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- unicornchaser, on 11/22/2008, -4/+49Put me on the next shuttle, I'm tired of this cruel world.
- grbradsk, on 11/22/2008, -3/+29unicornchaser:
It's a bloated planet full of a pollution bi-product. It's definitely republican. You're better off here. - TrevorBradley, on 11/23/2008, -0/+23"Carbon dioxide, one of the telltale signs that a planet may be able to support life"
As it does on Venus.
(end sarcasm). The original article says it's one of four biomarkers for life. It is awesome that spectroscopy results for an exoplanet 63 light years away work so well. - Fabbyfubz, on 11/23/2008, -0/+21But that was 63 years ago
- sockpuppets, on 11/23/2008, -1/+15grbradsk:
Who else would you be replying to? - benologist, on 11/23/2008, -0/+8Yeah, in addition to earth, fire, wind and water..... it turned out there was also HEART!!!!!!
- chillypacman, on 11/23/2008, -0/+8go planet...! (?)
- ashgtx, on 11/23/2008, -3/+10Al Gore isn't gonna like this news...
- Mewchu11, on 11/23/2008, -0/+7GAS GIANTS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY!
- DrewPeacock, on 11/23/2008, -0/+7I don't see what you did there.
- anagoge, on 11/23/2008, -6/+12I looked at your comment history. Your comments are so boring.
- mitchlourens, on 11/23/2008, -0/+6With your powers combined, i am CAPTAIN PLANET!
- kurtwinter, on 11/23/2008, -0/+6But its only 18.9 seconds away at Warp 9!
- sockpuppets, on 11/23/2008, -1/+7Universal warming is more likely.
- martinezmic, on 11/23/2008, -2/+7Assuming you travel at an average of Warp 6, one can expect to arrive 58.63 days. Better get packing.
- inactive, on 11/23/2008, -2/+7yeah that'll only take 63 years to get there.
When we figure out how to travel at close to the speed of light in hundreds or thousands of years time. - jgzman, on 11/23/2008, -0/+4Why pack? Just get whatever you need from the replicator.
- kingfoot, on 11/23/2008, -0/+4you know, way back when, humans believed there were only 4 elements too... look how far we've come since then, and how long it took to get there-
- TSK05, on 11/23/2008, -3/+7What a no-story. We've been able to use spectroscopy on extra solar planets for quite a while and this planet is a hot Jupiter thus we know it doesn't support life...so what's the story again?
Did the story about the first visible light picture of an extra solar planet ever make it on digg? Now that's news... this is crap. - replaysMike, on 11/23/2008, -5/+9Let's send some ***** there to confirm it - it's only 63 light years away.
- sv650touring, on 11/23/2008, -1/+5yeah, janet25's comments contribute nothing. "yeah, that's great" " very informative." blah blah
I'm not sure if that qualifies as spamming, but it is at least laziness - sockpuppets, on 11/23/2008, -1/+5Club you to death with a bag of caps lock keys.
- inactive, on 11/23/2008, -3/+6Oh noes! A common molecule was found!!
STOP THE PRESSES - linuxlucas, on 11/23/2008, -0/+3Who said Atheists think nothing 'greater' can exist? And why is conviction greater then man?
More importantly, the notion of greatness is irrelevant. You can't define greatness, similar to the way you can't prove (or disprove) the existence of god. If there was an alien that could fly and was more intelligent then humans, would you call that 'greater' then man? - amheidt, on 11/23/2008, -2/+5I don't think this description is very accurate. It lead me to believe that there was a possibility of life existing outside of our planet.
Then I read the next paragraph:
"Although there's no way that this particular planet could support life, being able to spot carbon dioxide in its atmosphere offers hope for probing the atmospheres of planets more like Earth — and so bolstering the search for life outside the Solar System."
It's still a cool find though. Also, the technique they used to find the CO2 was really cool. We've come a long way... - pedepy, on 11/23/2008, -0/+3its not like its a terribly complex molecule, but ok.
Arent there some on mars,??. - gowingsgo, on 11/23/2008, -0/+3A++++ Will read again
- TurnipFarm, on 11/23/2008, -0/+3Because your point is moot as all ***** and you're a douche bag for asking about it.
- Nephersir7, on 11/23/2008, -0/+3Only a stupid person would say something like that
- inactive, on 11/23/2008, -1/+3for real, we have the scientific knowledge and technology to build a nuclear pulse drive, which could theoretically travel at 10% the speed of light - so only 630 years! What I think would be worth sending a probe to would be the Gliese 581 system, which has two super-Earths orbiting in/near the habitable zone of the star. its only 20 light years away, so we could get reports back 220 years (200 travel + 20 sending the signal back at lightspeed) from launch.
- paker, on 11/23/2008, -8/+10Sounds like global warming to me.
- scottmoss, on 11/23/2008, -0/+2Just keep in mind that 1 light year is the equivalent of 5,865,696,000,000 miles now multiply that by 63.... we won't be going there anytime to soon....
- Mstrommen, on 11/23/2008, -0/+2If CO2 is a sign of life why doesn't mars or venus have life?
- inactive, on 11/23/2008, -0/+1But this is the first one we have seen CO2 on using spectroscopy, which is a big deal, because we now have more information and experience on how to identify it at such great distances. I definitely agree that the viz. light pics should have hit the front page.
- blipblopblip, on 11/23/2008, -1/+2...yeah, the thought that we might not be the only civilization in the universe dooming the whole thing by breathing out our evil poison
- Kryssa, on 11/23/2008, -0/+1I wonder how much they charge for first class for 60 light years of traveling.
- SisyphusFragmnt, on 11/23/2008, -0/+1The stupid! It burns!
- LeadStripes, on 11/23/2008, -1/+2Exoplanetary Warming!
Let's send Al Gore. - Rabiki, on 11/24/2008, -0/+1Wow thats kinda random
- GamerX, on 12/10/2008, -0/+1It's life, Jim, but not as we know it.
- GreenAlien, on 11/23/2008, -0/+1Sending a probe at 10% light speed would be a waste of money. We will be able to build one that travels 20% speed of light at the very least within the next 315 years at a fraction the cost.
- jazzy1003, on 11/23/2008, -0/+1I don't either.
- TSK05, on 11/23/2008, -3/+4lol, why am I being dugg down? Anyone mind telling me?
- dawnraid101, on 11/23/2008, -0/+1Give all your money to me, hell cause its not like your gonna be able to spend it when your dead 0_o....
- Maksx, on 11/23/2008, -0/+1it seems awesome, except for the fact that anything with mass can never move even near the speed of light, discovering areas such as these are an impossible dream
- TSK05, on 11/23/2008, -0/+1"But this is the first one we have seen CO2 on using spectroscopy, which is a big deal, because we now have more information and experience on how to identify it at such great distances."
There can be no CO2 absorption lines in any star's spectrum (way too hot for such molecules to form) thus any CO2 absorption lines would have to come from a planet. Identifying CO2 is not any more difficult than identifying any other absorption lines (well, it may be because CO2 may have less bright absorption lines than other molecules and/or elements, I am not sure whether this is the case or not but the point is that we've not suddenly improved our technique on that - it's just that we've found a planet with more evident CO2 absorption lines - whether that be due to temperature or due to more CO2 present). - lastmaster, on 11/23/2008, -0/+1You would think the life on another planet could come up with a better name than "HD 189733b"
- Terra21, on 11/23/2008, -0/+1Wtf are you on about? Also don't click this guys link it looks like that one click buy amazon has and he's trying to con people into buying rc airplanes for some bizarre reason.
- TVarmy, on 11/23/2008, -0/+1It matters more for us. If it takes less time for the probe, I guess that lowers the chances of something breaking or wearing out, assuming the massive acceleration and deceleration doesn't hurt it more. So long as there aren't people inside, time's not a big deal so long as the internal components can stand being around that long unused and away from anyone or thing that can repair them.
- DrewPeacock, on 11/23/2008, -0/+1All I did was make a pseudo-clever modification to an over-used internet meme.
You, on the other hand, are so intelligent that everything you say goes WOOSH over my head. Clearly. -
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