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Title: First Potentially Habitable Planet Was Discovered
Post by: 3mnkids on September 30, 2010, 12:51:45 PM
http://news.softpedia.com/news/First-Potentially-Habitable-Planet-Was-Discovered-158806.shtml

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A NASA and NSF-funded research, carried out by a team from the University of California Santa Cruz and the Carnegie Institution of Washington, has announced the discovery of an exoplanet, three times the mass of Earth, that orbits a nearby star and is placed in the middle of the star's “habitable zone”.

They have shared the exciting discovery after eleven years of observations, with one of the largest optical telescopes in the world, the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii.

A “potentially habitable planet” is a planet on which life could exist, but not necessarily human life, and this depends on several factors, out of which having liquid water and atmosphere are sine qua non.

And as the planet is placed in an area where liquid water could exist on its surface, the Gliese 581g (named after its star Gliese 581) could be the most Earth-like exoplanet ever discovered.



Title: Re: First Potentially Habitable Planet Was Discovered
Post by: 10,000 Volt Ghost on September 30, 2010, 03:24:13 PM
Read this earlier and was really excited. I'm taking bets on how long it'll take us to ruin this new planet.


Title: Re: First Potentially Habitable Planet Was Discovered
Post by: Umaril The Unfeathered on September 30, 2010, 08:32:52 PM
Read this earlier and was really excited. I'm taking bets on how long it'll take us to ruin this new planet.

But first we have to to get there. Calling the Robinson family....



Title: Re: First Potentially Habitable Planet Was Discovered
Post by: The Gravekeeper on September 30, 2010, 08:47:10 PM
Read this earlier and was really excited. I'm taking bets on how long it'll take us to ruin this new planet.

$50 says we start complaining about the state of it within 100 years of making it safe for humans to live on.


Title: Re: First Potentially Habitable Planet Was Discovered
Post by: Umaril The Unfeathered on September 30, 2010, 09:16:40 PM
Read this earlier and was really excited. I'm taking bets on how long it'll take us to ruin this new planet.

$50 says we start complaining about the state of it within 100 years of making it safe for humans to live on.

Not to mention the fun we'll be having with the indigenous inhabitants of the place. Another 1492 of sorts..


Title: Re: First Potentially Habitable Planet Was Discovered
Post by: InformationGeek on October 01, 2010, 08:10:31 PM
First potentially habitable planet discovered?  Well I guess that makes sense seeing how most aliens always seem to come to our planet, everywhere seems to be a bad place to live.


Title: Re: First Potentially Habitable Planet Was Discovered
Post by: Umaril The Unfeathered on October 01, 2010, 09:00:25 PM
First potentially habitable planet discovered?  Well I guess that makes sense seeing how most aliens always seem to come to our planet, everywhere seems to be a bad place to live.

Coming to Earth to get away from the trouble in their own backyards? Now there's a switch. With everything going on now I'd say they were getting a bad deal  :buggedout:


Title: Re: First Potentially Habitable Planet Was Discovered
Post by: The Gravekeeper on October 01, 2010, 09:49:44 PM
First potentially habitable planet discovered?  Well I guess that makes sense seeing how most aliens always seem to come to our planet, everywhere seems to be a bad place to live.

Coming to Earth to get away from the trouble in their own backyards? Now there's a switch. With everything going on now I'd say they were getting a bad deal  :buggedout:

Alien: Let's invade Earth so that we can use their abundant fossil fuel deposits to replace our diminishing reserves! They ARE abundant, right? I mean, we did just check up on them not 200 years ago when we set out on our quest to invade them.


Title: Re: First Potentially Habitable Planet Was Discovered
Post by: dean on October 01, 2010, 10:28:16 PM

I like how the planet orbits with the sun, in that one side is always dark, and one always sunny.  You could stage some pretty epic good vs evil fights on that planet!  It would also make a great location for a sci-fi 'Heaven and Hell is a planet separated by light' story crossed with avatar or something.

I also like how one of the scientists apparently said he was 100% sure there will be life on that planet.   :teddyr:

Confident chap.  Let the genocide of the native population begin!


Title: Re: First Potentially Habitable Planet Was Discovered
Post by: The Gravekeeper on October 01, 2010, 11:02:15 PM

I like how the planet orbits with the sun, in that one side is always dark, and one always sunny.  You could stage some pretty epic good vs evil fights on that planet!  It would also make a great location for a sci-fi 'Heaven and Hell is a planet separated by light' story crossed with avatar or something.

I also like how one of the scientists apparently said he was 100% sure there will be life on that planet.   :teddyr:

Confident chap.  Let the genocide of the native population begin!

Is it genocide if it's just, say, bacteria? 'Cuz we do that every day without even trying.


Title: Re: First Potentially Habitable Planet Was Discovered
Post by: dean on October 02, 2010, 11:03:32 AM

Oh I'm just hoping we find some alien race and find a way to kill it.

Just another bug hunt, you know.  We've done it before, I think I saw some footage of it around here somewhere?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWhrGGrs3Ow


Title: Re: First Potentially Habitable Planet Was Discovered
Post by: The Gravekeeper on October 02, 2010, 11:23:00 AM
Yeah, but remember what happened that other time we encountered a somewhat intelligent but very aggresive alien species? Y'know...the ones that burst out of people's chests? That didn't end well. Mind you, if we'd sent in a whole army instead of a handful of soldiers, well, who knows. Maybe we wouldn't have had to nuke the site from orbit.


Title: Re: First Potentially Habitable Planet Was Discovered
Post by: Jim H on October 02, 2010, 06:58:54 PM
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A “potentially habitable planet” is a planet on which life could exist, but not necessarily human life, and this depends on several factors, out of which having liquid water and atmosphere are sine qua non.

And by "life could exist" they mean life similar to the lifeforms of Earth.  There isn't any reason to think other forms of life could not exist in different types of environments. 


Title: Re: First Potentially Habitable Planet Was Discovered
Post by: Raffine on October 02, 2010, 09:46:39 PM
If life on Gliese evolved along similar lines as Earth without any pesky meteor strikes maybe the locals look more like this:

(http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t214/morrisawilliams/dinosaurs-tv-show.jpg)


Title: Re: First Potentially Habitable Planet Was Discovered
Post by: The Gravekeeper on October 02, 2010, 10:28:21 PM
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A “potentially habitable planet” is a planet on which life could exist, but not necessarily human life, and this depends on several factors, out of which having liquid water and atmosphere are sine qua non.

And by "life could exist" they mean life similar to the lifeforms of Earth.  There isn't any reason to think other forms of life could not exist in different types of environments. 

Like water bears. Adorable little micro-organisms that not only survived for 10 days in the vacuum of space, but actually bred in it. If nuclear armageddon were to happen right now, the water bears wouldn't really notice.


Title: Re: First Potentially Habitable Planet Was Discovered
Post by: Umaril The Unfeathered on October 05, 2010, 11:34:48 AM

I like how the planet orbits with the sun, in that one side is always dark, and one always sunny.  You could stage some pretty epic good vs evil fights on that planet!  It would also make a great location for a sci-fi 'Heaven and Hell is a planet separated by light' story crossed with avatar or something.

I also like how one of the scientists apparently said he was 100% sure there will be life on that planet.   :teddyr:

Confident chap.  Let the genocide of the native population begin!

Kind of reminds me of a small comic I saw in our local newspaper once:

It shows 2 U.S. astronauts on Mars, one shaking hands with the local alien leader, and smiling and saying "we mean you no harm."   And in the second frame, they show 2 American Indians on horseback, one looking at the other and saying " yeah, that's what they told us..."

It drives the point home, that's for sure.


Title: Re: First Potentially Habitable Planet Was Discovered
Post by: Mean Machine on October 05, 2010, 12:33:03 PM
So, this planet is like earth, but it's bigger, has higher gravity and orbits a red star?

Uh, haven't we heard of a planet like this, except it exploded?

 Just for fun, let's start a drive to call this planet "Krypton", and have earth type planets orbiting red stars called "Krypton class" planets, especially if they're bigger and have higher G than earth.


Title: Re: First Potentially Habitable Planet Was Discovered
Post by: The Gravekeeper on October 05, 2010, 10:39:44 PM
So, this planet is like earth, but it's bigger, has higher gravity and orbits a red star?

Uh, haven't we heard of a planet like this, except it exploded?

 Just for fun, let's start a drive to call this planet "Krypton", and have earth type planets orbiting red stars called "Krypton class" planets, especially if they're bigger and have higher G than earth.

Higher gravity? I don't know how I missed that in the article, but I can foresee at least half of the population sent to colonize this planet suffering from joint pain (especially in the knees) very quickly after settling in.


Title: Re: First Potentially Habitable Planet Was Discovered
Post by: Umaril The Unfeathered on October 05, 2010, 11:20:09 PM
So, this planet is like earth, but it's bigger, has higher gravity and orbits a red star?

Uh, haven't we heard of a planet like this, except it exploded?

 Just for fun, let's start a drive to call this planet "Krypton", and have earth type planets orbiting red stars called "Krypton class" planets, especially if they're bigger and have higher G than earth.

Higher gravity? I don't know how I missed that in the article, but I can foresee at least half of the population sent to colonize this planet suffering from joint pain (especially in the knees) very quickly after settling in.

Another consideration, those of normal weight on Earth at 1 G would be possible two to three more times the weight on a planet with such a gravity. I believe that gravity is relative to a planet's mass (I could be wrong) and this would create a problem on a planet of this mass.

One thing that would be interesting though, is to see the long-term adaptation
and development of people natively born on the planet, as opposed to first-gen Earth imports.

What type of bodies would they develop in a higher gravity atmosphere? What would be the cardio-vascular effects?  The overall difference between native Earth folk and the ones born on and adapted to the planet is very interesting in it's potential.


Title: Re: First Potentially Habitable Planet Was Discovered
Post by: dean on October 06, 2010, 04:47:45 AM
So, this planet is like earth, but it's bigger, has higher gravity and orbits a red star?

Uh, haven't we heard of a planet like this, except it exploded?

 Just for fun, let's start a drive to call this planet "Krypton", and have earth type planets orbiting red stars called "Krypton class" planets, especially if they're bigger and have higher G than earth.

Higher gravity? I don't know how I missed that in the article, but I can foresee at least half of the population sent to colonize this planet suffering from joint pain (especially in the knees) very quickly after settling in.

Another consideration, those of normal weight on Earth at 1 G would be possible two to three more times the weight on a planet with such a gravity. I believe that gravity is relative to a planet's mass (I could be wrong) and this would create a problem on a planet of this mass.

One thing that would be interesting though, is to see the long-term adaptation
and development of people natively born on the planet, as opposed to first-gen Earth imports.

What type of bodies would they develop in a higher gravity atmosphere? What would be the cardio-vascular effects?  The overall difference between native Earth folk and the ones born on and adapted to the planet is very interesting in it's potential.

And thus breeding a race of supermen, leading the name Krypton to be quite a good choice for this new planet!


Title: Re: First Potentially Habitable Planet Was Discovered
Post by: Umaril The Unfeathered on October 06, 2010, 08:01:55 AM
So, this planet is like earth, but it's bigger, has higher gravity and orbits a red star?

Uh, haven't we heard of a planet like this, except it exploded?

 Just for fun, let's start a drive to call this planet "Krypton", and have earth type planets orbiting red stars called "Krypton class" planets, especially if they're bigger and have higher G than earth.

Higher gravity? I don't know how I missed that in the article, but I can foresee at least half of the population sent to colonize this planet suffering from joint pain (especially in the knees) very quickly after settling in.

Another consideration, those of normal weight on Earth at 1 G would be possible two to three more times the weight on a planet with such a gravity. I believe that gravity is relative to a planet's mass (I could be wrong) and this would create a problem on a planet of this mass.

One thing that would be interesting though, is to see the long-term adaptation
and development of people natively born on the planet, as opposed to first-gen Earth imports.

What type of bodies would they develop in a higher gravity atmosphere? What would be the cardio-vascular effects?  The overall difference between native Earth folk and the ones born on and adapted to the planet is very interesting in it's potential.

And thus breeding a race of supermen, leading the name Krypton to be quite a good choice for this new planet!

Hey, ya' never know!  Or maybe we'll evolve into Saiyans  :smile: 
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Title: Re: First Potentially Habitable Planet Was Discovered
Post by: The Gravekeeper on October 06, 2010, 10:13:45 AM
So, this planet is like earth, but it's bigger, has higher gravity and orbits a red star?

Uh, haven't we heard of a planet like this, except it exploded?

 Just for fun, let's start a drive to call this planet "Krypton", and have earth type planets orbiting red stars called "Krypton class" planets, especially if they're bigger and have higher G than earth.

Higher gravity? I don't know how I missed that in the article, but I can foresee at least half of the population sent to colonize this planet suffering from joint pain (especially in the knees) very quickly after settling in.

Another consideration, those of normal weight on Earth at 1 G would be possible two to three more times the weight on a planet with such a gravity. I believe that gravity is relative to a planet's mass (I could be wrong) and this would create a problem on a planet of this mass.

One thing that would be interesting though, is to see the long-term adaptation
and development of people natively born on the planet, as opposed to first-gen Earth imports.

What type of bodies would they develop in a higher gravity atmosphere? What would be the cardio-vascular effects?  The overall difference between native Earth folk and the ones born on and adapted to the planet is very interesting in it's potential.

And thus breeding a race of supermen, leading the name Krypton to be quite a good choice for this new planet!

Provided they bring lots of cows with them. Hey, they're gonna need lots of milk to develop bones strong enough to stand up to the higher gravity. Granted, if they came back here they'd have to work hard to keep up their strength since having lower resistance would result in weaker bones and muscles (something that astronauts have to deal with when they're in space for extended periods of time).


Title: Re: First Potentially Habitable Planet Was Discovered
Post by: Umaril The Unfeathered on October 06, 2010, 04:03:47 PM
Provided they bring lots of cows with them. Hey, they're gonna need lots of milk to develop bones strong enough to stand up to the higher gravity. Granted, if they came back here they'd have to work hard to keep up their strength since having lower resistance would result in weaker bones and muscles (something that astronauts have to deal with when they're in space for extended periods of time).

True. A larger mass on a planet with lower gravity would see a major weakness in the individual.  Much in the same way that bodybuilders must keep up their strength thru continual diet-exercise to maintain their mass and strength. 

Funny how atmospere and related issues effect people and things.