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- SmackAttack42, on 10/10/2008, -2/+38does anyone remember the movie Titan A.E.?
- starmanjones, on 10/10/2008, -5/+36it really isn't that easy. you're right.
if we sent people there and it was already inhabited then what?
even before that by the time colonists got there they wouldn't be planet dwellers. they would be spacefarers. they physically would not be adapted to live on planets. in all likelihood they would think living on a planet is a stupid idea. before that they'd wonder what their ancestors were thinking sending them to this planet not even knowing what was there.
coming before that a very solid case can be made that says a technological civilization shouldn't live on a planet when everything it needs is available abundantly and easily in open space.
coming before that its questionable whether a technological society can live on a planet without destroying it.
i'm nearly past the idea we can save earth from us. we would have to reduce the population of humans down to a more natural number- a million or two humans. we'd need to completely abandoned our over extended range and stop production of technology we take for granted. won't happen. most people can't even conceive this as a truism. but we will do this or the earths environment will reduce our numbers.
if we don't have other places to live then we failed ourselves. now is the moment humans live or go extinct. will we survive until the end of time or die off in the next few hundred years and be forgotten like we never existed. its our choice and our challenge not our decedents.
we have the resources and can afford the burden of the human future. but we get poorer from now on. humans in the future won't be affluent enough to pull it off. earth will survive and have life in all likelihood but not what know.
i'm thinking the only option is to take life from earth and spread it everywhere we go. thats how we save earth. it may be that our earth was the price paid for humans to survive to the end of time. if we do good in the universe then the price paid is not so high. - alilhappything, on 10/11/2008, -2/+31That would be ***** tight. Can we name it Google?
- inactive, on 10/11/2008, -0/+25I'd rather live on planet Youporn.
- stuffradio, on 10/11/2008, -0/+24For everything else there's mastercard..
- inactive, on 10/11/2008, -1/+25Plant some trees on Mars!
- RivenEmrys, on 10/11/2008, -1/+23Earth-Mass Planet: 2010.
Potentially Habitable: 2012.
Technology necessary to colonize: 4038? - RogerStrong, on 10/11/2008, -1/+15>> how long it's gonna take to
>> move all the people to the
>> new Earth?
It's impossible to move *anyone* to a new earth for the forseeable future. It would be thousands of years travel time with any known technology. (It's not just a matter of technology - there are some basic limits in phisics working against us.) We're stuck in this solar system for now.
All we'd be doing is studying the planet from here. - Paulorific, on 10/11/2008, -0/+13As an aspiring mechatronic engineer, if astronomers find an earth-like planet by 2010, I'm going to dedicate most of my work towards sending robotic drones to that biznatch. Hopefully it's not more than 10 light years away. Even with the best theoretical propulsion systems we have, if it's any further than that I won't be alive to see my robots eat some alien burger king.
- daschupa, on 10/11/2008, -0/+11 Better question; how long until it finds us?
- DieselGrunge, on 10/11/2008, -0/+10Well you need a small plant and a medium sized one in addition to a large plant to make any progress.
- Mononuclear, on 10/11/2008, -1/+11You think humans will be around in 5 billion years? I am betting we go extinct long before then.
- kidwithsword, on 10/10/2008, -4/+14It is like 99% impossible to travel to any planet in space that would be habitable by human beings. It takes light 8 years to reach the nearest star, and all other planets in the solar system are essentially uninhabitable as there are now. I can't imagine humans colonizing any other planet it my lifetime, or in the next 100 years, for that matter.
- gallito89, on 10/11/2008, -0/+9We should teach them that they have fossil fuels to burn up.
- strictnein, on 10/11/2008, -0/+8"if we sent people there and it was already inhabited then what?"
Nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure. - inactive, on 10/11/2008, -0/+8If we spent the 2 trillion dollars from the Iraq War and Wall Street bailout, we could have colonies on Mars by now. :(
- bullox, on 10/11/2008, -0/+8Give me a holler when you figure out how people will live on a planet shrouded by clouds of sulfuric acid so thick that light can't penetrate them.
- justintsmith, on 10/11/2008, -1/+8MATT DAMON
- michaelrsa, on 10/11/2008, -1/+8Well, just as long as we get into some kick ass ***** interstellar war with aliens in about 500 years I am set. That or ***** zombies.
- wackattack, on 10/11/2008, -1/+8People will not be moved. Everybody that is born on this planet will die on this planet. If we can't find a way to travel at light speed we will sent robots that will breed humans once arrived. Instead of breeding children on earth we will send our sperm and eggs to those planets and let robots populate other planet with humans.
- inactive, on 10/11/2008, -4/+11Sweet! New intelligent life that we can force our religion[s] on.
- lead2thehead, on 10/11/2008, -0/+7Yeah... or we could just use the Stargate that's in that secret bunker inside of Cheyenne Mountain.
- inactive, on 10/11/2008, -1/+8You have some sort of liberal arts degree, don't you?
- dan2, on 10/11/2008, -0/+7Believe. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler_mission
- WELLDOITLIVE, on 10/11/2008, -0/+7You should
jk - violentvinyl, on 10/11/2008, -0/+7I think if I had the choice, Id like to try life on a flotilla in space.
- RobotBuddha, on 10/11/2008, -0/+7I'd say it's almost impossible that ***** sapiens would be around that long. In the same way that australopithecus afarensis is extinct. Our species will almost certainly be dead, but it's very possible that something descended from us will exist.
- kingfoot, on 10/11/2008, -1/+8planet bob.
- inactive, on 10/11/2008, -0/+7No, WE need to burn up those fossil fuels.
- Hellman109, on 10/11/2008, -0/+7Well in the billions of years of our exitence only 1-2 rocks big enough to have huge impact has hit earth.
So another PLANET size object to hit us is highly unlikely, even in 5 billion years.
But the Red Giant thing is something we currently have no way of doing anything to avoid.
But look at what we've done in 2000 years, since the time of Jesus. We have 500,000x as much time as that to develop a way to get off earth, live in space, move to another planet, etc.
I believe we can do that. It may mean we become a space faring race, which will have huge impact on us as humans, it would probably also mean becoming vegetarian, but I still think we can do it. - inactive, on 10/11/2008, -0/+6hopefully by then we'll be getting energy from other sources in our own solar system: solar power from the sun, raw minerals from the asteroids, radioactive isotopes of uranium (to support the inevitable nuclear fusion based economy) from the gas-giants.
- dan2, on 10/11/2008, -0/+6...who's moving people where? We're talking exo-planets light years away, maybe in a few hundred years.
- mystogirl11, on 10/11/2008, -1/+7yay! another planet to conquer and destroy
- sustydev, on 10/10/2008, -9/+15Things seem are not that easy, if we can find one before this one get destroyed, how long it's gonna take to move all the people to the new Earth? Why don't we put more time on saving the one we have now?
- thegrantman, on 10/11/2008, -0/+6I'll call my new city New New York.
- inactive, on 10/11/2008, -0/+6Get your ass to mars.
- jlimon, on 10/11/2008, -1/+7Dugg for using "tight". I miss when people still used that to mean "cool".
- m1zl3d, on 10/11/2008, -1/+7How do you plan to save Earth from a potential Asteroid the size of Earth? Or better yet in 5 billion years our Sun will turn into a Red giant and the Earth will become uninhabitable.
We may not be able to "save" Earth. Eventually we WILL have to find a new home. The question is when. - CapeKid, on 10/11/2008, -0/+6I'd rather call it Caprica.
- gllopc, on 10/11/2008, -0/+5I love predictions like this - but the interwebs have spurned me: I no longer believe anything until it happens.
- slrgtr52, on 10/11/2008, -1/+6Buried because you can't spell "definitely". Especially when a "Check Spelling" feature is available.
- uncleosbert, on 10/11/2008, -0/+5and the french scientist says, he's pulling that number directly out of his ass:
"Baglin has little patience for impatience or for the pressure on her to announce discoveries quickly. “Finding these things isn’t like finding the nose on your face!” she exclaimed, shortly before leaving the café last November to head for the dentist. The Swiss astronomer Mayor gathered data for 20 years, she pointed out, before announcing his first exoplanet. “So when people tell me, ‘You haven’t got any results,’ when we’ve only been in orbit for a year, I say, ‘Stop! Have mercy!’ In three years we’ll have results indicating how common small planets are. Big planets we know we’re going to find. We’re looking for the little ones. Are they there, or aren’t they?” - sanman, on 10/11/2008, -2/+7I'd say that the first step is to find some places really worth going to -- like other Earth-like worlds
Then humanity will feel motivated enough to look for a way around the lightspeed barrier - ReeferChiefer42, on 10/11/2008, -0/+5"Planet Starbucks...the Microsoft Galaxy..."
--Tyler Durden - Mactrekr, on 10/11/2008, -0/+5Agent Smith: I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area, and you multiply, and multiply, until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet, you are a plague, and we are the cure.
- Frostek, on 10/10/2008, -0/+5What "stuff we already have"? And I think you mean moot, not mute.
- wenis, on 10/11/2008, -0/+4lets not worry about finding another place to destroy. we've already done a bang up job on this ol rock.
- rodted2, on 10/11/2008, -0/+4You will be assimilated!
- milkmage, on 10/11/2008, -0/+4another earth? unlikely. there are undoubtedly millions of class M planets out there, however.
- SpeedSteamBoat, on 10/11/2008, -0/+4The mass of an object increases exponentially as you approach the speed of light. Thus you would need a near infinite amount of thrust to accelerate any mass to anywhere near the speed of light.
Light speed isn't like the speed of sound. Things get impossibly difficult long before you get anywhere near the speed of light. Realistically, we need to either somehow sidestep the speed of light altogether (worm holes, "hyper-space", etc) or else figure out a reliable form of cryogenisis and be content with speeds in the realm of 1/100th the speed of light. -
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