In planetary orbit around a red dwarf star that is just the 17th closest to our own earth, this planet is said to VERY likely contain water, and quite possibly life. Thus far scientists have determined that it is also very likely to be quite near, if not exactly as earth on its surface. . .
Proof that life does exits elsewhere within the universe? Perhaps! Time will tell!
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2022489,00.html?hpt=T2 (http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2022489,00.html?hpt=T2)
They ever decide to send a manned mission to this place, let me be the very first to volunteer to go! :yes: 8) And if it turns out to be like earth, I may not come back! (Just put my Harley in the cargo hold okay? And a 1000 gallon fuel pod. . .)
It's only 20 light years away. ;D
How ya' gonna' get there?
Quote from: Locutus on September 29, 2010, 09:23:12 PM
It's only 20 light years away. ;D
How ya' gonna' get there?
Well hell, I'll just have myself cloned of course! :biggrin:
Sign me up too! How long will it take? I'll need to stock up on youth serum and patrone to make sure that I can live long enough to make it. But they still better hurry. We'll need a vehicle faster than the spped of light. :biggrin:
I'm super excited about this. I think that it's arrogant of us to assume that we are the only life in space. As excited as I am about the discovery, I'm sad too b/c if anyone can find a way to exploit this, it's us.
Can you imagine if we found a way to move there, assuming that no one is there and 100's of years from that time you'd have wackos running around talking about how the planet was created for them. ;D
Or worse, someone is living there and we invade pretty much like we have throughout history. Of course we have a right to that planet, right? :rolleyes;
Quote from: Locutus on September 29, 2010, 09:23:12 PM
It's only 20 light years away. ;D
How ya' gonna' get there?
Who knows? One hundred years ago, how were we going to get to the moon? The rate of technological advance is increasing exponentially.
Personally, I'm not all that interested in getting to Gliese 581g. I just want to get into space! It's been number one on my bucket list since I watched Neil Armstrong take that first step on the moon.
It's wonderful, it's great science, but it's way beyond my life span. What I would like to see before I go is to find life in in our solar system and life in the universe.
Because I would like to see how the "Religions" handle it. It should blow some of their dogma out of the water. I wonder what the Pope :pope: would say and how our religious nuts :preach: would handle it. :groan: :devil29: :rotfl: :rotfl: :knife:
I am with you on that religion thing Troll! :biggrin:
Finding "life" there would be exciting, finding intelligent life there would be astonishing!
As to how we get there; I've been trying to steer some of you down the path to exploration of the ZPF for quite awhile now. (Zero Point Field). The fact is that it quite possibly represents the answers to the challenges of space travel and NASA and the US Government have been investigating and experimenting in those possibilities for years now.
Validated scientific experiments at the molecular level have already established that it represents the very real likelihood that Einstein was wrong when he stated that the speed of light was the maximum speed attainable within the universe. Moreover, utilization of the ZPF as a source of endless energy to "fuel" spacecraft and to overcome the laws of gravity, inertia, and friction that represent their own challenges to space travel, are all very real possibilities represented by the ZPF!
Once humankind figures out those puzzles, our "world" will change forever!