WE ARE SAVED! HUMANITY WILL SURVIVE!

[NObama]

First Habitable Exoplanet discovered:  http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/09/real-habitable-exoplanet/

Finally, I can rest easier at night knowing humanity will have a new planet to occupy when our sun goes nova.  Plus, this planet's sun may never go nova.

I went online and bought the right to name the star after myself =D  You're all going to be orbiting planet me in your cyborg/virtual bodies.

 

[Masscre]

Can I have a continent named after me since i am your friend nobama

[NObama]

Possibly.  I can't make any promises until I know how many continents there are.  Perhaps an atoll?

[Masscre]

Yea I can be happy with an atoll or possibly a decent sized island

[Ultima]

Crazy and fascinating! Good find Sir!

So they think there are a bunch of habitable planets in our galaxy if we set up a telescope to search for them 24/7...

What was the size of this planet compared to earth? Did I miss that in the article?

This is good news for sure for future generations and a glimmer of hope for humanity.

We have a long way to go though...

Man needs to learn how to co-exist on this planet as well as protect and secure the other life forms that inhabit this planet. As well as Mother Earth herself.

Baby steps I guess but right now our track record isn't so hot so as much as it's great to see the possibility of life continuing to flow in perpetuity there is something innate with man that is his largest obstacle to overcome. We are our own enemy.

As Achilles said in the movie Troy  "We men are wretched things".

Also this stands to reason...statistically speaking that perhaps we are not alone given the possibily for habitual planets within our own galaxy. Though there is no scientific evidence, the eyewitness testimony of many credible witness regarding seeing something in the sky has more and more legitmacy.

Perhaps visitors from Gliese 581g?

If we ever get to that point where we can travel to other planets and find life via a Star Trek enterprise I most certainly don't want us doing what was done to the native Indians.

Call me naive but it's definitely my hope that as mankind grows technologically so do we morally and spiritually.

[NObama]

The planet is about 3 times the size of ours, but less dense so they calculate it has about the same gravity.  The only habitable part is at the day/night divide, but that's still a lot of land.  Think Ringworld!

 

[TrailMyx]

Sounds like a planetary-size chocolate chip cookie!  I'm in!

[Scrripty]

I think people with skin conditions should live on the bright side.  And emos on the dark side.  Seperation without segregation!

[Masscre]

The planet is about 3 times the size of ours, but less dense so they calculate it has about the same gravity.  The only habitable part is at the day/night divide, but that's still a lot of land.  Think Ringworld!

 

It has about 3 times the mass not size. It also has three times the gravity. Just a few small correctiones there and the day side would be scorching hot and the dark side would be cold to say the least. The only real habital part would be kind of a twilight region in the middle ring which would be sort of a temperate area. The planet travel around its star at 36.6 days where as earth travels around it's star every 365 days, so it is fly pretty darn fast and as a result the day side is always facing the sun it never has a chance to turn.  the scorching side will always be scroching. Some nice data there.

[Scrripty]

The planet is about 3 times the size of ours, but less dense so they calculate it has about the same gravity.  The only habitable part is at the day/night divide, but that's still a lot of land.  Think Ringworld!

 

It has about 3 times the mass not size. It also has three times the gravity. Just a few small correctiones there and the day side would be scorching hot and the dark side would be cold to say the least. The only real habital part would be kind of a twilight region in the middle ring which would be sort of a temperate area. The planet travel around its star at 36.6 days where as earth travels around it's star every 365 days, so it is fly pretty darn fast and as a result the day side is always facing the sun it never has a chance to turn.  the scorching side will always be scroching. Some nice data there.

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They theorize the gravity will be about the same because the size of the sun there is so much smaller.  I don't think the point is that the conditions there are ideal, I think the point is, there's LIVABLE CONDITIONS. heh  It's a very large breakthrough.  We knew they were there, but finding one so close is HUGE.  We could theoretically already point a bucket into space and send people there if they could recycle their water and grow enough food.  Take generations but hey, we could seed another plant with life I bet.  Be risky as hell, but why the hell not... we got people crazy enough.  Send a few monkeys there crazy enough to go, give them the tech to respond to use here somehow... see what happens in 20k years... heh

[Cerveza]

There's better then 10% inhabitable planets in our solar system. Just how many solar systems are there out there again?

We'd better be finding some.