Earth like planet found. Your reactions?
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Says that that planet is really the Garden of Eden or something along those lines.Chris Overhage said:
And the colony can rebel and we will feel much empathy for British after it. At least thats how I hope it happens, it be deliciously ironic.Terminate421 said:
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A unclaimed planet? Sounds like a utterly beautiful opportunity. I say we make a escapist colony and claim it.
Saltyk said:
I could have sworn reading another article that claimed to find a similar "earth like planet" a few months back.
Anyways, this doesn't actually prove anything. There was never any doubt that a planet could exist in the same zone as Earth. Nor does a planet existing in such an area guarantee that their is life on it. It's also important to remember that this is not a planet similar in size and mass to Earth. It simply exists in the same zone as Earth. But even then, it is still located closer to its star than Earth. So saying it is highly similar to Earth seems like a stretch. It might be in comparison to other planets we've found, but that doesn't prove much.
So yeah, this doesn't really prove anything nor raise any questions that weren't already being asked. I'm not trying to say it isn't an important scientific discovery. The discovery of any planet is. But I don't think it is this ground breaking discovery you guys are making it out to be.
Anyways, this doesn't actually prove anything. There was never any doubt that a planet could exist in the same zone as Earth. Nor does a planet existing in such an area guarantee that their is life on it. It's also important to remember that this is not a planet similar in size and mass to Earth. It simply exists in the same zone as Earth. But even then, it is still located closer to its star than Earth. So saying it is highly similar to Earth seems like a stretch. It might be in comparison to other planets we've found, but that doesn't prove much.
So yeah, this doesn't really prove anything nor raise any questions that weren't already being asked. I'm not trying to say it isn't an important scientific discovery. The discovery of any planet is. But I don't think it is this ground breaking discovery you guys are making it out to be.
Technically worm holes are faster than light because you get there before light would, thus faster than light.Saltyk said:
Hold out hope a little longer, I'm working on figuring that out.baseracer said:
well what happens when you get to the speed of light is it takes more and more energy as an object grows in mass at high speeds. This effectivly means that it would take an infinite amount of energy to move a single atom to light speed. It is one of the only impossible things.Saltyk said:
Im American, I was born here and never left here, but its just that ever since Obama (Or congress) for that matter has screwed up, Ive just felt like we're nothing but douchebagsLittlee300 said:
Yeah, but the FTL was alien tech discovered on Mars, and belonged to the Reapers, and which completely blows our earth tech out of the water. But regardless, I think we're more likely to discover wormhole transportation technology before we find alien artifacts on Mars...Saltyk said:
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Being American... I would die loling if that happened. And after that happens, Great Britain would be like, "YEAH, SUCKS HUH!"Littlee300 said:
23.73453 days. OP: Alright were going to go out there NOW to "Discover new life and civilisations, to boldy go where no man has gone before" I call being Data! (He was always my favourite.)Terminate421 said:
I remember reading somewhere that some Theoretical Physicists said that we could travel faster than light. It just takes a type of energy we have yet to discover.Saltyk said:
That sounds like a good job though. Make up some shit and get paid big time
What kind of religious implications?Chris Overhage said:
Maybe something like "the life forms on that planet are blind! They have no god! We must venture into this planet and teach them the ways of the lord! If they refuse they are the new spawns of Satan!"
Wow I sure hope some nutjobs DO act this way so we can smack them across the face.
Earth-like planets are so over rated, I'm fairly certain we've found quite a few of those. Even if it has life its not like we can colonize it and enslave its locals anytime soon.
