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- DeskFlyer, on 12/19/2007, -3/+104Yeah, it may be habitable......for GIANT ALIEN SPACE WORMS!
- nova912, on 12/19/2007, -2/+86Class M
- relaxeder, on 04/17/2009, -3/+84I wonder if there are people there who are looking at our planet and wondering the same thing.
- cambob76, on 12/19/2007, -3/+72So its 20.4 light years away... that means it might have been destroyed 20.3999999 years ago and we wouldn't know.
- harvinator24, on 12/19/2007, -12/+70How long till i can live their, i can't stand bill o'reily anymore.
- Falc2, on 12/19/2007, -3/+61What always depresses me about these discoveries is that by the time our technology has evolved to the point where we can travel to these planets I will be long gone.
- Xerces, on 12/19/2007, -13/+64They must have crazy weed
- griz, on 12/19/2007, -3/+53Gliese 581c or d may be habitable. Gliese 581 certainly is not.
- hexydes, on 12/19/2007, -0/+41Well the good news then is that we should be expecting the arrival of Superman any day now!
- sb66, on 12/19/2007, -1/+35I hope they love freedom. But if not, we have nukes.
- crzdmn, on 12/19/2007, -0/+322050: Warp Drive
2055: WD 1.1
2057: WD 2.0
2058: WD 3.0
2060: WD 4.0
2062: WD 5.0
2063: WD 5.1
2064: WORMHOLES - Drkboarder, on 12/19/2007, -2/+33Deploy the Imperial Probe Droids.
- cocreator10, on 12/19/2007, -1/+30gee Europeans discovering a new world..........
- Klarth, on 12/19/2007, -2/+30You forgot the apostrophe in "it's" and the comma in your opening sentence.
Also; "both of you pack your *****" is an ambiguous sentence. - hexydes, on 12/19/2007, -0/+27So then first develop the technology that will afford you life everlasting, then you can start tackling deep-space exploration.
Psh, duh. - Dotcommer, on 12/19/2007, -4/+28Shut up both of you. Its spelled THERE. Both of you pack your *****. You're going back to grammar school NOW.
- otatop, on 12/19/2007, -1/+25Yeah, but once we get warp engines in 2063, it'll be a 72 day trip. Assuming we have warp 5.1 by then.
- garryw, on 12/19/2007, -3/+2624 light years is too far away. That would take over 10,000 years to reach by rocket.
- inactive, on 12/19/2007, -3/+26Nasa has plans for a telescope that will be able to resolve these extra solar planets called the terrestrial planet finder. Oh wait, it was canned to pay for the war in Iraq, nevermind...
- MasterThief117, on 12/19/2007, -4/+27I bet that is where Candy Land really is.
- eroel462, on 12/19/2007, -0/+20that means they see the 80's when they look at us.
- imightbewrong, on 12/19/2007, -0/+18how strong would the gravity be on a planet 10 times earth's size?
- Phipman, on 12/19/2007, -0/+17Think about it: Back in the 1500's they couldn't even comprehend the concept of something as simple as a modern day car.
It may take a few hundred or even thousand years, but we'll get there. - nixfu, on 12/19/2007, -0/+17Yeah..but you don't have to go faster than the speed of light or break any laws of physics to get there..
Even if you only go 1/2 the speed of light it would only take 45 years or so...might be doable in a lifetime.
If go 3/4 the speed of light its about 30 years travel, which is more than enough to do in a single lifetime if you sent people in their 20's.
Of course it would be almost 60 years before US BACK here would know if they made it or not since once they got there it would take another 24 years for a radio signal to reach back here. - inactive, on 12/19/2007, -0/+16Well here is the thing... I am also a singularity buff... At the current rate of cpu speed increases in 500 years computers will be able to simulate the entire universe at the sub atomic scale in real time. A year after that they will be able to run the universal simulator 2x real time...
But the problem I see is people (or their machine intelligence descendants) will live their entire lives in virtual realities long before then, and if you can live in a virtual reality where the engineering problems of the real world are irrelevant, what incentive do you have to explore the universe?
Add in Fermi's paradox, and I am starting to wonder... Are the advanced civilizations all living in alternate dimensions of their own designs? - Identity4, on 12/19/2007, -0/+16And thats why he is living on his parent's cargo shuttle and surfing digg on the subspace channels...
- Rawler, on 12/19/2007, -0/+15we must avoid sending people like you into the reaches of space
- vdgmr1213, on 12/19/2007, -1/+16Come on, read the article. It CLEARLY is a Class L planet. Even if the tidally locked planet isn't too harsh for life, give it a Class K at best. But to say Class M? Obviously you didn't make it far in the Starfleet Academy.
- pyronik, on 12/19/2007, -5/+192Glieses1Cup
- inactive, on 12/19/2007, -0/+13Europe pwns again...
- griz, on 12/19/2007, -3/+16A planet WITH spin is a good thing.
- inactive, on 12/19/2007, -2/+15Ok, Habitable. big Deal
For all we know their favorite pastime is making, watching and commenting on holograms aptly titled "3 female and 1 male citizens and 1 container"
Do you really care to meet such "people"? - friedcalamari, on 12/19/2007, -3/+15*packing bags*
- clearzen, on 12/19/2007, -0/+11Not that I am a creationist, but just because someones believes a god is responsible for life on this planet does not mean god could not have created life on other planets as well.
- Bleahdom, on 12/19/2007, -0/+11Damn near zero means a lot in science. Then again, I don't expect creationist extremists to understand big numbers.
- barktwiggs, on 12/19/2007, -0/+10Spice Must Flow...
- moncsco, on 12/19/2007, -0/+10They'll see Mullet?
- kymike, on 12/19/2007, -0/+9Kneel before Zod!
- Nico_, on 12/19/2007, -0/+9As much as I like that quote animals do not instinctively develop a equilibrium. They die by disease or get eaten by other animals. It is a self balancing system but has nothing to do with the animals choosing to limit themselves. The only animal capable of making such moral choices are humans, the only animal who knows such a thing as moral even exists are humans.
Keeping that in mind there is no reason for humans not to develop a balance with our surroundings, in fact it might even be beneficial for the human race to do so. - txtphile, on 12/19/2007, -0/+9They'd be watching the voyages of the USS Enterprise, praying we don't find them.
- Sornos, on 12/19/2007, -1/+10Why you got buried, I have no idea. It's true. We aren't going there anytime soon.
- PresidentSoup, on 12/19/2007, -0/+9It would be interesting to see a colony established out there. If we also had powerful enough telescopes to see the surface of the planet (doubtful), we'd be able to 'look into the past' 20 years.
- weaponR, on 12/19/2007, -0/+8So, another planet for Xenu to drop souls into and then catch with giant nets, brainwash, and release onto unsuspecting cavemen? aw crap!
- 0crabby0, on 12/19/2007, -2/+10Hello Red Dwarf Star?
I can only use my superpowers of Digging, under a yellow sun... - 1town, on 12/19/2007, -0/+8This planet has existed for billions of years, and if it's as habitable as earth, chances are that life has evolved there as well. Who knows, maybe they are way ahead of us in evolutionary terms. Maybe they are about equal? Maybe there is a Digg article on their planet discussing this very thing right now?
Goddamnit, scientists, invent a telescope that can see all the way to the surface, already! - 1town, on 12/19/2007, -1/+9*****-A. We'll bring democracy to that savage planet.
- inactive, on 12/19/2007, -0/+8According to an astrobiologist friend of mine, for colonization purposes, colonists would prefer to find sterile planets that are suitable for terraforming. The reason is, alien biology would be so incredibly different from our own, that there would be an inherently toxic quality to any alien life form, as life on earth has only exploited a fraction of the possible organic molecules. When you get outside of the range of compunds that we are made of, they are usually deadly poisons... So even if humans do somehow make contact with aliens, it will be in encounter suits, and things like alien tentacle sex are simply out of the question.
- nunyomfb, on 12/19/2007, -0/+710,000 years for the opportunity of seeing a 3 tittied space chick like in Total Recall...Freeze Me! I'll take that ride!
- NihilFist, on 12/19/2007, -0/+7It should be "both of you, pack your *****". Notice the comma?
- ftcram, on 12/19/2007, -0/+7Moving there sounds great except for the 40.8 yr (5.249608704e10 second) lag time on the internet.
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