Well, it's FINALLY happened.
Scientists today announce Earth-like planet discovered 20.5 light years away.
Planet X orbits Gliese 581, a red star relatively close to us. And the planet may be the first truly Earth-like planet to have been found outside our Solar System.
And get this: It may have a relatively similar climate, and even be covered by water.
Could there be life? Or potential for colonisation?
One thing's for sure: were I to live long enough for homo sapiens to travel there, I could not go. It's 1.5 times the Earth's diameter, and has a mass 5 times greater. The gravity would be double... and I would weigh almost 800 pounds! A human body couldn't handle that.
But for life that evolved there, it would be a completely different story.
I sure hope this holds up under scientific scrutiny. Another Earthlike planet. Incredible.
Scientists today announce Earth-like planet discovered 20.5 light years away.
Planet X orbits Gliese 581, a red star relatively close to us. And the planet may be the first truly Earth-like planet to have been found outside our Solar System.
And get this: It may have a relatively similar climate, and even be covered by water.
Could there be life? Or potential for colonisation?
One thing's for sure: were I to live long enough for homo sapiens to travel there, I could not go. It's 1.5 times the Earth's diameter, and has a mass 5 times greater. The gravity would be double... and I would weigh almost 800 pounds! A human body couldn't handle that.
But for life that evolved there, it would be a completely different story.
I sure hope this holds up under scientific scrutiny. Another Earthlike planet. Incredible.
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If there's life there... yay!
If there's not life there, oh well... yay!
I think homo sapiens has some of its best days ahead of it, if we can just outgrow this adolescent self-destructiveness.
To colonise other worlds... Gene Roddenberry would have loved this.
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If.
^_^
Science certainly has some great days ahead of itself. I hope the rest of us do too! :DD
*dances in excitement!!!*
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Ooooo the excitement!
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