Scientists find most Earth-like planet yet

[AJ]

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/space/04/25/habitable.planet.ap/index.html

Story Highlights

• NEW: Planet could conceivably house life outside our solar system
• NEW: Discovery a "significant step" on way to finding possible life in universe
• NEW: Planet, dubbed 581 c, orbits red dwarf star Gliese 581
• NEW: Newly found planet full of liquid water, scientist believes

 

[mndsm]

Wild. I'm moving! Fuck you earth, im'a go trash a whole new planet!

 

[niterydr]

I love shit like this, great link!

 

[JustROLLIN]

Yeah, I was reading that article today at work. Good stuff! They were saying its 50% larger, wow.

 

[AJ]

This makes people think. What would it take to actually move people from one place to another? Does anyone think it will actually happen? Cause if not, we are wasting a shit load of money looking out that way.

 

[mndsm]

We waste money on dumber stuff. The feasability of moving people that far away isn't possible, at lease not right now. It's so far, that half your crew would die of old age before they got there, and the other half would starve, unless they built some enormous floating space station that could sustain life on its own. And it would need EVERYTHING. Meds, plants, places to make babies (you'd pretty much have to be born in space to survive the jump) and everything else.

 

[Big Nate]

This is what I have to say to that.