Earth like planet found. Your reactions?

[goodwithwords08]

If you have actually read the article then you would understand how hard it would be for us to live there, the planet barely rotates, this could mean any number of horrible things. For an example one side is always in the sun while the other is always dark, the temperature on the sun side is 120 degree F, while the dark side is -20 degrees F, the only suitable place we could live is right in the middle a.k.a. the always sunrise/sunset area, basicly (can't spell) we would be always be moving. Another horrible thing, with the planet not rotating much at all the chances of it having a core that also spins is very unlikely therefore the chances of it having an EM field is very low which means more and more dangers from that planets sun. Also if you take a look at the pictures you should notice that while there is water most of the planet is land and with the fact that if we did live there we would always be moving we just couldn't survive because of the lack of water.

All in all I do believe there could already be life on this planet, they could have evolved to deal with all the problems I have pointed out but we as humans and as a species have not made that leap yet.

And we shall call it....

Reach

I think we should save that one for the first planet Bungie will own.

 

[Max01234]

If isn't like Pandora, I don't care!

 

[sheogoraththemad]

goldilock? is the name of the planet Goldilock?

 

[AdamRBi]

First, I would like to know a few things:

1. It may support life and water, but can it support us?
2. How long until we can expect to be able to travel there? Can we say; 20 years tops?
3. Who can we trust to taste test the plant and animal life there to determine what's poison or not? The thought of new flavors of meats and plants are making me salivate! The culinary possibilities are endless!

 

[Korten12]

goldilock? is the name of the planet Goldilock?

the scientiests couldn't get any girls.

 

[Jaded Scribe]

I'm excited! I've long believed that there must be intelligent life out there, somewhere. With so many planets in just our galaxy alone, odds come out pretty good in favor of alien life.

 

[SenseOfTumour]

As for the message we sent out, to arrive around 2029, I'd guess that if there's life intelligent enough to respond to our message, they'll have done the research and pretend they're not in, rather than invite us over to take over their planet, leech it dry of all resources then move on.

Cynical much?

I also can't help but think of the horrifying amount of war that will start over who owns what, just between us, never mind anything already there. You just know whatever life is there, we'll just assume the planet is ours because we found it, in a repeat of the 'I own this country, because I have a flag, and I'm backing it up with this gun,' theory.

(c) E. Izzard.

 

[Grand_Arcana]

 

[Jark212]

And we shall call it....

Reach

I second that motion...

Now we just need a FTL drive to get there and humanity have two-system empire. And We'll need to rename Earth (Terra) The Sun (Sol) and the Moon (Luna) to stay original...

 

[Tsaba]

First, I would like to know a few things:

1. It may support life and water, but can it support us?
2. How long until we can expect to be able to travel there? Can we say; 20 years tops?
3. Who can we trust to taste test the plant and animal life there to determine what's poison or not? The thought of new flavors of meats and plants are making me salivate! The culinary possibilities are endless!

My question is what are the biological implications (ie. the germs).

 

[Buzz Killington_v1legacy]

It's not like we're the only planet with a yellow sun.

Actually, Gliese 581 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gliese_581] is a red dwarf.

Lets say you did a roundabout trip going to Alpha Centauri 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.

Your figures are off here. The time dilation factor is only roughly 7 at 0.99c, so you'd be looking at about 61 years elapsed back on Earth. (That's assuming constant speed without having to accelerate and decelerate, of course.)

 

[Vincent V]

Congratulations science, we bow to your inadequecy!

 

[sheogoraththemad]

goldilock? is the name of the planet Goldilock?

the scientiests couldn't get any girls.

but even then they could at least give it a badass name

 

[Addendum_Forthcoming]

It's not like we're the only planet with a yellow sun.

Actually, Gliese 581 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gliese_581] is a red dwarf.

Lets say you did a roundabout trip going to Alpha Centauri 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.

Your figures are off here. The time dilation factor is only roughly 7 at 0.99c, so you'd be looking at about 61 years elapsed back on Earth. (That's assuming constant speed without having to accelerate and decelerate, of course.)

You sure? I thought .99 LS time dilation was a factor of 60.1 I must admit it has been 11 years since grade 9 science o.o

 

[GrinningManiac]

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

As a Catholic myself, I can tell you that anything, ANYTHING that contradicts the Vatican's viewpoint is not evidence to the contrary of God's existence, but rather a "test"

"Look, your holiness, medicine/science/philosophy/common sense!"
"It's not real, my son"
"There's stacks of evidence, though!"
"It's a test by Him to see how stubborn and backwards we are!"
"Ah, but of course! You are so wise, your holiness!"

 

[silv]

There are hundreds of earth-like planets(probably more) in only our galaxy, the closest one is 20 light years away.
My reaction? Unimpressed.

 

[Baron Von Evil Satan]

Who gets to go there? Who would own it and rule it? I think the first thing that would happen there is war. Sucks i know. I am sure USA would be first country there as they have a huge budget and a space program. Although they could work with rest of world but i think there will always be issues. But i am all for being proved wrong.

 

[Irridium]

How long until my own America makes it "Their" property?

Oh, come on! We haven't even claimed the moon, & we were there 1st.

What do you think the flag is there for?

A giant "fuck you" to the rest of the world?

How about symbolism & pride? If no one can say "look what we accomplished" without you reading it as "fuck you," I'd say you have issues.

BrownGaijin beat me to the punch in explaining members of the UN have a treaty declaring everything in space cannot be claimed by any nation. That includes the US, especially since we're part of the UN & signed the treaty.

It was just a joke...

 

[Buzz Killington_v1legacy]

You sure? I thought .99 LS time dilation was a factor of 60.1 I must admit it has been 11 years since grade 9 science o.o

Yep. The time dilation factor comes from this equation:



...where t is time, v is your velocity, and c is the speed of light. If you do it for t=1, t' comes out to around 7.089.

 

[Ultra_Caboose]

Any thoughts on sending someone like Snake (a la MGS3)? Just drop a battle-hardened mercenary in the place, see what innocent creatures can and can't be eaten, and destroy the alien's Shagohod.