Earth like planet found. Your reactions?

[noble cookie]

And we shall call it....

Reach

I don't think I'll be moving there then. Perhaps we should wait for a while and see if anything bad just happens to come true.

 

[Baron Von Evil Satan]

Well ,since I was a little kid I firmly believed there is life out there.
Life will find a way to exist in even the most barren conditions.
It's great that technology is now advanced enough to provide some proof that the parameters for live are also found outside our solar system.

Life will also be found on europe (one of jupiter's moons) mark my words.

 

[Addendum_Forthcoming]

If it has 3 times the mass of earth, even if it had a similar atmo, that would be 48 lbs of pressure per square inch. If my maths isn't wrong <.<

So whilst it may sound like a feasible place for a colony once Humanity develops non-effectual time dilation LS travel it's not exactly a nice place to set up a colony.

For example .. .any child born on the world would be stunted and have massive cardio pulmonary problems, as well as problematic organ function and a fall that would otherwise just snap a bone could instead shatter it o.o

 

[8-Bit Grin]

The religious implications are going to be fun to watch. Lets see what the Vatican does here.

No, let's see what the Vatican does THERE.

If we find out life exists on the poor planet, Bible thumping loonies will build a rocket and spread the word of God across the galaxy.

(i.e. South Park, anyone?)

 

[ajofflight]

Great this will be one of the first planets to checkout when I discover FTL travel, but I think I've heard of this gliese before so I guess this information isn't really new.

You don't even need FTL travel, just RFCTL travel.
That's, Really-Friggin'-Close-To-Light travel.
So maybe it takes twenty ONE years

 

[DaMullet]

Anyone know where I can find out more info on that system and what other planets there are there?

 

[Korten12]

And we shall call it....

Reach

I agree, we should call it Reach. XD

 

[imnot]

I like cats.

Then cool.

 

[monkey_man]

like we puny humans are the only lifeforms in the ENTIRE fcking galaxy. NO WAY.
we will see alien life. maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow. but we will. eventually

 

[Baron Von Evil Satan]

The religious implications are going to be fun to watch. Lets see what the Vatican does here.

No, let's see what the Vatican does THERE.

If we find out life exists on the poor planet, Bible thumping loonies will build a rocket and spread the word of God across the galaxy.

(i.e. South Park, anyone?)

yes to this.
Any lesser race would risk getting baptised.
Though I am curious what religions (if any) there are in the universe.
I think gaming has provided me with the assumption that technologically advanced races worship giant obelisks with luminescent alien writing on them.

 

[Dexiro]

The religious implications are going to be fun to watch. Lets see what the Vatican does here.

That planet is run by the devil!

 

[Baron Von Evil Satan]

We can get off this shithole?

...

To the ships!

 

[Fire Daemon]

This is pretty awesome, I must say. A couple of thoughts popped into my mind as I read the. And yes, I won't deny that Reach was one of them.

Does anyone else remember the tv show Silver Sun? I think it may have been Australian tv exclusive... it wasn't that great. It was pretty much a teen drama show, but in space. Anyway, the plot was they were the crew on a space ship carrying cryo-frozen settlers to a distant planet for colonisation, but the journey would take 90 years, and thats why they started the journey as teenagers. Hahaha, anyway, I was reminded of that when I read

It's about 120 trillion miles away, so it would take several generations for a spaceship to get there.

I remember that show. Like all Australian teen shows it was a weird mix of science fiction and relationships and for an under 12's thing, wasn't terrible. I still can't get over that a cyborg-like person having trouble asking a guy out is a standard affiar on Australian TV but the closest Americans get is Hannah Montana... who's actors has cyborg-like qualities I suppose...

Anyway, when I found out about this I was pretty interested in the fact that it is tidally locked to it's sun, it doesn't rotate. One side is scorched and the other is (probably) frozen with a thin belt of habitable lands and this will have a crazy influence on any advanced race that arises. Having planet wide tundra's and burning hellfire to the east and west while you're trapped in perpetual twilight sounds like it comes straight from some sort of fantasy novel, and not to mention how it will influence the evolution of life there.

We can't be certain if there is life there but seeing as how a probe could reach it in 200 years, I think we should try to find some. Sure it'll probably just be bacteria if there is any at all, the entire thing could fail and 200 years would be wasted and none of us will ever live to see it, but we have to try damn it! Confirmation of life outside of Earth and so close. Consider that for a moment.

 

[Sexy Street]

Really awesome story my fellow brothers....

 

[Latinidiot]

dibs on the Enterprise

Nu-uh! I called it first!


Like, waaaayy back!

 

[Not G. Ivingname]

My first reaction.

20 LIGHT YEARS @#$@#$%#@$%@#$#@%@#$%#@$^#$%^%^&%$!

LETS GO THERE RIGHT FUCKING NOW.

Ok, glad to see your going to wait several thousand years before anything we can launch now will get there

 

[BlackStar42]

My first thought, honestly, is that we need to fucking hurry up and find a Mass Relay. 20 light years is a very, very long way away.

 

[RatRace123]

So, we're sue it doesn't have life on it already?
Alright then, I shall claim it in the name of my lord and master.

I shall dub this planet New Chuckonia.

 

[Addendum_Forthcoming]

Great this will be one of the first planets to checkout when I discover FTL travel, but I think I've heard of this gliese before so I guess this information isn't really new.

You don't even need FTL travel, just RFCTL travel.
That's, Really-Friggin'-Close-To-Light travel.
So maybe it takes twenty ONE years

Actually what yuo need is a time-dilation negating LS drive.

The only way you can stop, or atleast diminish, the effects of time dilation due to speed is ultimately the after effects of being able to accelerate a particulate to LS. Gravitons o.o

If you do nt modify the effects of gravity on a craft time dilation will exponentially grow the faster you get.

Believe it or not it would take less time for a craft travelling between pluto and earth travelling only at .5 LS then it would for a craft travelling the same distance at .9 LS. The reason being is time dilation.

Lets say you did a roundabout trip going to Alpha Centaurii and back (8.8 LYs total) Travelling at .5 LS it will take 17-18 years ... travelling at .99 LS it would take 500 Years. Everybody on board the .99 LS travelling craft would feel like only 9 years have passed ... everybody outside the craft (like back on earth) would be 500 years older.

 

[orangecharger]

The religious implications are going to be fun to watch. Lets see what the Vatican does here.

Insert small change to the response on dinosaur bones -- God put that planet there to test our faith -- knowing that one day we would have the technology to find it.

Am I surprised we've found one, not really, within our scope of technology to find is impressive. Sheer number of stars we know of, pretty much meant there had to be a planet similar to Earth somewhere.

If they do manage to prove life on this new rock, invest in your various alien novelties manufacturers.

We shall call it Caprica!