HUMANOID PLANET DISCOVERED. HOW LONG BEFORE WE HAVE TO LEAVE?

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HUMANOID PLANET DISCOVERED. HOW LONG BEFORE WE HAVE TO LEAVE?

[+] ballot by aya
ACTIVE Thu Apr 26, 07 - Fri Apr 25, 08
A new planet has been discovered in constellation Libra.A new Earth-like planet was discovered thanks to HARPS (High Accuracy Radial Velocity for Planetary Searcher), a spectrograph that's one of the best instruments for detecting exoplanets. The planet is about 50% larger and 5 times heavier than Earth. It orbits Gliese 581 -- a diminutive "red dwarf" star located in the constellation Libra. The planet is being named Gliese 581 C. Gliese 581 C is the smallest planet ever found outside of our solar system and the first planet that meets scientists' standards of being potentially hospitable to life. Under current standards that scientists use to declare a planet habitable, Mars should also be able to host life.

How long before we have to leave?

Give it a hundred years
Five hundred years at least
at least 1000 years
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Voted : Give it a hundred years
When the first evident signs that President Gore- uh, Mister Gore- was right begin to leap out at us...

by Truthseeker013 on Thu Apr 26, 07 2:50pm [+]

I ask this not as some moral diatribe against pollution, or treating the Earth like a dump. But clearly, the earth can't sustain our way of life much longer, and unless the most unlimited human resource (human greed), finds some way to go green. So, unless corproations can radically change our way of life to sustain a new way of life, we'll have to leave. We'll probably have to leave anyway, because our resources like water may run our.

by aya on Thu Apr 26, 07 2:51pm [+]

You are aware of course that this planet is some 120 trillion miles away from us? At the speed of light, with an unlimited source of energy for acceleration and deceleration to the speed of light (probably more energy than there currently is in the universe), it would take 20.5 years.

If we ever develop even half of that sort of technology, it seems likely we would also devlop the technology to deal with the planets pollution problems.

"Space, is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mindboggingly big it is. I mean you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space"

by kingAlfredTheGreat on Thu Apr 26, 07 3:07pm [+]

"It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, but that not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so if every planet in the universe has a population of zero, then the entire population of the universe must also be zero, and any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination."

I really must read that book again.

by kingAlfredTheGreat on Thu Apr 26, 07 3:09pm [+]

Voted : Give it a hundred years
Once mankind unravels the mysteries of deep space travel, (worm holes, etc) and find short cuts to transverse infinite space, I'm outta here... 039

...but I want a round trip ticket just in case...

by thesoothsayer on Thu Apr 26, 07 3:51pm [+]

King, the point is, that no matter what, no matter where we go (hell, we could colonize Mars) in a hundred years, we're going to have to leave the planet we're on now.

by aya on Thu Apr 26, 07 5:05pm [+]

Voted : Five hundred years at least
This isn't going to be easy, even if the planet has water (only a possibility) and a breathable atmosphere (another if). Just wait and see ...

by skylab on Thu Apr 26, 07 5:05pm [+]

Even if there IS life there, it's awfully coy of us to assume that they'd want us there, or that they wouldn't attack us for trying to take their stuff.

by nuckinfutz on Thu Apr 26, 07 5:16pm [+]

Nobody's ever tried to contact us before, that shows us how well-liked we are if there IS life out there.

by nuckinfutz on Thu Apr 26, 07 5:18pm [+]

Voted : Give it a hundred years
Lots of highschool educated people don't even care anymore to try and help our own planet.
So I guess there's not much hope for all the people who can't read or think past their town.
It's sad.

by Jyl on Thu Apr 26, 07 6:16pm [+]

Voted : Five hundred years at least
STAR TREK
Patterns of Force

KIRK: "Unbelievable. Do you recognize those uniforms?"

SPOCK: "Early 21st century Earth. The nation-state called Bush America."

by elvislennon on Fri Apr 27, 07 9:30am [+]

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