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- rpi22, on 02/19/2008, -2/+219There's another earth on the exact opposite side of the sun in the same orbit. It's always blocked by the sun so our astronomers can't see it. The thing is that everything is backwards there.... it's true, i saw it on the Twilight Zone.
- ennTOXX, on 02/19/2008, -3/+120*** "...haul one of those babies into our orbit, defrost it, and start populating..." *** ok, you lost me there... :||
- Spartan900, on 02/19/2008, -1/+94Just get on with terraforming Mars already!
- atdigg, on 02/19/2008, -2/+66why not just move a star closer to it?
- neocognitism, on 02/19/2008, -3/+66You'd need a rather considerable source of thrust to nudge something like a planet around. Also, you'd ***** all the other orbits and doom Earth for sure within some cosmically short period of time.
- daivos, on 02/19/2008, -1/+63To hell with unfreezing and colonizing. Think of the oil that might be there.
- brstilson, on 02/19/2008, -3/+58Because that would be ridiculous
- fluidfoundation, on 02/19/2008, -1/+43Sounds like a great idea until after the thing thaws and we have a bunch of extraterrestrial penguins pissed WAY the ***** off and they slingshot our asses pack to the Oort cloud.
- thcobbs, on 02/19/2008, -0/+39You'll be the first person to hear "Not if you were the last man on EITHER planet!"
- charliejane, on 02/19/2008, -1/+37Dood it's just like a frozen TV dinner, you just get it in the right orbit and microwave it, an d it'll be good to go.
- snoonoo, on 02/19/2008, -0/+36Looking for partner to populate the second Earth with. PM me.
- degron, on 02/19/2008, -2/+28I just updated my plans for world domination...build ship, steal planet and become only inhabitant. I win!
- mpfarmer, on 02/19/2008, -0/+24This makes me want to play Spore.
- jaymzdean, on 02/19/2008, -2/+25Will it defrost faster if we just place it in a bowl of warm water?
- mortigon, on 02/19/2008, -1/+23I bet on that planet, they all have mustaches
- RevJonathan, on 02/19/2008, -1/+19You just need all the robots to vent exhaust on an island somewhere.
- NavS, on 02/19/2008, -2/+19or we could build a paper mache copy and lure everyone with free t-shirts...
- TenebrousX, on 02/19/2008, -1/+15except the incredible heat, acidic atmosphere, and air pressure hundreds of times that of Earth
- davidlow, on 02/19/2008, -0/+13Just ram the planet with another large planet, preferable a white, featureless sphere. You can do this by hitting the white one with the tip of a large space rod.
- admiral101, on 02/19/2008, -0/+12Why would it need to be massive?
Many comets are in the Oort belt and they are much less massive then a planet.
By your logic Pluto can't exist as it isn't massive. - OHaloThar, on 02/19/2008, -1/+12facepalm.jpg
- inactive, on 02/19/2008, -0/+10Batteries not included. Some assembly required.
- coyote1284, on 02/19/2008, -1/+11We'd need genetically modified slaves to start it, but then they'd inevitably revolt and claim their superiority because they can survive in extreme conditions while we'd need mech suits to keep up. So we'd have to build 5 robots that combine into a bigger robot to fight the aliens that left the technology on Earth in the first place. No, terraforming Mars is a bad idea.
- spammishking, on 02/19/2008, -1/+10Nope in the year 2000 we'll have diesel powered spaceships
- subterfuge, on 02/19/2008, -1/+10instead of pulling it closer to the sun, we can just capture our CO2 and send it there. 2 birds, 1 stone.
- GaiaAP, on 02/19/2008, -0/+9As a fellow contemporary inhabitant of Earth 1, I wholeheartedly support your change of plans and wish you a pleasant time. Allow me extend my preemptive gratitude for reducing the sum total my my local competitors by one. Mwahaha!
- solidus636, on 02/19/2008, -1/+9?
- nj10ii, on 02/19/2008, -0/+8Russia would then plant a flag under the polar ice cap to declare it theirs.
- jspania, on 02/19/2008, -1/+9So long and thanks for all the fish.
- angusm, on 02/19/2008, -3/+10Life requires more than just a place to stand.
There are a lot of factors that worked together over time to give our Earth an environment where life can flourish (the influence of the Earth's magnetic field, early bombardments by planetismals and icy comets, plate tectonics and even life itself have all been mentioned). I suspect that if you were able to find a rocky, icy, Earth-sized mass in the Oort cloud and tow it into the Sun's habitable zone, you'd end up with a rocky, icy, Earth-sized mass that wasn't quite so far away.
Of course if you have the technology to move planets around, terraforming one once you get it where you want it should be a snap. - Enfenestrate, on 02/19/2008, -1/+8I'll go up there and push it. Have you seen the size of my arms?
- moskaudancer, on 02/19/2008, -2/+9No, it's goatees. Didn't you ever see the mirror universe episode of Star Trek where a transporter accident sends some of the crew to the parallel universe?
- echo2501, on 02/19/2008, -1/+7I think we're going to need a bigger microwave.
- thePoopSmith, on 02/19/2008, -1/+7When was the first time you took a look?
Did you see the Klingons? That was an embarrassing incident. - Incoming9000, on 02/19/2008, -0/+6Exclusive first image of Earth2 taken by the Hubble Space Telescope: http://theforce.net/swtc/Pix/books/weg/dstc3.gif
- MacParrot, on 02/19/2008, -1/+7Actually it was a movie called Journey to the far side of the sun (I think)
- Akaji, on 02/19/2008, -5/+11You need to get penises off your brain and focus more on thinking.
- davidlow, on 02/19/2008, -0/+5Yeah, that's the name I remember, too. But IMDB shows the name as "Doppelgänger", which in the film was the name of the space ship: http://tinyurl.com/399qvd
The plot:
They send a manned space ship to the planet opposite the sun and the ship crash lands. The surviving astronaut thinks he's going crazy because he's back on Earth but everything is reversed, like his living room is now to the left of his front door instead of on the right, he can read things in a mirror and it looks normal instead of backwards, etc. Meanwhile, Mission Control is telling him he returned to Earth in half the time it was supposed to take and he says no he didn't. Spoiler: They figure out the whole mirror-image planet thing and they try to send him back by having the two ships dock in space, but they didn't realize the electrical polarity was also reversed and the docked ships explode. The last scene is the mission control guy killing himself by ramming his wheelchair into a large wall mirror at top speed. Bummer. - xpose, on 02/19/2008, -3/+8We should take a second look at Uranius.
- westhepirate, on 02/19/2008, -1/+6That would require one bad-ass gravity pump.
- quiggibub, on 02/19/2008, -1/+6There would have to be life on the planet for millions of years before there could be oil. We'd be better off bottling the water and selling it here for assloads of money.
- matperk, on 02/19/2008, -0/+5We should just call the new one Pluto and rename the old one. Then we don't have to buy new textbooks.
- yodaj007, on 02/20/2008, -0/+5The joke went over your head at .5 past light-speed.
- coyote1284, on 02/19/2008, -1/+6As long as Tim Curry isn't part of the expedition, I'm down!
- JimSartor, on 02/19/2008, -0/+5Mars?! Mars is MUCH smaller than Earth and probably couldn't hold a real atmosphere anyway. Want Earth 2? How about Venus? It's close and already comes with an atmosphere . . . granted, we'd still have quite a bit of work to do, however, if we were going to drag it out to a managable orbit, I am quite sure the rest of the process would be a cakewalk.
- victorycig, on 02/19/2008, -4/+9I would so totally be one of the first colonists on Earth 2. A hard life, for sure, but it would be an experience literally out of this world.
- sanman, on 02/20/2008, -1/+6Hey, how do you know THEY'RE the second Earth, anyway?
Ever consider that maybe WE are?
Ever thought of that?
Hmm? - rickspencer, on 02/19/2008, -1/+6If I remember correctly Father Guido Sarducci announced this on SNL in the mid eighties.
"I read about this other planet, too, in the same book. [ holds out his fists ] It's-a like, the sun is-a here and the Earth is-a here.. and on-a the other side-a of the sun, there's this other planet we can't see, you know, because the sun is-a blocking it from us.. but it's-a just-a like-a the Earth in every single way, it's like a mirror planet of Earth. There's only one difference, and it's that they eat-a corn on-a the cob-a like-a this.. [ demonstrates eating corn on the cob North-South instead of West-East ] That's it! That's the only difference. I'm not going there, you know, it's-a too messy. I'm used to eating it-a like-a this.. [ demonstrates West-East eating structure ] I just don't want-a change, habit like." http://snltranscripts.jt.org/78/78rupdate.phtml - mugicha, on 02/20/2008, -0/+5You've had a lot of bad experiences with moving planets around?
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