Three Super-Earth-Size Planets Found in 'Habitable Zone'.
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NASA's Kepler mission has discovered two new planetary systems that include three super-Earth-size planets in the "habitable zone," the range of distance from a star where the surface temperature of an orbiting planet might be suitable for liquid water.
Journal:
William J. Borucki, et al.
Kepler-62: A Five-Planet System with Planets of 1.4 and 1.6 Earth Radii in the Habitable Zone. Science, 2013;
DOI: [URL]http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1234702[/URL]
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[URL]http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130418142948.htm[/URL][/QUOTE]
We need to find oil on these planets so that we will become driven to reach them and colonize them.
That's really damn cool
It sucks that we'll probably never get there though
[QUOTE=Rangergxi;40332368]We need to find oil on these planets so that we will become driven to reach them and colonize them.[/QUOTE]
Even at the speed of light, you aren't getting there in our life time.
[QUOTE=Rangergxi;40332368]We need to find oil on these planets so that we will become driven to reach them and colonize them.[/QUOTE]
I don't think that you know where oil comes from.... :v:
..or maybe you're really optimistic for life to have existed.
[QUOTE=Bradyns;40332382]I don't think that you know where oil comes from.... :v:
..or maybe you're really optimistic for life to have existed.[/QUOTE]
Well it's not completely out of the question
The planets are in a habitable zone and could probably have water with life
Send a monkey
That always works
Seems like every habitable planet we see is a Super-Earth, looks like humanity got stuck with the runt of the litter.
[QUOTE=Zeb Brown;40332411]Send a monkey
That always works[/QUOTE]
Watch them come back with crazy technology and take revenge in a few thousand years.
[QUOTE=Rangergxi;40332368]We need to find oil on these planets so that we will become driven to reach them and colonize them.[/QUOTE]
If that were the case, we would have been on [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakes_of_Titan"]Titan[/URL] a long time ago.
I wish we could have more than artists' interpretation of these planets. Maybe all this private space funding can come up with a possibly improved observatory
Maybe with NASA's new engine that they are making, would it be possible to travel there?
Or would we need a way to put ourselves in suspended animation for it to be feesable?
what we need is to build ships with cryochambers.
1. go into space.
2. set autopilot.
3. freeze.
4. wake up.
5. arrive at planet still alive.
how is beyond me, but damn it, it can be done!
I don't think we have the tech yet to just "freeze" people.
[QUOTE=nomad1;40332510]Maybe with NASA's new engine that they are making, would it be possible to travel there?
Or would we need a way to put ourselves in suspended animation for it to be feesable?[/QUOTE]
it would take 1,200 years to reach the star if we traveled at the speed of light in a vacuum.
unless we developop an alcubierre drive, we won't ever get there.
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[QUOTE=Zeb Brown;40332681]I don't think we have the tech yet to just "freeze" people.[/QUOTE]
we totally have the tech to just freeze people. waking them up is the hard part.
We've already established that "freezing people" causes more problems than benefits and is nothing more than a science fiction pipe dream.
So unless we have muscle/brain regenerators for cryochambers, we're most likely left with sending a whole fucking colony in a self-sustainable ship. God knows how long that'd take.
[QUOTE=yawmwen;40332690]we totally have the tech to just freeze people. waking them up is the hard part.[/QUOTE]
That's what I kinda meant.
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we totally have the tech to just freeze people. waking them up is the hard part.[/QUOTE]
Let's freeze people and send them off into space in random directions, hoping aliens somewhere know how to thaw them out.
That'd be my plan if I was tasked with an emergency evacuation of Earth with our current tech. Sure, some humans will end up as sex slaves to the tentacled aliens on planet x but that's a small price to pay for progress
I'm sick of humanity fighting, and not working together to unite our planet and move further into the space age.
send the writers for hentai movies, i'm sure they wouldn't mind too much.
[QUOTE=Zeke129;40332812]Let's freeze people and send them off into space in random directions, hoping aliens somewhere know how to thaw them out.
That'd be my plan if I was tasked with an emergency evacuation of Earth with our current tech. Sure, some humans will end up as sex slaves to the tentacled aliens on planet x but that's a small price to pay for progress[/QUOTE]
Or some highly advanced Alien race finds us all frozen to death and just goes "Oh what a shame, they didn't even have proper cryogenics" and we just end up an in Alien government lab / morgue :v:
I sure hope the aliens are nice people.
Cause if they're rude, that would suck
We've barely scratched the surface on what the Universe has to offer in knowledge and exploration, I'm looking forward to it all.
Also Kepler 62F looks like Planet Reach :dance:
1,200 light years from earth, there are more exciting things way closer.
I only see 2 planets larger than earth in the "habitable zone" where is the third?
Because it is so far away it could already have been destroyed in a nuclear war and we wouldn't know it for over 1000 years.
[QUOTE=Zeb Brown;40332900]I sure hope the aliens are nice people.
Cause if they're rude, that would suck[/QUOTE]
I think one possible future we rarely consider is that we have an Extraterrestrial encounter and the aliums are TOO nice; having long evolved past the need for warfare. So naturally we kill them and take their technology before conquering their worlds.
Shit works both ways.
[QUOTE=Pops;40332567]what we need is to build ships with cryochambers.
1. go into space.
2. set autopilot.
3. freeze.
4. wake up.
5. arrive at planet still alive.
how is beyond me, but damn it, it can be done![/QUOTE]
Imagine if humans colonized this way. Colonies of humans separated by thousands and thousands of years on different planets. We wouldn't become a united species anymore. If we decided to travel we would be traveling blind into the future. And the I mean theoretically you could travel more than once if you wanted (given proper circumstances).
It's a cool sci-fi idea.
[QUOTE=i-am-teh-sex;40332378]That's really damn cool
It sucks that [B]we'll probably never get there[/B] though[/QUOTE]
it sucks that people are so pessimistic about this stuff
long before 1903 people laughed at the idea that man would fly
[thumb]http://www.aircraftrecognition.co.uk/images/Display%20teams/blue%20angels/Blue_Angels_on_Delta_Formation.jpg[/thumb]
what was that? man couldn't fly?
oh, I'm sorry, I thought I was hearing things. I'm pretty sure you said "We'll probably never get there".
[sp] Not trying to be a dick, just be hopeful. Someday. Maybe not in your grandkids life time, but, you get the point. [/sp]
[QUOTE=DanRatherman;40333122]I think one possible future we rarely consider is that we have an Extraterrestrial encounter and the aliums are TOO nice; having long evolved past the need for warfare. So naturally we kill them and take their technology before conquering their worlds.
Shit works both ways.[/QUOTE]
Sweet, more video game ideas
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