. 20.5 light years away, or 120,000,000,000,000 miles.

road trip anyone? Dont forget the DS and PSP`s! 

4 light years..........hmm i wonder how long it would take for me to get there by bicycle?.....haha jkchimo111

lance armstrong is already said to be on his way.

Now this is something I must keep my eye on.luke1889

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Wow, that's pretty craaaazy. Too bad the closest star to us is like 4 light years away.

jfkunrendered

Yeah, this ones even farther. 20.5 light years away, or 120,000,000,000,000 miles.

road trip anyone? Dont forget the DS and PSP`s!

Its denser so it makes sense it has more gravity.

However, if there is life, it has evolved and found ways to protect itself from the UV rays of the sun. Maybe they feed off it? you never know... organic compounds can draw energy from practically anything if it evolved for it. 

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Wow, that's pretty craaaazy. Too bad the closest star to us is like 4 light years away.

Mumbles527

Yeah, this ones even farther. 20.5 light years away, or 120,000,000,000,000 miles.

The oceans once seemed to be impassable barriers to exploration. Assuming our species survives long enough, odds are we'll discover a way to navigate the vastness of space efficiently and safely.

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Wow, that's pretty craaaazy. Too bad the closest star to us is like 4 light years away.

pianist

Yeah, this ones even farther. 20.5 light years away, or 120,000,000,000,000 miles.

The oceans once seemed to be impassable barriers to exploration. Assuming our species survives long enough, odds are we'll discover a way to navigate the vastness of space efficiently and safely.

I'm not worried about that, advances in technology seem to be limitless as long as theres something to motivate the research.  I just wish it were even slightly feasible to have it happen within my lifetime. 

[QUOTE="Mindlessworks"]Too bad humans couldnt live on it, just a slight unbalance in sun radiation and gravity would not permit human life, and I highly doubt theres oxygen there
Mumbles527

Cool, Yea I saw that on msn... Mabye if we get a probe out soon we'll find out if there is any life there in...ohh....8000years!!!scout10101

They say that there should be a telescope in orbit that will be able to figure it out by 2020.  Thats not too far off! 

Imagine in the future, humans build a HUGE ship that carries tons of people to travel to the new planet. The ship is so big that people live, reproduce on it for years. And then humans can inhabit the new planet :oAccount_27

Think about this... Maybe millions of years ago humans came from THAT planet on a spaceship and landed on THIS earth. Over the years we've populated this planet and grown as a species, only to one day gain the technology to return to that planet never having known that it was our origin to begin with.

And then your head explodes.