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Oh man, we've got possible aliens guys.

No its said to support any kind of life or yeah. Even just bacteria (which their searching for on mars. >.>)
still needs liquid water to live. which is what earth/now here? have.

oh well. this is cool! i was getting tired about mars. Xd.
 
countryemo said:
No its said to support any kind of life or yeah. Even just bacteria (which their searching for on mars. >.>)
still needs liquid water to live. which is what earth/now here? have.

oh well. this is cool! i was getting tired about mars. Xd.
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Um, I'm pretty sure we don't know how other species other than the ones on Earth live. So therefore we can only really say it supports life as we know it.
 
This is really interesting! :) I've been interested in space for a long time! :) I think it would be possible to support some sort of life on that planet. Surely. What I find slightly annoying is that it's still going to take a while to get there and that it doens't have an axis.. :/
 
Forever said:
On TV they said one side was too hot, and the other too cold... even though light/dark can be fixed, as mentioned, what about fixing the heat and the extreme cold? I know we could use heaters and blankets, etc, but effectively it would be like living in Antartica all the time (which would be fine for some) or living right next to the equator (in comparison to Earth right now).

Yeah if Earth exploded we could live in the middle of the planet or something, but that would only be the survivors and... would be a terrible way of life, tbh. Unless there is some way to actually get the new planet to rotate, but that's unlikely.

I vote we find a planet closer to us. :D

Though in general, it is good to have a backup though, just... not a perfect one. XD;
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It's not actually that cold. It would just be like living in winter and late autumn year round.

Guillermo said:
Just because it can support human life, doesn't mean it can support alien life. Alien lifeforms might need totally different conditions to survive, so we've probably got aliens everywhere else too. :D
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...Alien lifeforms that evolve on a planet can, by definition, survive in those conditions; this planet can support life that we're familiar with though.
 
Seems pretty cool. It'll be interesting if they actually do find life there.
 
That's pretty totally awesome! I'd heard that some planets that orbit Red Dwarfs can be locked with one side facing the sun and always thought it would be quite cool to see what sort of creatures would evolve on such a planet.

If only we had the technology to get there in a reasonable amount of time, I would so want to go there. The "shirt-sleeve weather" sounds like my kind of weather (and rather like England actually). I suppose I would probably miss winter though, if it was slightly warmer on the other side (maybe on the vertical equator?) it would be cool to visit.
Zet said:
Interestingly enough, Bungie used that planet in their last halo game 'Halo Reach' as the planet Reach. :P
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Seriously? If we do ever send probes or what have you there, then that should definitely be it's colloquial name (kinda like Mars instead of Sol-4). If it was the first planet outside the Sol system that we colonised, then that would be a very strange parallel with the Halo universe...
 
It would be cool if this is where dead people go. :D

What the frick did I just say.
 
Oh, awesome. Night owls will finally have their own side of the planet.
A friend of mine says that the voyage should take some 50 years, but personally, I don't see much problem in moving planets when the technology allows it.
 
Guys, the more important matter we need to discuss is... how are we going to get there?

If the planet is 20 light years away from Earth, then there's no way we can get there soon. We can't even put astronauts on Mars yet, so the chances of seeing civilizations being built on this new planet might not happen for a while now. Also, the expenses of getting there would indefinitely cost more than an average person's lifetime.

Also, it take years for someone to be suitable for space traveling. Whoever that's interested in this exploration would have to go through extreme training for several years.
 
Didn't they also find a laser signal coming from the system the planet's in?
 
BHwolfgang said:
Guys, the more important matter we need to discuss is... how are we going to get there?

If the planet is 20 light years away from Earth, then there's no way we can get there soon. We can't even put astronauts on Mars yet, so the chances of seeing civilizations being built on this new planet might not happen for a while now. Also, the expenses of getting there would indefinitely cost more than an average person's lifetime.

Also, it take years for someone to be suitable for space traveling. Whoever that's interested in this exploration would have to go through extreme training for several years.
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Well once the plasma engines scientists are developing are put into use, then a trip to Mars will be a matter of months, not years, so that's definitely a step in the right direction. Seeing as it'll probably be centuries before we invent FTL travel (or even near-light speed), so I think what we need is to perfect cryogenic freezing. I mean, we can easily freeze someone. It's the thawing out we're no good out. Being 20 light-years (or 117,569,996,200,000 miles) away, it'll be a bloody long time until we'd here anything back from either the probes or astronauts if we don't go FTL. Mind you even if we did, it'd be faster just to come back and tell everyone than to send a radio message and wait 20 years.
 
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hmm.........i read this article too....though since it doesn't turn on it's axis there is a very small part of this planet that we could possibly live on....one side's too cold and one too hot... right in the middle is just right..(whose that remind u of?)

also about the person above me's last thought... radio waves dont travel that far...all radio signals from earth only last about 2 years into space before dissipating i think...
 
Wow, they finally found a planet that might have life.
BHwolfgang said:
Guys, the more important matter we need to discuss is... how are we going to get there?

If the planet is 20 light years away from Earth, then there's no way we can get there soon. We can't even put astronauts on Mars yet, so the chances of seeing civilizations being built on this new planet might not happen for a while now. Also, the expenses of getting there would indefinitely cost more than an average person's lifetime.

Also, it take years for someone to be suitable for space traveling. Whoever that's interested in this exploration would have to go through extreme training for several years.
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I'm pretty sure they're developing a new system or engine that they can use that will make things much faster. I think I read it in some article a while ago....
 
That's great. The next thing I want to know is how an alien multiplies.
 
Good god, that's amazing. Finally, we come across another Earth for the very first time. I'll totally keep myself updated on this fascinating discovery.

I would totally jump out of my skin if they were able to find life there though. Too bad it's light years away. I think I'd be six feet under when they finally have the technology to get there.
 
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