Potentially habitable extra-solar planet found (Cool!)

[Paul F.]

Don't go getting your hopes up YET...
It's 20.5 light years away... or about 150 years at the most optomistic possible speed that we can get ANYTHING moving at right now.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070425/ap_o...e_planet_8

It seems that this world is the right distance from the star Gliese 581 to have liquid water on it.. which is a HUGE step towards the POSSIBILITY of life.

The world has roughly 1.6 times earths gravity, orbits it's star in 13 days (it's star is a red dwarf)... the star appears 20 times LARGER than our moon in it's sky.


Now.. if my *&^#$ internet connection will cooperate, I'm gonna go do some more reading...

[Racer X]

we should train Phylis Diller as an astronaut. She will probably still be alive when she gets there.

[haikuman]

I may have some nice Parcels for sale with an Ocean View on C581

[microchip13]

I call all of the land with a view on it!

[RAMd®d]

And how many light years away is it?

20,000 Light Years from Home

[mrbill62]

[quote Racer X]we should train Phylis Diller as an astronaut. She will probably still be alive when she gets there.
Abe Vigoda can be her co-pilot.

[will2000]

It is an M-class planet. PM me for the price of 5 acre lots I am selling. Get in on the ground floor!

[PeterB]

My lawyers tell me that I must inform all of you, I have patented all lifeforms, currently alive or dead, past or present, as well as their constituent genetic material, on that planet.

Now all your base belong to me!

[Racer X]

Only you would post that, and it's actually pretty damn funny.

[Tofer]

[quote Racer X]we should train Phylis Diller as an astronaut. She will probably still be alive when she gets there.
Ah, but the beauty of relativity is that you or I could potentially go somewhere that is 1000 light years away and in our personal time reference frame it might only take one year to get there. Your relatives on Earth would be long dead, but you'd be alive and kicking, checking out the cool new planet.

-Tofer