So NASA apparently finds a new habitable planet...

[Hershey]

http://news.yahoo.com/nasa-telescope-confirms-alien-planet-habitable-zone-162005358.html
They called the planet "Kepler-22b".


Unrelated fun fact: this is the second thread I have ever posted.

Fun fact 2:

Thought you guys might find this interesting as well:
Didn't want to make another thread.

http://www.mnn.com/green-tech/resea...scientist-creates-lifelike-cells-out-of-metal

 

[Penguino138]

Get ready for this thread to turn into an alien topic, or possibly religion. Or both....

 

[emolover]

I wish the article would have when into some detail about what elements are in the atmosphere. Just because it's in the habitable zone, does not mean its habitable. For all we know it could a full water planet or something else that we currently could not habit even if it was close.

Hope this won't be like gliese 581g was.

Unrelated fun fact: this is the second thread I have ever posted.

I feel like I feel like Wolmak now.

 

[PandaCuber]

Get ready for this thread to turn into an alien topic, or possibly religion. Or both....

What type of religion do aliens have????

 

[JyH]

Interesting. I find this stuff awesome.

Unrelated fun fact: this is the second thread I have ever posted.

Didn't you have some sort of "Oh wow, today was a famous rapper's birthday" thread that got deleted?

I feel like I feel like Wolmak now.

Who?

 

[Godmil]

600 light-years? that's dissapointingly far away.

 

[AgentKuo]

Old News makes me snooze.

 

[Muesli]

In the habitable zone, not habitable.

 

[Robocopter87]

Very Exciting. Oddly coincidental, I was discussing with my mother today about how there was so much space in the universe and that there just had to be something inhabiting that ridiculous amount of space or at least something habitable. Also the insignificance of Human Life on the TimeLine of Earths Age. Makes me feel like a speck. And being a speck must suck.

Anywho, very cool, nice temperature average. And maybe one day we could reach that far away.

 

[chrissyD]

And maybe one day we could reach that far away.

Never gonna happen...

 

[Muesli]

Never gonna happen...

y so naysaying?

 

[chrissyD]

y so naysaying?

Well I don't fancy making a rocket that can travel at light speed for 600 years D:

 

[Owen]

Well I don't fancy making a rocket that can travel at light speed for 600 years D:

You could use hyper warps.

 

[Phlippieskezer]

Never gonna happen...

Or, at least, really, really, really unlikely to happen within our lifetimes.

 

[emolover]

Never gonna happen...

Never say never! It won't happen in our lifetimes but if we established a base on the moon, then Mars, then some of the Jupiter and Saturn moons that will be a huge milestone. There is the technology to get to Mars in 40 day approximately so it's a start at least.

 

[aronpm]

Well I don't fancy making a rocket that can travel at light speed for 600 years D:

We just need to wait for Zefram Cochrane to invent warp drive in 2063.

 

[chrissyD]

Kepler 22b: 3,527,175,224,066,450 miles

I don't think so... Plus a return ticket would be pricey..

 

[Robocopter87]

Now Now, don't get me wrong, definitely not in our lifetime. But eventually we might, and technology is improving at an astounding rate, and science at its side.

Or like emolover said, slowly traveling cross universe. However if we could establish bases on Jupiter moons, then there really isn't point in moving to a habitable planet when we have the technology to survive on Jupiters moons.

 

[emolover]

Who's to say we won't discover a fuel source that is limitlessly efficient and goes 99.99 the speed of light?

I know that far off time wise and hundreds of light years away, but if you a bubble world that is big enough to have agriculture and all things needed for life. It would require many generations and we would not(likely) ever see them again but it is coded into are DNA to expand are species to ensure are survival.

Of course the bubble world would be at least the size of Rhode Island and this would be hundreds if not thousands of years in the future. Nothing impossible, it will just take a hell of a long time.

Edit:

Or like emolover said, slowly traveling cross universe. However if we could establish bases on Jupiter moons, then there really isn't point in moving to a habitable planet when we have the technology to survive on Jupiters moons.

There is reason, because the sun will enter into its massive red star stage in 4? billion years. Something closer in the future would a gamma ray burst that could fry all of us.

 

[chrissyD]

I don't think the earth has enough resources to even travel 1 light year never mind 600. I don't think humans will be around long enough to find a way of doing it.

travelling to the moons of Jupiter is probably possible though it would be a waste of resources.