The Evil Genius Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 Not to get our hopes up - but this is frickin' cool. :cool: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/12/05/national/w100531S12.DTL#ixzz1fh0huHHa NASA finds planet that's just about right for life 12-05) 10:05 PST WASHINGTON, (AP) -- NASA has found a new planet outside our solar system that's eerily similar to Earth in key aspects. Scientists say the temperature on the surface of the planet is about a comfy 72 degrees. Its star could almost be a twin of our sun. It likely has water and land. It was found in the middle of the habitable zone, making it the best potential target for life yet. Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/12/05/national/w100531S12.DTL#ixzz1fh0zhutl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GibbsFactor Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 Now we have to figure out how to get there. Luckily we still have time before we use up all Tera has to offer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PokerPacker Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 Time to send a crew to check it out and possibly inhabit it. If they plan to reach it alive, they'll have to be put into hibernation. Lets get a crew together and put them on the SS Botany Bay. They'll need to be the best of humanity, so we should use genetic supermen led by Kahn Noonien Singh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EersSkins05 Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 The freaky part to me is that there could be SOOOO many of these out there right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 Now we have to figure out how to get there. Luckily we still have time before we use up all Tera has to offer. Yeah, I'd like to know how far away it is. Oh, and they can tell how warm it is on a planet more than 4 light years away, but they can't even get the weather right here? OK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gchwood Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 Yeah, I'd like to know how far away it is. Oh, and they can tell how warm it is on a planet more than 4 light years away, but they can't even get the weather right here? OK. From what I read in the comments to that article it is ~600 lightyears away. And since we can't travel at the speed of light much less beyond that speed, it is an unattainable location. Secondly the planet may not even exist, because the image that was taken was an image at least 600 years old. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Brave Little Toaster Oven Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 this **** makes my head hurt. and consider me in the crowd that doesnt want to make contact with the outside world...I dont want to become some alien's slave :pfft: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gchwood Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 this **** makes my head hurt.and consider me in the crowd that doesnt want to make contact with the outside world...I dont want to become some alien's slave :pfft: but would you like to make an alien your slave? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RiggosMohawk Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 Maybe the Kepler-22b Redskins have a good QB Seriously though, I've been unable to concentrate on anything other than this since reading the article earlier. Great stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
No Excuses Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 From what I read in the comments to that article it is ~600 lightyears away. And since we can't travel at the speed of light much less beyond that speed, it is an unattainable location. Secondly the planet may not even exist, because the image that was taken was an image at least 600 years old. Planets don't just disappear in a span of 600 years. The star for this sun is similar to ours, meaning that it's still in a very stable stage and will stay so for another couple billion years. They haven't analyzed the planets composition yet because the Kepler telescope doesn't have that power so we don't know for sure if this planet even has liquid or rocky terrain. we do have other telescopes that can do that and we will eventually know soon what the composition is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
endzone_dave Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 Point our radio antenna at it see what they have. Maybe we'll get a few good ideas for a new tv show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ixcuincle Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 Time to send a crew to check it out and possibly inhabit it. If they plan to reach it alive, they'll have to be put into hibernation. Lets get a crew together and put them on the SS Botany Bay. They'll need to be the best of humanity, so we should use genetic supermen led by Kahn Noonien Singh I volunteer to be on this exploratory crew Start a new human settlement Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Brave Little Toaster Oven Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 but would you like to make an alien your slave? did you even have to ask? of course i would! :pfft: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PokerPacker Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 I volunteer to be on this exploratory crewStart a new human settlement we shall call the planet... Ceti Alpha V Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thiebear Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 Morgan Freeman can open a wormhole for us in the next 20 years or so we can ensure to send a few volunteers.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corcaigh Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 Planet Goldilocks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kosher Ham Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 Lets figure out how to save this planet first. Geez. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PokerPacker Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 Lets figure out how to save this planet first. Geez. hippie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichmondRedskin88 Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 this **** makes my head hurt.and consider me in the crowd that doesnt want to make contact with the outside world...I dont want to become some alien's slave :pfft: You never dreamed of dating a hot alien girl with 4 eyeballs and 8 ears ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corcaigh Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 You never dreamed of dating a hot alien girl with 4 eyeballs and 8 ears ? (I Married A) Monster From Outer Space : We walked out - tentacle in hand you could sense that the earthlings would not understand they'd go, nudge nudge when we got off the bus saying it's extra-terrestial - not like us and it's bad enough with another race but **** me, a monster from outer space Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 You never dreamed of dating a hot alien girl with 4 eyeballs and 8 ears ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HailGreen28 Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 The freaky part to me is that there could be SOOOO many of these out there right now.The part of "Contact" I like the best, was the quote: "I'll tell you one thing about the universe, though. The universe is a pretty big place. It's bigger than anything anyone has ever dreamed of before. So if it's just us... seems like an awful waste of space. Right?"---------- Post added December-5th-2011 at 09:55 PM ---------- As a comedian once said: "Why is NASA trying to contact aliens? What if the aliens aren't all nice and cuddly as E.T. was?" Next thing you know, humanity will be wiped out just because NASA wanted to say *Hi!* :ciao: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unforgiven Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 Yeah, I'd like to know how far away it is. Oh, and they can tell how warm it is on a planet more than 4 light years away, but they can't even get the weather right here? OK. I'm sure you were being sarcastic, but it's obviously apples and oranges comparing the average temperature of a planet and the future of unique weather patterns. It's not as hard as you might think once they get the necessary information about the planet. You basically need to find out what makes up the atmosphere of the planet and the mass and volume of the planet. The atmosphere is determined mostly by watching which wavelengths of light pass through it's atmosphere, each element affects light in different ways. The density of the planet is determined by it's mass and volume, the mass is found by watching the doppler effect, you can determine it by the pull it has on it's parent star. The volume is obtained when it eclipses it's parent star, you can see the a dip in luminosity of the star. (Oh yeah, you need to know how close to the star it is also...but that's really basic) They are constantly refining the techniques used to obtain this information so it's becoming much more accurate all the time. Also, for those of you familiar with Star Trek, if you suddenly had a ship that went Warp 7, despite that planet basically being right on top of us at a mere 600 light years away (that's super super close as the universe goes...hell our galaxy alone is over 100,000 light years across), it would still take nearly a year to get there. ---------- Post added December-5th-2011 at 10:34 PM ---------- Oh yeah, if you're curious, the fastest thing we've put in space so far were the Helios probes that traveled at about 157,000 mph top speed. If you averaged that speed, it would take over 2.5 million years to get there. ---------- Post added December-5th-2011 at 10:44 PM ---------- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxfJfv9tirU Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lavarleap56 Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 I would volunteer to go if i could get skins game still. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skin'emAlive Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 I would volunteer to go if i could get skins game still. This man has his priorities straight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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