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| goober |
  Posted 25th Apr 2007 11:25am |  |
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I woke up this morning to find this topic.
Potentially Habitable Planet Found!
I was amazed when i saw the title, and even more amazed when i kept reading.
This discovery could acually be the one thing that changes the world forever.
What's everyone's opinions? |
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| RED-FROG |
Posted 25th Apr 2007 1:37pm | |
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Just saw it on TV
I heard it takes the light 20years to travel from earth to it.
So not very useful for human living 
It means that it would take 20+years for a spaceship that travels with lightspeed..and thats impossible anyway.
We would need a spaceship to live on for many generations. Doh that's no life. |
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| Hapa Hanu |
Posted 25th Apr 2007 3:24pm |
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As far as habitibility is concerned - there was no mention if Gliese 581 is part of a binary star system. If there is a sister star, that could complicate things.
The good news, red dwarves are fairly stable long burning entities. So if we did take the 20 light year voyage it would likely be there when we get there. 
The chemistry of the planet concerns me tho. Those oceans that have been alluded to - is it water or is it something like ammonia?
Its hard to speculate, I need more information. |
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Posted 25th Apr 2007 3:53pm |
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| Quoting REDFROG | Just saw it on TV
I heard it takes the light 20years to travel from earth to it.
So not very useful for human living
It means that it would take 20+years for a spaceship that travels with lightspeed..and thats impossible anyway.
We would need a spaceship to live on for many generations. Doh that's no life. |
a lightyear is a measure of distance, not time o-o |
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| goober |
Posted 25th Apr 2007 3:59pm | |
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Well, im at school now and i havent heard anything about it... shows you how much people care
Ill do some investigating when i get home  |
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| Assaultman67 |
Posted 25th Apr 2007 4:49pm | |
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| Quoting OutlawSkot33 | | Quoting REDFROG | Just saw it on TV
I heard it takes the light 20years to travel from earth to it.
So not very useful for human living
It means that it would take 20+years for a spaceship that travels with lightspeed..and thats impossible anyway.
We would need a spaceship to live on for many generations. Doh that's no life. |
a lightyear is a measure of distance, not time o-o |
true, but using the speed of light we can determine that it would take 20+(including acceleration) years to get there ...
there are alot of theoretical engines that could reach half the speed of light ... the closest of which we are producing is the solar sail ... but thats still a 80+ year journey round trip ... and at that speed and distance radio communication would be impossible 
I don't think that we would be even close to being able to build a generational ship ... it would
I think that insanity wouldn't be a stranger  ...
I think we have a better chance terraforming mars first ... we simply haven't developed enough to do stuff like that ... |
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| RED-FROG |
Posted 25th Apr 2007 5:05pm | |
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| Quoting OutlawSkot33 | | Quoting REDFROG | Just saw it on TV
I heard it takes the light 20years to travel from earth to it.
So not very useful for human living
It means that it would take 20+years for a spaceship that travels with lightspeed..and thats impossible anyway.
We would need a spaceship to live on for many generations. Doh that's no life. |
a lightyear is a measure of distance, not time o-o |
True, you read that on wiki, right?
That planet is 20lightyears away, that means if somebody jumped on it it takes 20years until we can see him jumping while looking at him from earth.
But travelling with lightspeed is something different, I forgot about the time, it'd slow down for the passengers who travel at lightspeed, and speed up for the people on earth. Oh well, I don't understand that but thats a fact 
| Quoting Assaultman67 | | I think we have a better chance terraforming mars first ... we simply haven't developed enough to do stuff like that ... |
When that happens we must never let a corporation called Ultor take control over it.
No...wait, there will be Parker, anyway.
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| Molodiets |
Posted 25th Apr 2007 6:04pm |
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100 years is so small compared to mankind.
Send a crew of famillies and let them reproduce in space. Their children will reach the destination. |
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| DVL_IAC |
Posted 25th Apr 2007 8:03pm | |
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Heard this on coast to coast am last night before I fell asleep. It's quite interesting.  |
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| sobe |
Posted 25th Apr 2007 8:25pm |
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Actually, if that is the planet I'm thinking of, which was codenamed, Planet X at the time, then it's old news. Known about it for around 1 1/2yrs or longer now. I believe since '04 or '05. Funny how they now bring it up to light. |
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| RED-FROG |
Posted 25th Apr 2007 8:32pm | |
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I think they call this one "C"
Not sure. |
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| sobe |
Posted 25th Apr 2007 8:40pm |
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Well, the "planet x" that it was so-called, was supposedly able to sustain human life, as well as having a red dwarf for a star. I dunno, this one could be a totally different planet. |
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| D2k |
Posted 25th Apr 2007 9:09pm |
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| Quoting REDFROG | Just saw it on TV
I heard it takes the light 20years to travel from earth to it.
So not very useful for human living
It means that it would take 20+years for a spaceship that travels with lightspeed..and thats impossible anyway. |
You don't know that... Scientists and theoretical physics don't know that for certian either because none of them have actually tried it. |
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