First habitable planet discovered - Polidicks

[QUOTE=joe588;29926287]isn't it obiting a dying star[/QUOTE] Red dwarves age really slowly. They can stay at one stage for like 100 billion years. [editline]19th May 2011[/editline] So no.

[QUOTE=toaster468;29891939]This makes me want to play Spore.[/QUOTE] Im loading this up as I post it. Hehehe.

[QUOTE=sltlamina;29906257]Humanity is INCREDIBLY tenacious and stubborn. Once we have a clear goal in sight, and the funding to reach it, there's very little (if anything) that can prevent us from getting there. We've put men on the fucking moon. I mean... do you have any fucking idea just how crazy that is? We did it at the end of the 60s, too![/QUOTE] Actually I think we could be much more advanced than we are. But that's just afterthoughts, I know. I mean, time is money. You spend money as efficiently as possible, same as you spend your time as efficiently as possible. Have we, humans, spent our time so far as efficiently as possible? v:v:v I don't think so. But then again, we have all the time in the world.

Then we make a series of war and servant robots, they turn on us and rebel years after a war and they dissapear, we get pushed away from our planet and we eventually settle on this planet only to be found again. Now, what to name it; New Earth? Caprica?

I read about this years ago and even made a crappy picture of it back then [url]http://chrillen.deviantart.com/#/d1fuats[/url]

alright then cya guys!

[QUOTE=Gekkosan;29930018]Actually I think we could be much more advanced than we are. But that's just afterthoughts, I know. I mean, time is money. You spend money as efficiently as possible, same as you spend your time as efficiently as possible. Have we, humans, spent our time so far as efficiently as possible? v:v:v I don't think so. But then again, we have all the time in the world.[/QUOTE] If time is money, then we could print out a bunch of money then take it to a bank to get it converted into time, then we have [b]infinite time[/b] which we could use to get to this planet [img]http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6RWE6iEodP0/TYpU3wkPHzI/AAAAAAAABTU/2M4HO_SY0ic/s1600/Aww-Yeah-meme.png[/img]

[QUOTE=Asshat;29891852]Theres proably shitloads of gold! And crabs![/QUOTE] Jeweled scuttling crabs to smash and eat Majestic gazelles to sit on What more would a Vogon want?

can you imagine the kind of workout you would get from living there every time you get up from a chair you'd be deadlifting your entire body weight

[QUOTE=Binladen34;29891909]A normal space shuttle travels at 20,000 MPH. That's [I]WHILE IT'S LEAVING THE ATMOSPHERE[/I] which is usually pretty damn tough since gravity wants you down here. If you continue through space with thrusters engaged constantly, your speed will multiply because no friction and gravity holding you down. Essentially, you could reach a couple hundred thousand miles per hour after a few days\weeks of constant thrust.[/QUOTE] Actually because there is not atmosphere to be used in space thrusters are pretty useless in large quantities and would just burn fuel. Haven't you guys played Orbiter?

[QUOTE=imasillypiggy;29918351]According to startrek the males of an alien species are gross[/QUOTE] so I'm an alien species

it's too bad i'll never get to see this planet's surface in my lifetime [img]http://gyazo.com/6c3c6d4837975cdc7bb28f2075b10161.png[/img] [editline]20th May 2011[/editline] [img]http://gyazo.com/dc3e561760e83f9f8a68c9e076805b10.png[/img] [img]http://gyazo.com/dfb87c1e0cd93a4e2315021a7370a2ec.png[/img] [img]http://gyazo.com/b2cea6479398ded6dcc90634c06d68e4.png[/img] [img]http://gyazo.com/cec5a13f4c61f93dc09dee82dab5c7e3.png[/img] [img]http://gyazo.com/4e69590041e453e3df0d7194234631d1.png[/img]

[QUOTE]Gravity twice that of earth's, doubling the weight of anyone standing on the surface.[/QUOTE] Guess that rules out the Americans landing there. [img]http://gyazo.com/aea2a48e5611da2da1678f9ebe7e194a.png[/img] [img]http://gyazo.com/71650dd1ae275612df88653feeb83830.png[/img]

Why not just send some hobo into space and hope that he comes back with laser guns and gold.

This thread again? :roll: We had this four to six months ago... Damn FP has bad memory.

I expect Na'Vi and rich ores...

[QUOTE=imadaman;29941750]This thread again? :roll: We had this four to six months ago... Damn FP has bad memory.[/QUOTE] Gliese 581d was actually first discovered back in 2007.

I refuse to live on a planet in the fucking Goldilocks Zone.

you do

[QUOTE=JustGman;29942526]I refuse to live on a planet in the fucking Goldilocks Zone.[/QUOTE] I'm guessing you live on Uranus then?

I am pretty sure double the gravity is a bad thing. Most of us would be crushed. I doubt it has any sentient inhabitants.

[QUOTE=mchapra;29942897]I am pretty sure double the gravity is a bad thing. Most of us would be crushed. I doubt it has any sentient inhabitants.[/QUOTE] Life adapts to the environment its in, or it dies off. If anything was alive there, it'd be really strong, particularly in the limbs. It'd have to be.

[QUOTE=mchapra;29942897]I am pretty sure double the gravity is a bad thing. Most of us would be crushed. I doubt it has any sentient inhabitants.[/QUOTE] You don't see people getting crushed on roller coasters, do you?

[QUOTE=ExplodingGuy;29942914]You don't see people getting crushed on roller coasters, do you?[/QUOTE] You don't get crushed under 2g that's for sure, then again you don't experience 2g in a rollercoaster for very long, the physiological problems (and benefits?) that arise from living in a 2g environment are as of currently unknown. One thing for sure. If the current style of human growth continues (most growth is done by the body at night) we wont get shorter. In fact we would become built like WH 40K Space marines.

[QUOTE=Rubs10;29915967]Space shuttles aren't like cars. There's no friction in space, so you only need fuel to speed up or slow down.[/QUOTE] There is friction in space .. its called gravity. You will slow down very slowly and eventually come to a stop. But still humans will run out of oxygen unless we stick ants on the rocket or something. [editline]20th May 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=ExplodingGuy;29942914]You don't see people getting crushed on roller coasters, do you?[/QUOTE] When there is more gravity it is harder for you to stand, to prevent this your body makes you muscles. A person that weighs 500lbs will have more muscle then someone that is 100lbs because it is harder for them to move.

[QUOTE=zzaacckk;29944131]There is friction in space .. its called gravity. You will slow down very slowly and eventually come to a stop. But still humans will run out of oxygen unless we stick ants on the rocket or something. [/QUOTE] Gravity isn't "friction in space". Gravity is a force, pulling mass towards mass. Friction is a force resisting motion when materials slide against each other. They're two fundamentally different things.

[QUOTE=Raiskauskone V2;29890918]Only 20 lightyears? That's pretty fucking close. *edit* Okay, maybe not too close. But when comparing to other "earth-like" planets, this is really close. Hell, you can reach it within a span of a human time, it wouldn't take hundreds of years.[/QUOTE] Yeah it's close alright. it's taken 30 years for the Voyagers to go 1/5000th of one light year But I guess in the broad scope of things, it is pretty close Also, There is friction in space, but it's friction. Not Gravity. And it's insignificant. We're talking less than a thousand atoms worth of hydrogen per cubic meter. And if you think about it, compared to the other forces, Gravity is fuckin' weak. Take your fridge magnet. (ElectroMagnetism) It's the size of a quarter, or there abouts, holding up some papers or pictures, against the ENTIRE planet's gravitational force pulling down on it

Stop saying it's so far away. It's really not. The nearest star is only 4.2 lightyears away, that's just 4.5 times as much. It would be FAR FAR away if it was 100 or more lightyears away, but 20 is nothing compared to most other stars.

[QUOTE=Rapist;29946362]Stop saying it's so far away. It's really not. The nearest star is only 4.2 lightyears away, that's just 4.5 times as much. It would be FAR FAR away if it was 100 or more lightyears away, but 20 is nothing compared to most other stars.[/QUOTE] It's relative. Sure, 20 light years is nothing compared to the scale of the universe, but 20 light years is a hell of a long way when the farthest you have managed to venture in space is 0.0018 light years in a time span of 30 years.

[QUOTE=JustGman;29942526]I refuse to live on a planet in the fucking Goldilocks Zone.[/QUOTE] The best course of action for you is to kill yourself then. Then you'll be dead on a planet in the Goldilocks zone.