Gliese 581g, the most Earth-like planet found so far

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...0-light-years-away-support-life.html?ITO=1490

 

[Alex The Great]

Very Cool. I suppose the Alien invasion will come from them then

 

[CBGB]

****in' Awesome!

 

[Speedball]

It'll just get eaten up in a few billion year, but i guess by then we'll find a way to stunt a stars growth.

 

[Alex The Great]

Impossible Speedball. Stars are way to powerful to control

Also, The Sun is going crap out in 5 Billion years, so their deaths will be around the same time.

 

[Speedball]

Impossible Speedball. Stars are way to powerful to control

Also, The Sun is going crap out in 5 Billion years, so their deaths will be around the same time.

But billions of years into the future, who knows what'll be around. Have you never seen an episode of Doctor Who?!

 

[Alex The Great]

But billions of years into the future, who knows what'll be around. Have you never seen an episode of Doctor Who?!

Humans won't exist in a billion years!

 

[Speedball]

Humans won't exist in a billion years!

Yes we will! We've been here since the beginning of time, and we'll be there at the end!

 

[Alex The Great]

Yes we will! We've been here since the beginning of time, and we'll be there at the end!

We've only existed for like, a million years and our species is already starting to crap out

 

[Raiden]

How soon can the scientist develop the warp drive so we can move over to that planet? I hope it will be in my lifetime.

 

[Raiden]

We've only existed for like, a million years and our species is already starting to crap out

A million? I thought homo sabien's history only goes back to about 100,000 years ago.

 

[Speedball]

We've only existed for like, a million years and our species is already starting to crap out

LOL!
Yeah, we are. We need to evolve again, but we've messed with so much and figured so much out, there's no telling how evolution will kick in for us.

 

[Speedball]

A million? I thought homo sabien's history only goes back to about 100,000 years ago.

Wrong, 6000 years!
God made the sun, earth, man and woman in six days, and on the seventh rested and created the Remington Bolt-Action Rifle to hunt the Dinosaurs, and the homosexuals.

 

[Alex The Great]

A million? I thought homo sabien's history only goes back to about 100,000 years ago.

Yeah that's right

LOL!
Yeah, we are. We need to evolve again, but we've messed with so much and figured so much out, there's no telling how evolution will kick in for us.

Indeed. Humans are over populating the Earth. If the entire Amazon were to be cut down, the Earth's atmosphere would have 20% less oxygen, I think.

 

[THE MR. TERRIFIC]

Holy Crap!! It's Krypton!! It's under a red dwarf star!



is Coming!!

 

[Speedball]

Holy Crap!! It's Krypton!! It's under a red dwarf star!



is Coming!!

Rao was a red giant...
Get your nerd facts right!

 

[The Question]

LOL!
Yeah, we are. We need to evolve again, but we've messed with so much and figured so much out, there's no telling how evolution will kick in for us.

That's not how evolution works. Evolution is the process by which characteristics that enable survival are carried on to the next generation while characteristics that hinder it die out of the gene pool. Our technology has grown to the point where that's not really relevant to our lives anymore. People can be born with birth defects or with a much more efficient physiology, but technology puts them on a relatively even playing field in terms of surviving long enough to reproduce, with the obvious exception of extreme cases of illness. We pretty much evolve and adapt through technology now, not through random mutation.

 

[Speedball]

That's not how evolution works. Evolution is the process by which characteristics that enable survival are carried on to the next generation while characteristics that hinder it die out of the gene pool. Our technology has grown to the point where that's not really relevant to our lives anymore. People can be born with birth defects or with a much more efficient physiology, but technology puts them on a relatively even playing field in terms of surviving long enough to reproduce, with the obvious exception of extreme cases of illness. We pretty much evolve and adapt through technology now, not through random mutation.

I know how evolution works >.<
I just didn't go into great detail on how we've messed with it, like you did. Yes, tech has allowed us to change how we evolve, or stop evolving altogether. But there's sometimes a catalyst triggering evolution, such as an ice age or great period of tectonic upheaval.

 

[enterthemadness]

How has technology changed evolution? You mean people aren't using their full brain power for psych abilities or something? isn't that a myth?

 

[THE MR. TERRIFIC]

Rao was a red giant...
Get your nerd facts right!

SORRY!

 

[Alex The Great]

How has technology changed evolution? You mean people aren't using their full brain power for psych abilities or something? isn't that a myth?

What? No. The survival of the fittest isn't really in effect for humans. If a kid is born with 1 arm, he'll live. In the wild, the bay would have been killed real quick like.

 

[Speedball]

How has technology changed evolution? You mean people aren't using their full brain power for psych abilities or something? isn't that a myth?

I mean the ability to alter genetics and get rid of things we don't like. You don't want your kids to have blue eyes, well then ask someone to get rid of it.
Though red heads and blue eyes are dying off actually, because brown hair and brown eyes are a dominant trait.

 

[Speedball]

SORRY!

It's ok, at least you knew it was a red something.
(sorry, i'm acting weird, i think I've had too much caffiene)

 

[Anubis]

What? No. The survival of the fittest isn't really in effect for humans. If a kid is born with 1 arm, he'll live. In the wild, the bay would have been killed real quick like.

Which means now he can have all the one armed babies he can get. Which is surprisingly a lot cuz there are lots of women willing to have sex with a one armed dude.

 

[GhostPoet]

So...I have a question. I'm assuming we don't have a probe out that far so we're looking at it through a telescope lens, right?

How do they know what the surface tempature is? Or the gravity level? Or what the atmospheric composition and ground composition is? They are talking as if they know for certain...so...how?