54 potential life-sustaining planets

[TheEndlessSleep]

Oh goody:

Another bunch of planets that we can move to, spend 2000 years filling them with our trash and stripping their rescources, and then move on.

Yay for humanity...

 

[Sightless Wisdom]

Well even if none of them can support life(which is likely) it will be interesting to know what else is floating around out here(not there... I mean we're floating too right?).

 

[Terminate421]

So long as we can colonize something outside our solar system, I'm cool with that. That way, the human species can still exist. (At some point we'll get killed by our own sun)

 

[lacktheknack]

Distance from sun: Check.
Atmosphere: ?
Magnetic Fields: ?
Shielded from astral projectiles: ?
Presence of elements required for life: ?
Proper gravity for sustaining life: ?

I'd be surprised if even one had all the requirements for sustaining life.

The bolded ones seem like they could vary, like some species could develop to withstand a higher gravity or survive off different elements, like say a species that thrives off sulfuric acid, and why a magnetic field?

It's not useful for colonization for us, if the planet goes belly-up.

Also, if the Earth suddenly underwent a magnetic polar shift (which it very well might), then A. All migratory birds would fly north for the winter and die, and B. everything else would fall down and have enormous difficulties getting back up.

If it died completely, then we would all fall over and be obliterated by solar winds. That is why a magnetic field is... nice.

 

[lacktheknack]

Oh goody:

Another bunch of planets that we can move to, spend 2000 years filling them with our trash and stripping their rescources, and then move on.

Yay for humanity...

Well, that's cynical, but A. Sure, why not? but B. I highly doubt we're going to be as wasteful in the future. It's as good of a stance as yours.

 

[Mr. Meslier]

Oh goody:

Another bunch of planets that we can move to, spend 2000 years filling them with our trash and stripping their rescources, and then move on.

Yay for humanity...

Using up resources is a reality for any living thing.

We have two options: Grow or die. I think we should grow.

 

[lacktheknack]

Distance from sun: Check.
Atmosphere: ?
Magnetic Fields: ?
Shielded from astral projectiles: ?
Presence of elements required for life: ?
Proper gravity for sustaining life: ?

I'd be surprised if even one had all the requirements for sustaining life.

Even we don't we aren't shielded from astral projectiles. I also don't think there is a sign that says "your gravity must be at least this high and this low for life". I also am not sure if a magnetic field is 100% required for life, just really helpful.

I just finished an Astronomy class...

We are protected from astral projectiles. As the come hurling at Earth, Jupiter casually floats by, grabbing the asteroid in its gravity well and pulling it off course. Every. Freaking. Time. This is because Jupiter is really close, has a massive gravity well that even affects our orbit, and because it will always pull approaching asteroids in a different direction unless it's exactly opposite of Earth (which is why we still get some major impacts).

Also, without a magnetic field, if we didn't crisp immediately, we'd certainly die off from cancer within two generations, or just pratfall ourselves to death due to our newfound lack of any balance whatsoever.

 

[Ice Car]

I doubt this whole thing. Assuming any number of the planets have every single necessity for life on said planet or planets, sounds pretty outrageous...

 

[Aptspire]

if the technology in 'The light of other days' ever becomes available, we'll send our View-holes there first (no, I won't call them 'wormholes' since I expect some science douche to tell me "zomg! wormholes are huge black holes!!!11!") :/

 

[Zantos]

Cool, now we only need a decent way to travel across the galaxy and we're well set for the galactic empire. Britain baggsies somewhere warm and sunny!

 

[crudus]

I just finished an Astronomy class...

We are protected from astral projectiles. As the come hurling at Earth, Jupiter casually floats by, grabbing the asteroid in its gravity well and pulling it off course. Every. Freaking. Time. This is because Jupiter is really close, has a massive gravity well that even affects our orbit, and because it will always pull approaching asteroids in a different direction unless it's exactly opposite of Earth (which is why we still get some major impacts).

Also, without a magnetic field, if we didn't crisp immediately, we'd certainly die off from cancer within two generations, or just pratfall ourselves to death due to our newfound lack of any balance whatsoever.

I am going to doubt that. Highly. I won't deny that it may happen sometimes but not every time. Jupiter is 3 orders of magnitude more massive than us but it is 500 million miles away which provides about 100 times more gravity than your computer monitor to you. Granted I would believe it more (but not much) if those meteors would be coming out of the Asteroid belt and thus much closer to Jupiter.

I will agree that might happen if the magnetic field just disappeared from Earth(except the balance thing which is dependent on gravity). However, life has this weird tendency of adapting to the planet it is on. On planets without a magnetic field it is possible that things will stay out of the way of the of the cosmic rays and electric storms by staying underground. Besides, the Earth's magnetic field has flipped (and theoretically zeroed) many times throughout the course of history and life is still here.

 

[KiKiweaky]

Oooohhhh D:

Fair enough all the people saying its just one on a massive list of things that are needed to sustain life as we know it do have a point. But dont forget we have some pretty strange forms of life on this planet too, things that live in sulphur rich environments in caves called snotites (probably not how they are spelled but still) that feed off the sulphur and their waste product is acic, acid that is as powerful as battery acid. Or marine life around thermal vents, with a water temperature of 300+ degrees celsius and under a mass of water presure. Scientists were rather shocked when they found things like this.

The chances of us finding little grey men with ray guns may be remote but the international scientific community would need a change of underwear if some viable form of life was found anywhere off planet. Hell I'd be excited, progress in baby steps. Remember 'mobile' phones, the ones that could be used to club people to death with? Look at the things we have now, it may take decades centuries even but I'm confident we'll find one eventually.

Now alls we need is for some genius to come up with a way to generate enough power to get us there before the crew of the ship shrivel up and die.

 

[Macgyvercas]

Distance from sun: Check.
Atmosphere: ?
Magnetic Fields: ?
Shielded from astral projectiles: ?
Presence of elements required for life: ?
Proper gravity for sustaining life: ?

I'd be surprised if even one had all the requirements for sustaining life.

Sustaining life as we know it. There's no telling what's out there that we don't know about and what it could be capable of living in.