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NASA discovers Earth like Planet - Kepler-22B
m3nt4l
Brisbane, Queensland
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-12-06/earth-twin-planet-discovered/3714358

The planet, Kepler 22-b, lies about 600 light years away, about two-and-a-half times the size of Earth, with a temperature of about 22 degrees Celsius, allowing liquid water to exist on the surface. Its year is about 290 days long.


Among the 2326 candidate planets found by the Kepler team, 10 are roughly Earth-size and reside in their host stars' habitable zones.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16040655

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08:07pm 06/12/11 Permalink
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Superform
Netherlands
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i'll start packing.. when are we off?
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08:09pm 06/12/11 Permalink
m3nt4l
Brisbane, Queensland
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Would be nice to have our eggs in multiple baskets, incase someone drops a basket.
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08:10pm 06/12/11 Permalink
do0b
Brisbane, Queensland
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50 million years away with current tech? Dayum.
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08:17pm 06/12/11 Permalink
Scooter
Brisbane, Queensland
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If we left now it would only take 1.5~2 Million Generations to get there!

In other Space related News, the Voyager space craft is interesting as always;
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2011/12/voyager-discovers-cosmic-purgatory/
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08:33pm 06/12/11 Permalink
gamer
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If we could beam a team of early settlers to that planet right now... i would be on the first group!
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Nerfy
Brisbane, Queensland
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If we could beam a team of early settlers to that planet right now... i would be on the first group!

I'd presume that you'd probably have better luck surviving in the most barren location of Earth than another planet without any existing earth-life at all.
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08:40pm 06/12/11 Permalink
Eorl
Brisbane, Queensland
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What I can see happening if we ever did get to that planet, would be a massive spaceship that is practically a Noah's Ark of creatures, plants and technology. Would be pretty cool to see the growth of human on a new planet. I wonder if we would make the same mistakes?
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08:50pm 06/12/11 Permalink
Mephz
Brisbane, Queensland
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Hahahaha just think. If you sent out a spaceship as a generation ship to another planet, by the time they get there. Technology has probably improved back on earth and gotten their before them.
Generation ship would be majorly pissed!
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08:54pm 06/12/11 Permalink
casa
Brisbane, Queensland
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They could pick em up on the way though!
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09:04pm 06/12/11 Permalink
Pinky
Melbourne, Victoria
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If we could beam a team of early settlers to that planet right now... i would be on the first group!

Make sure to take your knife
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09:29pm 06/12/11 Permalink
kr0wb4r
Brisbane, Queensland
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They could pick em up on the way though!


Unlikely. The energy required to slow down, grab 'em, and speed up again would make it pretty much unfeasible.

I reckon they'd just lay out the welcome mat for when they finally arrive.
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09:33pm 06/12/11 Permalink
Tollaz0r!
Brisbane, Queensland
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There is a book based on that exact senario, can't rememebr what it is called.

Also, Voyger 1 is so awesome, launched in the 70's and still going strong.
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09:47pm 06/12/11 Permalink
Nerfy
Brisbane, Queensland
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What I can see happening if we ever did get to that planet, would be a massive spaceship that is practically a Noah's Ark of creatures, plants and technology. Would be pretty cool to see the growth of human on a new planet. I wonder if we would make the same mistakes?

From what I understand, it's unlikely that we'd get very far with our current biology, it's just not flexible enough to survive well outside of pretty much anywhere except the surface level of the Earth. The radiation, lack of gravity, etc, would not be manageable.

Seemingly far more likely is that we will have to first remake ourselves (or our descendants, whether or not they must come from a human womb is an interesting consideration to ponder).

I sometimes wonder if this is where intelligent species die. Dominated quickly by vastly more capable offshoots, perhaps even often completely replaced, which self-improve rapidly until becoming comparatively rational (as how could you ever choose to be more irrational?), at which point, I wonder, would a mind do anything without a motivation drawn from a soup of irrational chemical emotions such as fear, hunger, lust, and wonder? The universe may only be capable of creating and harbouring species up to just above our level of intelligence, beyond which they perhaps nearly always die off as part of an entirely normal cycle. /sleepy brain pondering things because it irrationally wants to
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m3nt4l
Brisbane, Queensland
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You guys should watch Pandorum, a little slow, but really well done, an ark on it's way to a second Earth.

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Dazhel
Gold Coast, Queensland
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50 million years, huh?
That manned mission to Mars isn't looking so tough now is it?
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Superform
Netherlands
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dont these scientists keep up with modern tech.. in Eve you can jump 6.5 light years SO JUST GET SOMEONE TO LIGHT A CYNO
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m3nt4l
Brisbane, Queensland
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The Frontier Theory:

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11:03pm 06/12/11 Permalink
icewyrm
Brisbane, Queensland
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There was an anime made with that exact storyline mephz... well, it was probably based on a book (someone may have already mentioned the book I guess).

Anime was called space fantasia, seems to be on youtube.. :


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ravn0s
Brisbane, Queensland
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we need to whip us up some wormhole drives.
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11:39pm 06/12/11 Permalink
Pinky
Melbourne, Victoria
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Also, Voyger 1 is so awesome, launched in the 70's and still going strong.

Yep, this little bugger is caning along and still making useful measurements - launched 1977 and now 18bil km away right on the very fringe of our solar system and about to enter the 'space' between the stars. Amazingly successful experiment.

Another ripper out there is the one near Pluto at the moment. Forget it's name.
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12:48am 07/12/11 Permalink
teq
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shotgun
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Trauma
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Thread title instantly reminded me of this...



Great movie btw.
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03:04am 07/12/11 Permalink
Rawprawn
Brisbane, Queensland
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Make sure to take your knife


Let's make sure these aliens know we mean business. Swiss army knife, length of string and a paper clip for everyone frozen in stasis.
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ravn0s
Brisbane, Queensland
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Yep, this little bugger is caning along and still making useful measurements - launched 1977 and now 18bil km away right on the very fringe of our solar system and about to enter the 'space' between the stars. Amazingly successful experiment.


they've dubbed the area it's in atm, cosmic purgatory. they've called it that because voyager's instruments haven't detected any solar wind going in any direction, making it a fairly calm area of space.

"the wind of charged particles streaming out from our sun has calmed, our solar system’s magnetic field has piled up, and higher-energy particles from inside our solar system appear to be leaking out into interstellar space.”


very cool.
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09:20am 07/12/11 Permalink
Nitro
Gold Coast, Queensland
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Not that far just take the omega 4 relay
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demon
Brisbane, Queensland
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What I can see happening if we ever did get to that planet, would be a massive spaceship that is practically a Noah's Ark of creatures, plants and technology. Would be pretty cool to see the growth of human on a new planet. I wonder if we would make the same mistakes?

trying to relocate our biology to an alien environment sounds like a classic human mistake. ;)
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arc
Brisbane, Queensland
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haha demon!

Man, can't wait for Prometheus. Shit is gonna be off the hook.
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Python
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We are the aliens that everyone wants aliens to be!
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