Astronomers confirm distant planet meets requirements to sustain human life

[terry78]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110516/sc_afp/spaceastronomyexoplanet


And if movies have taught us anything, it's teeming with alien vampires or something.

 

[chaseter]

Today's generation, the first thing the first person will say when they step on that planet is


FIRST!

 

[Lighthouse]

A confirmed life sustaining planet orbiting a red sun.......

 

[Asteroid-Man]

SUPERMAN!!!!!!!!!!

 

[DarkSovereignty]

pleasecallitkryptonpleasecallitkryptonpleasecallitkryptonpleasecallitkrypton

 

[Dark Phantom]

 

[Asteroid-Man]

You think Superman Returns was prophetic?

 

[Why Are You Crouching Spock?]

Europa (Jupiters moon) is thought to be able to have a form a form of life poosible. Likewise with Mars vast underground caves.

 

[Kane52630]

 

[Manic]

I propose we send a family of scientists, a handsome young pilot, and a menacing old man to that planet. Nothing could possibly go wrong on the way there.

 

[The Squirrel]

Dibs.

 

[Mace Bloodstone]

Predator planet

 

[Duke]

Perhaps by the time people get there humanity will be over their petty differences.

 

[SuperFerret]

Perhaps by the time people get there humanity will be over their petty differences.

 

[chaseter]

It will take like 100,000 years for us to get to this planet at our current rate of speed. Even if we ever achieved light speed, it would take 20 years.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

I wonder how long before we destroy that one.

 

[SuperFerret]

Considering we haven't destroyed any planet yet, probably a loooooong time.

 

[Midnyte_Sun]

300,000 years for us to reach it with current technology? Um, let's get back to colonizing the moon and Mars.

 

[Nell2ThaIzzay]

I love how people think they can define what "requirements" are needed for life, as if there is one standard.

On our own planet there are so many different life forms that live in so many various environments, many that humans say couldn't "sustain life", but do anyways. Yet we think that there isn't some species out there, in this infinite universe that we know so little about, that couldn't survive on planets that we deem "uninhabitable"?

I laugh at the arrogance of the people who think they so much.

 

[Why Are You Crouching Spock?]

I laugh at the arrogance of the people who think they so much.

Your laughing at people think they so much comes across as arrogant.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

300,000 years for us to reach it with current technology? Um, let's get back to colonizing the moon and Mars.

It's time to start looking for Mass Relays!

 

[chamber-music]

I propose we send a family of scientists, a handsome young pilot, and a menacing old man to that planet. Nothing could possibly go wrong on the way there.

Danger! Will Robinson Danger!

 

[Bubonic]

Considering our present rocket technology would make the trip around 300000 years we might want to let our great-great-great grandchildren worry about this one and let us focus on whats left of our world :P

 

[Why Are You Crouching Spock?]

Considering our present rocket technology would make the trip around 300000 years we might want to let our great-great-great grandchildren worry about this one and let us focus on whats left of our world :P

Maybe we will eventually create a ship the folds space to get to A to B then end up like Sam Neill in Event Horizon.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

Mass Relays are the solution!