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- satanatnmtedu, on 10/31/2007, -6/+127Water is required for LIFE AS WE KNOW IT. To state that water is required for life to exist (implying all life) is patently false.
Same planet as here in April?
http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/20070324222140data_trunc_sys.shtml - HunterTV, on 10/11/2007, -9/+84"It is made of gas rather than rock and its atmosphere reaches temperatures hot enough to melt steel..."
That's impossible. Only a controlled demolition can do that. - DeskFlyer, on 10/11/2007, -1/+70FTA: "It is made of gas rather than rock and its atmosphere reaches temperatures hot enough to melt steel, which means the water exists only as superheated steam."
Meh, just send my ex-wife there and there'd be giant oceans in no time. - pwallroth, on 10/11/2007, -0/+55If it's not Fiji bottled water then it really doesn't interest me.
- MikeonTV, on 10/11/2007, -6/+57More bad news for Pluto.
- vroom101, on 10/11/2007, -0/+48This cool discovery is yet another reason we must find a way-way-way faster propulsion engine. It's nice to read about these places, but I'd like to send RoboExplorer to take a peek -- getting there and returning to Earth in a reasonable amount of time.
- cypher543, on 10/11/2007, -3/+44Yes, thank you. We all know Earth has water.
- postitnote, on 10/11/2007, -1/+41Even travelling at the speed of light, it will take us 63 years to get there. No, what we need is an improbability engine.
- RockStrongo1, on 10/31/2007, -4/+37I have a ship that can make the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs... interested?
- rberk72, on 10/11/2007, -2/+20Just use the stargate ....
- Gzero, on 10/11/2007, -0/+16"The sun is around 5 minutes from the sun"
What? - soundflow, on 10/11/2007, -1/+15yes
- TheG2, on 10/11/2007, -3/+17Uh oh, your gonna piss off the tinfoil hat brigade.
- AlexWills, on 10/11/2007, -2/+13Need a question cleared up:
The sun is around 5 minutes from the sun at light speed meaning the sun we see is actually the sun's image from about 5 minutes ago, correct? So wouldn't we be seeing through a telescope the actual planet 60 years ago if the planet were 60 light years away? - MacEnvy, on 10/11/2007, -2/+13Sure, it would be 63 years for those staying on Earth ... but likely only a few years (accel/decel at 1g) or a few months (accel/decel at 1.5g) for the traveler. That's the beauty of high velocity relativistic travel.
- hunkster2010, on 10/11/2007, -0/+10And the little HD189733bians are out there saying they found a with planet with water, but it's in it's super-cooled liquid state, and it's cold enough to freeze steel.
- supermanred, on 10/11/2007, -7/+16Okay, so you puny humans have found my little planet. Good job. Now what I cant understand is that it took you so long to find me, seeing as Im using a really really really long ethernet cable to steal your cable and internets.
I am in yer planets stealinz your cable! - bluejet, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9Yeah, any longer than it takes to make a beer run is a bummer.
- Dogstar77, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9For what it's worth the sun is 8.8 light minutes from earth....
- h4mx0r, on 10/11/2007, -1/+10How expensive of a planet do you want!?
- Dogstar77, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8You could also turn around and watch yourself getting there
- ErikLove, on 10/11/2007, -2/+10This is the second time -- not the first time -- that water has been detected on an exoplanet.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6292076.stm - Gzero, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8Steam doesn't burn off...it wont just disappear. Maybe if it got really, really hot (not sure exactly how much) it'll split into hydrogen and oxygen, but then it still hasn't disappeared.
- vroom101, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8The planets are different...
From your link (Exoplanet With Liquid Water?, 25 April 2007, http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/20070324222140data_trunc_sys.shtml ): "Twenty light-years away orbiting the red dwarf star Gliese 581, the new exoplanet is the most Earth-like discovered to date, with a radius only 50 percent larger than the Earth and with temperatures that would allow water to exist in a liquid state."
From the submitted link (First planet with water is spotted outside Solar System, 11 July 2007): "The find, named HD189733b, is about 15 percent bigger than our Jupiter and orbits a star in the constellation of Vulpecula the Fox" - johndi, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7I guess they don't read much. GJ 436b is a hot ice giant where the water is frozen by extreme pressure. UC discovered some bacteria in LA that don't need water. These guys need to read a little more.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003710356_planet17.html http://www.astrobio.net/news/article2336.html - DarkPrincess74, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8Do you want it for the purity of water or would you prefer a square planet?
- drakethegreat, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8You realize that E=mc^2 isn't just a cool equation that gets mentioned every time Einstein comes up in a conversation. Indeed it actually means something.
- postitnote, on 10/11/2007, -3/+9The passengers going at the speed of light will feel that the trip was instantaneous. On earth, we would see them take 63 years to get there.
- Twisty, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6Okay?
- jedikv, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6That body of mass never gets a break
- MasterThief117, on 10/11/2007, -3/+8Also, Mars seems to have water, just check out this picture:
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0504/WaterOnMars2_gcc_big.jpg - nickdngr, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5the disclaimer really should be "life as we know it" or "carbon-based life as we know it." while water is necessary for life as we know it, what is to say the dominant lifeforms of the universe are not silicon-based, waterless -- which could actually be a toxin/poison to them -- and expel lead as a waste product. the fact is, scientists are looking for the known good necessities of life and not the endless possibilities, most of which no one can imagine. while you make a good point, sornos, it's still hindered (or pragmatic) to life as we know it.
- Halfjack, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5Dude, I dont think you get it....
In science, there is a field called 'spectroscopy'. Its based on the fact that each atom and molecule in the universe reflects or emits only certain wavelengths of light. Each compound give off a unique pattern of wavelengths, like a fingerprint. So, If we know the 'fingerprint' of water, we can identify that fingerprint as coming from water, even in astronomical objects.
capiche? - themanmachine, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5we have to develop warp technology. i'm pretty sure we could be able to bend space and time in a millennium or so.
- bubba9999, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4I'm guessing it would feel wet.
- Toshibi, on 10/11/2007, -2/+6"Oil, who said anything about oil? You cooking bitch?"
-Black Bush, "The Chappelle Show" - rambovsthailand, on 10/11/2007, -3/+7As much as I back alternate 911 conclusions i still think that this is probably the funniest thing anyone on this site has ever said. Sir I would dig you up a hundred times if I could.
Bravo. - tsunamisteve, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4nothing is uninhabitable. Watch miracle planet on discovery hd. Earth has been through some extreme times and look at us now.
- AlexWills, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3If that is true then if we were able to travel faster than the speed of light and view the earth from another planet then we could see in the past. Pretty neat.
- S201, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4Except it's impossible (as we currently know) to travel faster than light. Also at the speed of light, your mass increases to infinity which wouldn't be good.
But in theory, it's a cool idea. - zolaar, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Dude, even at the speed of light, some things just take a while.
- yournamehere, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4Can we call it "Ice Planet Hoth"?
- boris92, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4OMFG your a genius you must be the first man to discover water, how does it feel?
- Hazardc, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3in star trek, our own galaxy isn't even completely explored.
- LRKirsch, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3It might have been HD209458b.
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/070410_water_exoplanet.html - kanundrum, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3Well it hasn't been touched by man....
- ender42081, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3oh wow, I didn't think anyone else ever sat through an episode of that... cue the space disco fro!! (space 1999 for those who don't get it)
- vroom101, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Yes, I think you're right. Thanks for the link.
- Sornos, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that water might be a necessity for life to form. Water, from a chemical point of few is very interesting. Water can hydrogen bond very well, and it is very light. These facts are very important when doing chemical reactions. For example, hydrogen bonding is why we have liquid water for such a large range. The only other possible chemical that could replace water is possibly ammonia. But that might have problems with it's propensity to form ammonium.
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