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- BadAstronomer, on 07/20/2008, -10/+289Folks, this is from April *2007*.
- Persian5Life, on 07/20/2008, -9/+124yes but dose it have oil?
- HapeninHap, on 07/20/2008, -3/+113Why do we assume that ALL life needs water? For all we know there could be something out there that eats rocks, or diffuses certain gases into its system to sustain life.
- zplot, on 07/20/2008, -2/+79There have definitely been smaller planets discovered, and more "earth-like" in size. But to finally find a planet within range to hold liquid water is one step closer to finding some aliens.
- sladek, on 07/20/2008, -5/+53it's 5 times as massive, that means the average European would weigh as much as the average American
- mroboy, on 07/20/2008, -1/+48My wife says I can eat anything and produce gas.
- Samsong, on 07/20/2008, -3/+47we dosen't know yet.
- VaporBro, on 07/20/2008, -4/+48HOLY ***** ***** WE LANDED ON THE ***** MOON
- spiffyfitz, on 07/20/2008, -2/+43unless the aliens don't need liquid water to survive :)
- DeadBabyFloat, on 07/20/2008, -0/+39well, the star is 20 some light years away so its from 1987
- Flytrap, on 07/20/2008, -13/+48... Oh, so this is old news to you, huh?
You've known about the work of Stephane Udry of the Observatory of Geneva in Versoix, Switzerland for over a year now, have you?
Well its new news to me!
I didn't know that ol' Steph and her mates had discovered two new extrasolar planets around the red dwarf star, Gliese 581, 20.5 light-years away in the constellation Libra over a year ago. They did not tell me! - a1cd, on 07/20/2008, -0/+35Caprica?
- wolferz, on 07/20/2008, -0/+33we don't... but it is the only theory we can back up with evidence... and thus, statistically, focusing on that has the highest chance of success.
Plus life as you describe it could be so strange we wouldn't know it if we looked right at it in a microscope. - tomz17, on 07/20/2008, -0/+30HELLA HARD... look at the temperatures of everything else known in the universe!
- skinrock, on 07/20/2008, -0/+26Because there is nothing on Earth that is 5 times the mass of a beaver...
- ligyron, on 07/20/2008, -0/+25So? I didn't know about this discovery until now
- AJKenny84, on 07/20/2008, -6/+29Sorry, I did not realize we could only "Digg" articles released in the past 48 hours.
- inactive, on 07/20/2008, -0/+22F ~ Mm/r^2
That means no.
Mass, weight, size, distance from the center. - GeorgeStone2, on 07/20/2008, -1/+22You just blew my mind.
Imagine if that's how our planet was started.
Some aliens saw a planet that could sustain life much like theirs and sent a capsual with the building blocks. - hypnotoad32, on 07/20/2008, -0/+20http://members.shaw.ca/rlongpre01/moon.html
Roger, Tranquility, we copy you. We cannot believe you are on the ***** moon. Repeat: Cannot ***** believe it. Over. - urbandistrict, on 07/20/2008, -0/+19ET now has an unlimited text plan. "Hi, we r gng 2 earth, b home l8r. thx"
- wolferz, on 07/20/2008, -0/+18Venus has surface temperatures of over 450 °C. Mercury can range from -220 °C to 420 °C. Mars ranges from -107 °C to -17.2 °C.
Pretty fricken hard. - Mythrl, on 07/20/2008, -4/+22Actually Gliese 581 C has received quite a bit of coverage since it's discovery and has made the digg frontpage 3 times already.
http://digg.com/space/What_would_life_be_like_on_p ... (5 months ago)
http://digg.com/space/European_Team_of_Astronomers ... (7 months ago)
http://digg.com/space/Gliese_581_one_planet_might_ ... (7 months ago)
It's also been reported on major news sources
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6589157. ... (April 2007)
It's one thing to be sarcastic about people pointing out old news on digg for obscure articles that nobody has heard of, but frankly this discovery was heavily reported by mainstream news and if you have any interest in this subject and haven't heard of Gliese 581C you've been living under a very large rock. - netgeek06, on 07/20/2008, -2/+19Need to immigrate there ASAP. The Cost of living would be cheap like earth when it began.
- GeorgeStone2, on 07/20/2008, -2/+18Does 5 times as big mean 5 times the gravity?
Do not want. - DifferentAngle, on 07/20/2008, -0/+16So would the standard of living.
- copypastry, on 07/20/2008, -0/+15With that attitude, we'll never get anywhere.
- CouchTomato, on 07/20/2008, -0/+15A bunch of cryopreserved fish embryos are on their way towards that planet I hear.
- drmobutu, on 07/20/2008, -1/+15There is also solid water, and gaseous water...
- DougieD, on 07/20/2008, -0/+14STALE POP CULTURE REFERENCE ALERT
- MoClippa, on 07/21/2008, -0/+13In range of my super duper light speed device. Patent pending. I just have to figure out a way to pull it out of my ass and we're set!
- Sinestro, on 07/20/2008, -3/+15No, planets are not all the same density.
- lamiaconfitor, on 07/21/2008, -0/+12You dont think astronomers can do algebra? Or, do you think you are the first person to think of that?
- briguymaine, on 07/20/2008, -2/+13well done!
- vinceislegend, on 07/20/2008, -2/+13Does this make me all wet? Is that the question?
Then yes. Yes it does. - jotate, on 07/20/2008, -4/+15Wouldn't a planet five-times as massive mean five-times as much gravity? Potentially increasing the pressure of a comparable atmosphere? Potentially increasing the freezing point of any water on the surface?
- StephenCIreland, on 07/20/2008, -1/+12shush, if it does the US will say it has terrorists... we dont want to ruin it before we get there
- InfiniteNothing, on 07/20/2008, -0/+11It just means you end up with smaller creatures with tougher skeletons
- arjie, on 07/20/2008, -0/+11I remember this article from when it last came up, and I feel sad that I've been here on Digg for that long.
I volunteer for the first flight out to Gliese 581. - plr4ever, on 07/20/2008, -0/+11No
- geobay, on 07/20/2008, -0/+10Not necessarily. Muscle and bone density could evolve to withstand a much higher force of gravity.
- inactive, on 07/20/2008, -0/+9YOU, Are an *****.
SPAM sucks. - antonio97b, on 07/20/2008, -0/+9Oh come on. I could eyeball that *****
- renegadeafk, on 07/20/2008, -1/+10ice
- diggydougie, on 07/20/2008, -0/+8Cities in space. It would take generations. The people that got there would be very different from us.
- Paul1245, on 07/20/2008, -1/+9Yup, hes right. The average temperature of the universe is just a fraction of a degree above absolute zero. Its very unlikely, but its a numbers game.
- rearlgrant, on 07/20/2008, -1/+9For those with Digg ADD, I'll keep this structured:
One -- "But researchers do not yet know if the planet contains water, if it is truly rocky like Earth, which might make it hospitable to life as we know it, or whether it is blanketed by a thick atmosphere. "What we have," Udry says, "is the minimum mass of the planet and its separation" from its star. "
This article is a good example of how the MSM misses great opportunities to explain how figuring out this science stuff is done.
Two -- Lots of people are posting the cliche and high-school level comment "this is older than..." So how about seeing the world outside your seemingly ADD adeled focus and spending your (short) compositon time posting a link to the peer reviewed paper? Oh wait, you're probably off chasing some new shiny object over there, and now over there, and now over there... - renegadeafk, on 07/20/2008, -0/+7mass relays
- rearlgrant, on 07/20/2008, -0/+7Aquatic life.
- theodenking, on 07/20/2008, -0/+7Or even more exciting to me, a colonisable world.
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