Potentially Habitable Planet Found

Yeah, destroy this planet and then move on to destroy another planet.

120 trillion miles away? Good luck reaching that planet.

We'll never reach it.

Originally posted by Vinny Valentine
We'll never reach it.

You don't know that for sure Vin. Perhaps this might actually encourage more funding for NASA.

Man the only thing we really need, that MIGHT be achieveable in our life times is some kind of suspended animation or stasis of some sort that if it doesnt halt aging, at least be able to slow it down. And a semi advanced A.I. that could pilot a ship around potential dangers in space. Now while a huge ship carriing thousands will cost too much, we could send several ships capable of carrying 20 or 30 max, since fuel usage should be minimal. The stasis presumable wouldnt require much energy, but a small solar or some such rechargeable energy source could be used either for all of the pods (bad idea), or small units for each (the a.i. would regulate the thing of course, also a better idea). If this were possible, then I'd sign up for it!

Nasa have designs for space probes which use the solar power of the sun to reach speeds of up to 10% the speed of light, was on some discovery programe (was also at least 7-10 years ago). Would only take... 200 years. lol.

i think findin dis new planet Gliese 581C is jus great. A newly discovered planet is the most stunning evidence that life - just like us - might be out there. they r still doin some research to find if it has water on it.......its 20 light years away and 15 times d size of Earth..... and, most importantly, temperatures are very similar to those on our world. it has a sun it orbits jus like ours though its about 3 times our suns size though not as hot......... about 50 times colder.

Originally posted by The Overmaster
Man the only thing we really need, that MIGHT be achieveable in our life times is some kind of suspended animation or stasis of some sort that if it doesnt halt aging, at least be able to slow it down. And a semi advanced A.I. that could pilot a ship around potential dangers in space. Now while a huge ship carriing thousands will cost too much, we could send several ships capable of carrying 20 or 30 max, since fuel usage should be minimal. The stasis presumable wouldnt require much energy, but a small solar or some such rechargeable energy source could be used either for all of the pods (bad idea), or small units for each (the a.i. would regulate the thing of course, also a better idea). If this were possible, then I'd sign up for it!

You overlook the maintenance the ship needs. Think how long it would take to reach the planet and the amount of maintenance it would require.

Plus they are still not definite that it can support life, just that it's possible. I read somewhere that there have been at least 220 occasions where an astronomer has come this close to finding a planet that could support life and the have always been wrong 🙁

Originally posted by BobbyD
Plant a tree! Reverse global warming. 😄

Global warming is irreversible, because it is not human enduced. So plant a tree for shade 😄

Originally posted by DarkCrawler
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070425/ap_on_sc/habitable_planet

Pretty awesome, eh? 😄

Uhhh....if the planet is larger then earth then we can't live there.

It would have a higher gravitational pull,so wouldn't we be crushed?