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- Pastyman, on 01/28/2008, -13/+147Life on planet Gliese 581 C would probably be centered around an armed conflict involving multiple groups who proclaim that their supernatural non existent leader is better their rival's.
- Jon211, on 01/28/2008, -0/+24Lord Kelvin, 1900:
"There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement."
5 years later Einstein came up with special relativity and proved the existence of atoms via Brownian motion. - moofree, on 01/28/2008, -1/+20On Gliese, we call it a "Kerplorchroschnatz"
- slapded, on 01/28/2008, -0/+19steve jobs said i hate to read. where are the pics
- CheeseburgerBro, on 01/28/2008, -3/+22It's prounounced "Alderaan."
- illt, on 01/28/2008, -2/+19no you moron...religion
- moofree, on 01/28/2008, -0/+1641 year ping times would be killer to life on this planet.
- Purin, on 01/28/2008, -0/+15So, how do you pronounce "Gliese" anyway?
- sonnybobiche, on 01/28/2008, -0/+14Just FYI, the star is Gliese 581. The planet is the third planet in that system, so it's referred to as Gliese 581 C, per convention.
- ZincSaucier, on 01/28/2008, -1/+15us guys from under the red sun are like "ohh, ohh, ohhh"
- Fallout911, on 01/28/2008, -0/+12Now all we need is ancient prothean technology and and a good ship and we'll be there in a jiffy.
- illt, on 01/28/2008, -7/+18it's sad to think we will never know what life would look like on that planet, or any other planet outside our solar system.
and that intelligent life will never communicate with other intelligent life in the universe.
unless of course one can somehow travel faster than light. - mahler, on 01/28/2008, -2/+12It's Digg-proof
- jrak, on 01/28/2008, -1/+11On Earth, we call this a "joke".
Cue the comeback in... 5... - degron, on 01/28/2008, -0/+10So, basically life would suck on Gliese 581 C?
- Error601, on 01/28/2008, -6/+16Only three posts and the morons come out. Why science on the Internet sucks.
- SpencerMc, on 01/28/2008, -0/+9For the other Americans who, like me, have extremely little concept of relative Celsius and Fahrenheit temperatures, 95 C is roughly 205 F. Sooo...don't forget to bring one of those little handheld fans.
- Kythas, on 01/28/2008, -0/+9"Everything that can be invented has been invented" - Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, US Patent Office, 1899.
BTW - before everyone hounds me, I know this was never said and is only a myth. I'm only making a joke here to illustrate a point. It's very common for people to believe there can be no further improvements to science and/or inventions. Those people are proven wrong almost daily. - dsendecki, on 01/28/2008, -0/+9So what is the deal with people from under the orange sun? They're all... Right? Am I right?
- thcobbs, on 01/28/2008, -0/+9Well damn it! By the time we get there, there will be nothing left!
- jonspraggins, on 01/28/2008, -0/+8"I don't want to go to Neptune. I'll be cold ... and heavy!"
- Farnsworth - h3lx, on 01/28/2008, -2/+10Glee' zuh
- Castellan, on 01/28/2008, -1/+7This assumes we can find any intelligent life on Earth.
- frenchi, on 01/28/2008, -0/+6I think I'm going crazy, I seem to read every thing twice here.
- omega6, on 01/28/2008, -0/+6I think I'm going crazy, I seem to read every thing twice here. ;)
- CountBlah, on 01/28/2008, -0/+5But he won't have anything else to do, the man doesn't have hobbies.
- Spoomeister, on 01/28/2008, -0/+5It would be cold outside, with no kind of atmosphere. Actually, we'd be all alone, more or less. Pretty sure we'd want to fly far away from there...
Seriously, from the article it sounds like one would need to bring a metric phuck-ton of sunblock and vitamin D pills. - ipodwheels, on 01/28/2008, -1/+6Can't wait for the USS Enterprise to be done so I can visit this planet. At least its under construction....
- Lumbeekid06, on 01/28/2008, -0/+5sounds German in my head...
- diblasio, on 01/28/2008, -0/+4Thanks aajjcckk, I really needed to hear that. :)
- crzdmn, on 01/28/2008, -0/+4Reading involves understanding wastelander, stop talking until you can do both.
It's good to see someone on DIGG calling out the *****. We do not know everything, we do not know much of anything, we haven't scratched the surface of science and probably won't for thousands of years. There could EASILY be other life out there, that may even be studying us. Get off your high horse people, we aren't the *****. - antych, on 01/28/2008, -1/+5What... No pictures?
- skyshock1, on 01/28/2008, -0/+4WTF is going on w/ the comments?
- inactive, on 01/28/2008, -3/+6re: non existant
atheists are just as ignorant as they believe theists to be because neither opinion can be proven. You can only speculate that you are right. Believing absolutely, and even prostheletizing (because like it or not, that is what you are doing in your statement) in something that is not provable is narrow minded no matter what your belief is. - cawpin, on 01/28/2008, -0/+3No, when you prove that something exists it isn't just more precise measurement. That is coming up with the measurement unit itself.
- craighoxton, on 01/28/2008, -1/+4Here you go: http://www.astronomy.themoon.co.uk/images/spaceart ... (best viewed whilst listening to Binary Sunset by John Williams)
- craighoxton, on 01/28/2008, -1/+4...but would spend hours looking around for ore to prospect 'cos we need credits to buy tricked-out Spectre gear...
- talonjasra, on 01/28/2008, -2/+5Very bad if you were Superman, the sun's red :(
- FearFactory, on 01/28/2008, -0/+3I'm enjoying my stay here on Teeagak thank you very much!
- courtjester555, on 01/28/2008, -0/+3The idea here is that nobody fights wars for atheism. As a strong/militant atheist, I'm OK with people believing in a god/gods; Deism never hurt anybody either. Organized religion is the issue. And atheism isn't exempt: many Communist countries from the 20th century killed in the name of godlessness.
- MacEnvy, on 01/28/2008, -1/+4Digg started out with a lot of Trekkers. It's non-tech folks like you who have invaded, not us geeks. And we welcomed you here - treat us well or we'll DDOS you.
- lmf49, on 01/28/2008, -0/+3Its pronounced like Grease/Greece, but with an L. (Gliese:Grease) Say Guh-Lease. Now say it fast.
- inactive, on 01/28/2008, -0/+3because they have to think inside the box to a degree before they can gradually move outside to see other reasonable possibilities. The idea is that you start with what you know and learn more from there just like any other subject.
You can't start with a wild presumption and build on it because you will quickly roadblock yourself with the limits of your own imagination. It is always, always safest to play within your knowledge boundries before you move out if you want to be reasonable. - WorkingDead, on 01/28/2008, -0/+3Everyone that has ever lived and everything that has ever been done will have been for nothing if we cant get our ***** together and start exploring the rest of the galaxy.
- CountBlah, on 01/28/2008, -0/+2Be careful with using Trekker instead of Trekkies, you are tempting fate. Also Roddenberry said that Trekkies is the true term since he invented it.
- barbobot, on 01/28/2008, -0/+2Jesus has space magic, and can raise the undead. This might be closer than you think!
- johnn11238, on 01/28/2008, -0/+2Read more carefully: Surface temps are 95 C.
That's not cold, by the way.
And "all alone"? You would be out in space looking for...a danceclub? Social center? Hip locals? - barbobot, on 01/28/2008, -0/+2Really how much more vague could Kelvin be? "More precise measurement" Every new discovery requires more precise measurement.
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