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- Sithlrd, on 10/12/2007, -85/+1122Vista sucks. No matter what planet it's installed on.
- DiggsOnlyNeoCon, on 10/12/2007, -9/+270How the hell did you all turn this into anti-religion and anti-Republican... oh... and anti-Microsoft, too.
This is like the ultimate microcosm of Digg in one thread. - SLP1111, on 10/12/2007, -6/+215Yes it might have water..but does it have BEES?!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -13/+162Huuuuuuuuuuuge defeat for the Flat Earthers, Huge!
- Haohmaru, on 10/12/2007, -7/+150"...orbits a red dwarf..."
I'll bet that would provide some amazing vistas. - wiirdo, on 10/12/2007, -17/+155It's not habitable until they build a Walmart.
- weister42, on 10/12/2007, -7/+128Giant plants with THC crystals all over.
- diggumjonez, on 10/12/2007, -6/+125Awesome. I bet it has all kinds of natural resources we could strip of it, and leave it an uninhabitable shell.
- jesuschrysler, on 10/12/2007, -6/+107Hmm, jsballardx, very astute and clearly well-informed comment, please go on.
- monospaced, on 10/12/2007, -10/+108How long before there's a McDonald's franchise there?
- michaelb1, on 10/12/2007, -4/+98"Everybody always ask for proof of this or that so where's the proof that there is life on other planets? Show me something and don't turn it into a religious debate this is about science."
Read any of Carl Sagans books. He pretty much deduces mathematically that there is life outside of our planet.
In a nutshell (no offense to S Hawking) he says something like if:
- .0001% of stars in the universe have a planets around them
- .0001% of those planets are large enough to have gravity but not too large to collapse into a star
- .0001% of those planets are at correct distance from star to support elements necessary for life
- .0001% of those planets have also have have existed long enough for life to evolve
after all these reductions the number of planets that could support life is in the billions.
this is all paraphrased.
what are the chances of Earth being the only planet out of billions of planets to be the only one with life.
answer = 1 in billions. I would not make a bet with those odds. - rolosworld, on 10/12/2007, -4/+93Larger than Earth.. so it has more mass then Earth? if so that means more gravity force and more dense atmosphere... now I know where to train for my super sayan skillz
- wonderchemist, on 10/12/2007, -7/+92Who is this *we*? Did you work for an o-ring manufacturer back in the 80's?
- BigManOnCampus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+79It depends on the absorption lines in the atmosphere. If the atmosphere absorbs a lot of the red wavelengths, well, it might look very similar to our own vistas.
- gllopc, on 10/12/2007, -1/+74Here are 7 other articles:
http://www.dailyindia.com/show/135806.php/First-habitable-Earth-like-planet-outside-Solar-System-discovered
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,268166,00.html
http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/008200704250305.htm
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2007/04/habitable_plane.html
http://www.france24.com/france24Public/en/news/world/20070422-Astronomy-red-dwarf-mother-earth.html
http://www.earthsky.org/article/51255/astronomers-find-first-habitable-earth-like-planet
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/TECH/space/04/24/exoplanet.reut/ - monospaced, on 10/12/2007, -15/+79Oh no, more illegal aliens and potential terrorists.
- ideapower, on 10/12/2007, -7/+70smeggin' hell!
- gquaglia, on 10/12/2007, -24/+86"Sorry everybody we are all alone out here. There's no other life anywhere despite how hard you want to believe."
Spoken like a true bible thumper. I bet you believe in Adam and Eve and the 7 day genesis as well.
"Sorry, it's all about Mars. Only a pussy would go for an inhabitable planet."
Unless you have plans for some new space drive on your desk, 20 light years is well beyond our capability for some time. Mars is attainable. - fkr3, on 10/12/2007, -2/+62Puberty is a longer trip for some people.
- skinfrakki, on 10/12/2007, -7/+63And a Starbucks on every corner. The end of the universe
- crashflow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+41Revolution : 13 days
man, that must suck... having to remember anniversaries, birthdays, file taxes every 13 days. - wired4u, on 10/12/2007, -3/+44So when do we leave?
- saintpath, on 10/12/2007, -4/+43More importantly, does it have beer?
- TheAkolyte, on 10/12/2007, -4/+42Alien Steak, anyone?
- WarpFox, on 10/12/2007, -36/+70If the democrats all went to live on another planet, leaving only the republicans on earth, the republicans would only continute to destroy the planet until it is inhospitable, blame it on the no longer present democrats, then they'd bring "democrocy" to us and we'd just have to do it all over again
- theblooms, on 10/12/2007, -3/+36Actually, Morton-Thiokol *told* NASA that the O-rings would fail. It's ain't their fault, it was completely on NASA.
- vuke69, on 10/12/2007, -4/+36Does it have oil?
- davidave, on 10/12/2007, -1/+31there's probably a civilization there now waiting for us to bring our puritan ethics and beads in exchange for their planet
- banthis, on 10/12/2007, -8/+38Sorry, I couldn't resist:
http://img160.imageshack.us/img160/4606/untitledkx4.png - michaelb1, on 10/12/2007, -11/+40"Vista sucks. No matter what planet it's installed on."
Not true. I could be quite succesful on a planet with no itelligent life. Like Neoconus. - teksimian, on 10/12/2007, -4/+32mirror : http://story.malaysiasun.com.nyud.net:8080/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/243780/cs/1/
- mitrovarr, on 10/12/2007, -2/+30People are jumping the gun. This is almost certainly not a habitable planet. The main reason is that the planet orbits a red dwarf star. This means two things - first, the planet is going to be tidally locked to the primary. This means the same face of the planet will always face the star. It is currently unknown whether oceans and atmospheres can survive this arrangement. Secondly, nearly all red dwarf stars are flare stars. This means the planet will be routinely subjected to flares in which the star will rapidly increase its brightness by a large factor, up to around 75x. It is unknown if life could survive in this arrangement, or even if such a planet could maintain an atmosphere.
It's also worth noting that we haven't analyzed the atmosphere yet, and thus it could be an airless rock or a greenhouse wreck like Venus.
What has actually been discovered here is a planet Earth-like in size, that orbits at a distance that could potentially allow liquid water to exist. However, other factors probably make it hostile to life. However, it is still an exciting discovery. - Matteos, on 10/12/2007, -3/+30The Drake Equation...
N=R* x Fp x Ne x Fl x Fi x Fc x L
where:
N is the number of civilizations in our galaxy with which we might expect to be able to communicate at any given time
and
R* is the rate of star formation in our galaxy
Fp is the fraction of those stars that have planets
Ne is average number of planets that can potentially support life per star that has planets
Fl is the fraction of the above that actually go on to develop life
Fi is the fraction of the above that actually go on to develop intelligent life
Fc is the fraction of the above that are willing and able to communicate
L is the expected lifetime of such a civilization for the period that it can communicate across interstellar space. - Mizery, on 10/12/2007, -0/+24I believe by definition, it takes light 20.5 years to travel from our sun to the red dwarf. Better pack dinner, too.
- BigManOnCampus, on 10/12/2007, -10/+34What really sucks is the constellations completely change every 13 days. Good luck circumnavigating the globe for the first time with that kind of quick change. Hopefully it's less of an ocean planet than ours.
Hell, I'll bet the stars move so fast in the sky that your perspective would change in near-real-time while you had your telescope out. - urinnerchild87, on 10/12/2007, -12/+36Why can't people who believe in God and the Bible believe in extraterrestrials, I mean, There's nothing in the Bible saying there isn't other life, but there isn't anything confirming it either. So regardless of what jsballardx believes, you can't immediately peg him as a bible thumping nut case. some people just don't believe that aliens exist, apparently as you believe that God doesn't exist. All your doing is making hasty generalizations based on one sentence, and thats pretty stupid if you ask me.
- ringo380, on 10/12/2007, -1/+25It was me. I broke the o-rings.
So I guess that's all settled. Sorry guys, totally my bad. - Darkspyder86, on 10/12/2007, -0/+24If they have oil too they better be prepare for war.
- Ratking, on 10/12/2007, -0/+22It's probably a time share condo. High pressure sell.
What they don't tell you is that it's BYO flora and fauna. - leftnut, on 10/12/2007, -8/+30This is great, once we ruin our own planet it will only take us a few thousand years to fly to this one and begin fowling it up too.
- darkbird, on 10/12/2007, -1/+22But is it an M-class planet?
- jerseyboy91, on 10/12/2007, -4/+25Well, it's about time! I'd like to see what's living on that planet.
- gllopc, on 10/12/2007, -2/+23From wired.com: "On the treasure map of the Universe, one would be tempted to mark this planet with an X," added Xavier Delfosse"
Yeah - and I'd be tempted to mark it with a "G". He's looking to claim the planet for himself! GET'M! - TRScheel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19You'd share a birthday with 1/13 residents... you'd never get good presents again!
- BrokenVisage, on 10/12/2007, -10/+29Time for Haliburton to send some scouts up there in their oil-powered spaceship!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18Calculating the date of Easter would be a bitch.
- nottidredd, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18No Starbucks in Costa Rica? Guess not, doubt they could sell coffee @ $5 a cup over there and expect people to buy it.
- Yaki, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17The possibilities for tiberium are... limitless!
- dilberter, on 10/12/2007, -4/+20@jsballardx
I really don't know why I get sucked into it...
NOBODY is saying that THERE IS life in other planets.
Science looks at probability when it comes to extraterrestrial life and the odds are, given the BILLIONS of planets in a galaxy and the BILLIONS of galaxies in the universe, there's a HIGH CHANCE that other planets contain SOME SORT of life form. They may be more or less evolved than we are.
There. Now, now, just breath and let it soak it in for a sec before you try go stand up.
You don't want all that blood rushing out of your head all at once. - Plinkotic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15God sent this Firey Kill-Rock to show his love for us!
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