They found a planet!

posted on September 30th, 2010, 1:09 pm

Habitable Planet?

I know it's a long shot, but it's still pretty damn cool.

posted on September 30th, 2010, 1:58 pm

Cool!   Lets hope we can visit it in the next 100 years.

[Dircome]

posted on September 30th, 2010, 2:13 pm

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Lets just hope that the blue skinned natives dont kick us out, if we go.

posted on September 30th, 2010, 2:14 pm

:2guns:

posted on September 30th, 2010, 2:25 pm

Lets just hope that the blue skinned natives dont kick us out, if we go.

Avatar part 2 : Take off and nuke the site from orbit

Obviously what happened after everyone left at the end of the film.

posted on September 30th, 2010, 2:27 pm

Its a circling red dwarf (cue music: it's cold outside, theres no kinda atmosphere...).  I'm no exobiologist but I think Red Dwarfs are not prime candidates for having life on orbiting planets.... but hey, i know nothing about it so its probably just yellow star bias on my part.  :D

Still, the more planets there are the better chances of finding life.

posted on September 30th, 2010, 2:41 pm

It is actually a perfect temperature as it is 10times closer to its sun, the only problem is that it is locked, like our moon, so one face is always towards the sun and the other is away.

Oh, and it would take us a really long time to get there too...

posted on September 30th, 2010, 2:55 pm

i dunno seams a little too hot or too cold for my liking  but i uess there cud be plenty of inbetween bits

posted on September 30th, 2010, 3:33 pm

i dunno seams a little too hot or too cold for my liking  but i uess there cud be plenty of inbetween bits

The twilight region where the light and dark sides meet is supposed to be pretty comfortable, say between 60°F and 70°F (15.6°C and 21.1°C).

posted on September 30th, 2010, 3:45 pm

cnt believe i'm gonna say this but i like twlight (deffinatly not the books or movies tho lol)

posted on September 30th, 2010, 5:49 pm

Least "earth-like" 'earth-like' planet.  Ever.

posted on September 30th, 2010, 6:08 pm

It's the most Earth-like planet that we've actually found. You can't expect everything to be a Trek style M-Class planet.

posted on September 30th, 2010, 6:10 pm

well from its description about its location sounds more ideal than earth but then they start saying its a lot closer to the sun than we are and that its orbit is locked so one side lways faces the sun makes it  bif iffy

posted on September 30th, 2010, 6:17 pm

I heard about this on my lunch break i was listening to the online radio on my phone and had the howard stern show on and he said something about this planet they found, his source said the planets temp ranged from -10c to 10c, so its more than suitable for human life.... this is whats the big deal about this thing, love the way he put it tho....

"how the f**k do they find these f**king planets its like 10trillion lightyears away for f**ks sake"

posted on September 30th, 2010, 6:38 pm

red dwarf (cue music: it's cold outside, theres no kinda atmosphere...)

i wonder how many people here watch red dwarf. its personally my favourite comedy show