http://www.llnl.gov/pao/news/news_releases/2006/NR-06-01-08.html
Humm, so 5 times the size of Earth…? I must look further into this. I may be able to use this to my advantage...
Does anyone have anymore information on this?
I know it's just an artist rendering, but.... is it just me, or does the planet look identical to Utapau?
(the final battleground for Obi Wan Kenobi and General Grievous)
European Southern Observatory, "It looks like some serious s%*t is goin' down."
A new planet discovered? I'll best to look it up
EDIT: Old, old, old, old, news dude
It's kinda old news (Jan. 8, 2006), but it's still pretty awesome.
Maybe a long long time ago that planet was inhabited with advanced civilizations, like earth, but their planet became overpopulated, and their star was dying, so they created a giant ship to send people to Earth.
The Ship crash landed, and since people were used to such an advanced culture, they didn't know how to rebuild an advanced civilization on the new planet, and the evolution of technology started all over again, with the ancient ship lost to the depths of History.
Weird my science teacher mentioned this today too…I wonder why if it's such old news.
Anyway, it's pretty exciting regradless.
_ Originally Posted by mr.allsunday
Nice job jumping on the bandwagon there Aethos, I can only wish I was as cool as you_
Weird my science teacher mentioned this today too…I wonder why if it's such old news.
Anyway, it's pretty exciting regradless.
So did mine… wtf... do we have the same teacher!? XD Anyway, I could have sworn she said it was JUST descovered... maybe I posted the wrong article... :wassat:
I remember hearing about this a long time ago. I was sad that it had taken the place of Pluto, solely because I like the name Pluto.
I'll probably here about this in my science class soon.
It seems you may have. Here is a link to an article about the new discovery of an Earth-like planet that may support life.
o.o ohh sweet. That planet looks like… Yavin 4 =D
Thank you, Mr. Mario
All of our problems are solved?
Except we'll all turn far shorter and wider due to the gravity being so tremendous.
All of our problems are solved?
Except we'll all turn far shorter and wider due to the gravity being so tremendous.
Well, it's not that much of a difference… Not like, Venus, or Jupter. Plus, we would probably live in a protective bubble, if we were there.
All of our problems are solved?
Except we'll all turn far shorter and wider due to the gravity being so tremendous.
Actually, if we were to get shorter, it would be unnoticeable, however, we would get considerably stronger.
EDIT: Here's a list of 694 articles for this discovery. Lobster, why don't you choose a few more pictures?
It's cool and all, but people kinda forget with this kind of news that interstellar travel on this kind of scale is impossible. Or at the least, not remotely feasible.
So even if there are aliens there, we won't be meeting in any useful capacity for a few thousand years.
True, and that they couldn't even be there anymore. IIRC my science teacher was saying that the light we see are millions of light years old so that what we could be seeing now is that that's solar system's star could have burned out by now in current time and if there was life they could all be dead by now anyway.
_ Originally Posted by mr.allsunday
Nice job jumping on the bandwagon there Aethos, I can only wish I was as cool as you_
The only danger is if it's that terrible planet of the apes
True, and that they couldn't even be there anymore. IIRC my science teacher was saying that the light we see are millions of light years old so that what we could be seeing now is that that's solar system's star could have burned out by now in current time and if there was life they could all be dead by now anyway.
… The star is 20 light years away. Do you know how light years work?
. . . . . . . . . . . . . .Credo quia absurdum non credere. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
While there's always been a chance to find another Earth-like planet, the fact that they found one only 20 light years away is what amazes me the most. In terms of the size of the galaxy, that is ridiculously close, practically a block away. Give a little more time for rocket technology to further advance, and you've got a realistic chance sending probes and, dare I say, people one day.
Yeah its a pretty big discovery. The biggest discovery isnt that we found a planet like that, but they found it so fast and from such a dim star thanks to the new observation technology that people began to use like 3 months ago. Its a milestone in front of many that are sure to come as they find more and more planets that are likely hospitable for life.
And just to clarify… the images they are seeing are only 20 years old in terms of what we are seeing from the past (since 20 light years means... it took that light 20 years to reach here). There could always have been a drastic problem that could occur on that planet in that time... but for the sake general geological standard time, what we see from that planet is probably what will be there even 20 more years down the road.
Now lets get that new propulsion technology up to match with this discovery :3 (there trying to research anti-matter propulsion that is hypothetically supposed to go 1/4th the speed of light.... that means it would ONLY take 80 years to reach with that type of propulsion >.>... yeah not happening soon lol)
While there's always been a chance to find another Earth-like planet, the fact that they found one only 20 light years away is what amazes me the most. In terms of the size of the galaxy, that is ridiculously close, practically a block away. Give a little more time for rocket technology to further advance, and you've got a realistic chance sending probes and, dare I say, people one day.
Wouldn't it take like 20 years with lightspeed? Unless we discover a way to go at least near the speed of light we aren't sending anything even remotely close to that thing.
"Sleep brings no rest to me; The shadows of the death my wakening eyes may never see surround my bed"-Emily Bronte(The Horrors of Sleep)
@VL7:
Wouldn't it take like 20 years with lightspeed? Unless we discover a way to go at least near the speed of light we aren't sending anything even remotely close to that thing.
It's still a helluva lot closer than the other planets they've found that are several million light years away. I'd say that it's a realistic idea that in the future, and I'm not saying near future here, I'm talking somewhat distant future, that people may possibly travel to this planet. Of course Probes would be sent first to check out if the planet is indeed inhabitable.
GASP! It's Mondas! Finally back XD (For all those who aren't in the know, Mondas is from the Doctor Who serial, the Tenth Planet, where it was thrown out of our solar system billions upon billions of years ago)
Anyways yea, its old news, I do believe there was a topic on this last year aswell.
Odd.
Wikipedia just put it into it's news.
My science teacher says there is the possibility of other element based lifeforms instead of the boring carbon base.
Question: We are looking at it from twenty years ago, so (hypothetically) if we deployed some unlucky bastard, his view of it would speed up, right?
Question: We are looking at it from twenty years ago, so (hypothetically) if we deployed some unlucky bastard, his view of it would speed up, right?
First of all, with our current technology, we couldn't send an unlucky bastard and think that he'll get there in 20 years.
However, if we had technology to travel at or close to 99% the speed of light, then it's true, he would take longer to age, and a 40 year round trip to this guy might seem like a couple of days, but chances are all of his friends and family back on Earth would be no longer around when he gets back, since Time moved onwards without him.
Which is why, if they were to send people to this planet, if it is indeed inhabitable, they would send a colony of people, not just the highly scientific minds, but the hard working construction people, the doctors, the mechanics, real average Joe type people.
I think it would be funny, if we just sent a bunch of people to colonate the planet, and when they arive, they find out, it is already inhabited. "oops, sorry guys, our bad" 
Kind of like taking a seat in a theater, only to find out, someone was sitting there already.
Local, did you read the whole thread? the wrong atricle was posted at first.
If somebody get's a grazy idea to send people to colonate the planet… does the planet have a name already? I wouldn't want to live in a planet with a silly name. Anyway, so let's say Chinese get's a grazy idea to send a colony - they should have a few spare citizen - will the planet belong to Chinese then? It would be like the Capitalistic planet of China (it would probably rebel against China after a while and demand independence).
I think it would be funny, if we just sent a bunch of people to colonate the planet, and when they arive, they find out, it is already inhabited. "oops, sorry guys, our bad"
Local, did you read the whole thread? the wrong atricle was posted at first.
The problem with colonating planets is that its gonna be so tough to actually maintain it, since if anything happens, there is no way to get anything out to them, I could see it now, if for some bizzarre reason an alien does decide to invade there and they actually manage it and such, and they communicate with us, by the time we reach there, everyone will be dead.
I think it would be funny, if we just sent a bunch of people to colonate the planet, and when they arive, they find out, it is already inhabited. "oops, sorry guys, our bad"
Local, did you read the whole thread? the wrong atricle was posted at first.
Haven't you heard of migration?
I dunno, if we are going to move to the planet, then we need to know if its got everything we need to survive. Hell, I think if it doesn't, then I'd be suprised to see aliens on there too, although its maybe possible.
If there is life already living on that planet and they've been monitoring us for a while, then I can bet you 5,000 grand that they won't tell us how their technology works.
Why? Well, because we'll use it to kill our own race, that's why.
Let's send them the entire One Piece archive as a 'Welcome to the Universe' gift.
Oh, and Buuhan's head.
Holy hole in a doughnut, Batman!
If there is life already living on that planet and they've been monitoring us for a while, then I can bet you 5,000 grand that they won't tell us how thewir technology works.
Who says they know of us? In fact, who even said that they were intelligent beings?! And that's even IF there's any life on that planet already.
personally, I'd say ANY sort of life on that planet would count as intellegant, sure they may not be as intellegant as us, but if they are alive, then they have the survival instinct, which makes em intellegant.
Personally, if they know of us, AND they are watching us, AND they have gotten speech working and all, and if they DO manage to get all the way over here, I dun see why they wouldn't share their stuff, I mean, if they do all that, then I seriously doubt they'll want to kill us and use our planet.
How do we know it's not the planet Xenu is from? He might try to incinarate us and brainwash our soul.
If I think I'm insane, does it mean I'm not? Because a truly insane person wouldn't know that they are insane?
well unless he evolved from Apes like we did, I seriously doubt that he'd even exist.
If there is life already living on that planet and they've been monitoring us for a while, then I can bet you 5,000 grand that they won't tell us how thewir technology works.
Why? Well, because we'll use it to kill our own race, that's why.
Let's send them the entire One Piece archive as a 'Welcome to the Universe' gift.
Oh, and Buuhan's head.
I'm an idiot, why not your head? XD
It'd be funny if the world is populated and they have message boards talking about us here just like this.
However, if we had technology to travel at or close to 99% the speed of light, then it's true, he would take longer to age, and a 40 year round trip to this guy might seem like a couple of days, but chances are all of his friends and family back on Earth would be no longer around when he gets back, since Time moved onwards without him.
Have you ever read anything by Orson Scott Card by any chance?
This is pretty interesting, exactly how long would it take for a probe to get to this planet? It'd be pretty cool if we could get there before I die (unlikely).
Eh, I doubt there's life on this planet.
It's such a rare occurrence.
Still it's interesting. I'm always interested about discoveries in astronomy. Even if we can't ever go to these places they are very interesting to learn about.
I think it would be amusing if a race amd econtact with us and they were superior in space travel but that would prtety much be it. So we would be the superior species.
I think it would be amusing if a race amd econtact with us and they were superior in space travel but that would prtety much be it. So we would be the superior species.
Oh please, we're not even the superior species on earth.
Good question… but if it is icy earth like planet.... then what would the point living there....wouldn't we freeze to death?.....no sunlight=no light=no sythessis for plants=no life.... self expalnitory(the ice planet of course). As for other planets farther away outside of our galaxy then maybe if we devloped the technology for it thought i doubt those places are uninhabitated. People or some form of beings probably live there already and i doubt they would welcome us with open arms. i predict if we ever do ever travel light speed, with our current form of technology and the way we discover things i predict the earliest and i mean earliest time we will discover the way to do this is in 300 years.
My science teacher says there is the possibility of other element based lifeforms instead of the boring carbon base.
Silicon's most likely. I've heard about this a ton of times, like, the possibility of silicon-based life-forms. Silicon is a lot like carbon, so it's not impossible.
t Goldeneye: It was said that this icy planet had a red dwarf star as its "sun."
@Roz:
Silicon's most likely. I've heard about this a ton of times, like, the possibility of silicon-based life-forms. Silicon is a lot like carbon, so it's not impossible.
t Goldeneye: It was said that this icy planet had a red dwarf star as its "sun."
ahh my bad thx for the fix up roz
Life is nothing more than game that you can only play once.
But then Superman will lose all his powers =(
Isn't red sun radiation deadly?
Silicon's most likely. I've heard about this a ton of times, like, the possibility of silicon-based life-forms. Silicon is a lot like carbon, so it's not impossible.
t Goldeneye: It was said that this icy planet had a red dwarf star as its "sun."
There are already silicon-based life forms.
Pamela Anderson for example.
You must crawl before you can walk.
One step at a time. We will just be the building blocks for future generations.
yeah im here
You must crawl before you can walk.
One step at a time. We will just be the building blocks for future generations.
I don't understand those "deep" and "meaningful" proverb-spouting people who act as if our generation is still young and the next generation will accomplish much more so we should leave it up to them.
Which is bullshit, we should go as forward as possible.
Yes, let's make an army of fusion baby clone Jesus, Hitler and Michael Jordan's already, on with progress.
