Earth like planet discovered

http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2007/pr-22-07.html

Only 20,5 lightyears away, temprature between 0 and 40 degrees Celcius, bla bla bla
conclusion: this might be a planet with live on it.

 

Right we just need someone invent a jumpdrive, warp drive or some other way of getting there.

 

Well, the thing im working on in my back garage may be ready soon... It involves a microwave, a bricklin, and 20.83$ worth of tin-foil, and trekkies guide to warp propulasion

 

Dont worry everyone, I just did the math

If we launch the nuclear missiles now they'll arrive in a little over 76,000 years...

 

That would be fun...

"Our civilization has long vanished, but don't worry, we left you a message." Cue nuclear apocalypse.

Seriously though, this is a pretty crucial breakthrough. Of course it will be long before we figure out a way to do anything with the information we've gathered (if ever), but at least we'll know where to start once we do.

 

Well, i have the Stargate chevrons of that planet, however i haven't paid my electric bill the past months :lol:


I'm willing to bet that the past 2 day's every radiotelescope is pointed on Gliese 581c. Nice, as soon we get one signal that isn't direct explainable then every scientist is going to be mad.
Let's see, radioelektric waves travel at light speed, so that means that aliens at Gliese 581c will see TVshows dated from 1987, on every channel, for FREE. The univers can be so unfare.

 

Should I be the party-pooper who points out that all this is is the discovery of a planet which seems capable of sustaining as we know it on this planet. Far too many people (not here particularly) seem to think that this now means that 'First Contact' is now imminent. Keep your eyes open for guys with pointy ears and a tendancy to logic. :roll:

 

I want to know why we haven't been visited by extra-terrestrial civilisations thousands of years behind our own!

 

well ..dave , first they have to invent the wheel ...then they have to figure out how to make the wheel fly really fast and be able to hover and such ...we have got the wheel science pretty well pegged here on earth but not the flying and hovering bit quite yet ...( also our wheels tend to produce lottsa hydro carbons which may unfortunately preclude us ever getting to the flying and hovering part ) ...dang it !!!

 

Yeah but why haven't we got THEIR TV programmes? They must have something better than re-runs of The A-Team

 

i pity the fool who watches A team reruns...

 

This is certainly exciting as the first planet detected which could support life as we know it, Jim. Well, maybe a little squashed by the double gravity.

Of course, whether or not there is actually any life there is anybody's guess - we don't have enough data to make any prediction.

And even if there is life, it might just be simple unicellular stuff, as existed on Earth for hundreds of millions of years.

And even if complex animals have developed there, it's worth bearing in mind that complex animals existed on Earth for hundreds of millions of years before an intelligence capable of developing technology developed - that happened only about 200,000 years ago. And modern humans spent 190,000 years basically living like animals, before they developed the first civilisation - which has led to technology sufficiently advanced to detect planets around other stars only in the last couple of years.

Have patience, bretheren.

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Or perhaps we have stumbled upon another of God's creations.

 

They might have the ZORK-team

double gravity, well, that wouldn't be so bad. If we ever (in the next million year or so) get to that planet we would be capable to walk on the surface. You will only have a double weight but look on the bride side, no more fitness needed if you go from 80 to 160 kilo and try to walk smoothly. 1 push up exercise equals 2 earth push ups.
And hereby i clame the damm rock as Quillins fitness planet.

Most scientist would already be very happy if the only life form on such a planet would be a small microbe. because all live on earth did evolve from microbes.

 

Yeah but if the surface gravity is twice that of Earth then anyone falling over would hit as if they'd fallen from twice the actual height - broken bones would be rife.

 

and who we can sue for that?

 

Or bones (assuming an endoskeletal structure) would be twice as strong...

 

We need to test something like that. If i build a gravity chamber that can produce twice times the earth gravity, would you guys be prepared to fall down in it?

It's not for me, it's for science

 

"And he saw that it was good, but after a while he did get terribly bored, so he took a second job on the side, and now he's enjoying a double pension"

 

If my species evolved in such an environment over the course of 100,000 years, that would be another matter...