New Earth-Like Planet Discovered in the Habitable Zone

[Starwars4J]

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I propose we call it Coruscant X-D

[Vader]

Ahhhhh home to the Empire X-D good call SW4J. :-)

Its such a shame that we dont yet have the ability to visit other words :-( oh well i guess we will just have to imagine what its like.

[ApophisV]

Its such a shame that we dont yet have the ability to visit other words :-( oh well i guess we will just have to imagine what its like.

Or we could build a space ship with warp drive! Or use a Stargate! Or maybe Mr. Fantastic could help out! Wait... I should get some fresh air, I seem to become a nerd... :-D

[Vader]

I should get some fresh air, I seem to become a nerd... :-D

And your only just realising this?............. X-D :-P ;-)

[DoubleT]

ahh so they Found my Klingon Homeworld...

[Mr Hobbles]

Its such a shame that we dont yet have the ability to visit other words :-( oh well i guess we will just have to imagine what its like.

I would sell my soul to have an opportunity like this, to visit another world capable of human life. To travel to another world would be awesome.

[ApophisV]

ahh so they Found my Klingon Homeworld...

Pay attention what you are saying, the Cardassians are watching you!!! >:-)

[Wout]

A whole new world with maybe other humans

A whole new market for TLC >:-) :-P

[captaintau]

Ahhhhh home to the Empire X-D good call SW4J. :-)

IIRC when Coruscant was home to the Empire, it was called "Imperial Center". It only became "Cosuscant" again after the death of the Emporer.

[Kikuichimonji]

IIRC when Coruscant was home to the Empire, it was called "Imperial Center". It only became "Cosuscant" again after the death of the Emporer.

Wikipedia agrees with you:

"Under the Empire, Coruscant was renamed Imperial Center and Galactic City was also renamed Imperial City"

And I propose we at least give it a better name then 'Gliese 581 C' :-P

[Capn Frank]

Hopefully it's not the covenant home world. *alien*

If we can see them, maybe they've been looking at us.

Just gotta see who can make warp drives, hyper drives, or slip-space ruptures first.

P

[Brainbox]

Wikipedia agrees with you:

"Under the Empire, Coruscant was renamed Imperial Center and Galactic City was also renamed Imperial City"

As do I.

They could have called it Mondas (Earth's twin planet in Doctor Who, now destroyed), or Rupert (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) but no. We get 'Gliese 581 C.' >:-(. I mean, we've even named planetary satellites/moons better than this! Still, it's better than the large number of planets starting with HD and proceeding to reel off a list of numbers (for example, HD 209458 b).

[Scouty]

Well, we don't know if we are going to even get there in the near future. And by we, I mean live people. Not satelites. Currently, it's impossible to get all the equipment there.

Right now, Russia, China, Japan, India, and the USA are sending satelites and ground base pieces of technology to find pottentialy good spots to host Human life in a base of some kind. I would be interested in living on the moon for a few minutes :-) . Edit: Oh, all satelites are due to leave this year!

Just outside our solar system, though, is still to far. It takes about half a year (I believe) to get to Mars, so, I can imagine, in the next 100 years, a ship will be made to support life for about 2 years of space travel.

This is great news! Thanks alot for the link!!

[captaintau]

They could have called it Mondas (Earth's twin planet in Doctor Who, now destroyed), or Rupert (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) but no. We get 'Gliese 581 C.' >:-( . I mean, we've even named planetary satellites/moons better than this! Still, it's better than the large number of planets starting with HD and proceeding to reel off a list of numbers (for example, HD 209458 b).

It could be worse. I mean "Pluto"? Fancy naming a former-planet-now-large-rock-object-thing after a Disney character's dog?

[Starwars4J]

It could be worse. I mean "Pluto"? Fancy naming a former-planet-now-large-rock-object-thing after a Disney character's dog?

:-D But surely you know that it, like most other planets, was named after the Roman God of the Underworld, which fit Pluto's distant, cold appearance

[Asuka]

:-D But surely you know that it, like most other planets, was named after the Roman God of the Underworld, which fit Pluto's distant, cold appearance

Hands off! And yeah, it

[Brainbox]

Well, we don't know if we are going to even get there in the near future. And by we, I mean live people. Not satelites. Currently, it's impossible to get all the equipment there.

Near future? Not likely. It'd take too long with the technology we have currently.

Right now, Russia, China, Japan, India, and the USA are sending satelites and ground base pieces of technology to find pottentialy good spots to host Human life in a base of some kind. I would be interested in living on the moon for a few minutes . Edit: Oh, all satelites are due to leave this year!

All this stuff about space really interests me, especially the idea about settling on other planets/moons. Of course, I'm less entused by the fact that we'd probably just mess the new one up as well :-D ! Potentially, Luna (the moon) and Mars could both support life as they are the least hostile and are both within easy reach. Neither is too near or far from the Sun, and although we couldn't breathe, we could live in bio-cities and bio-spheres.

Just outside our solar system, though, is still to far. It takes about half a year (I believe) to get to Mars, so, I can imagine, in the next 100 years, a ship will be made to support life for about 2 years of space travel.

It does take about that long to get to Mars, yes. But it'd probably take a lot longer than 2 years to get to the outer Solar System and the exoplanets.

[Scouty]

The far future then! Who knows? That's if we last that long or earth has another one of it's special mass extinctions! The goody with earth is, we are in a good zone, not to far nor short. But in the middle. No doubt that as the sun grows, earth will be come hotter, we'll probably move to mars, which is smaller!, and Mercury and possibly Venus will get eaten up! Poor them!

I suppose it would take more than 2 years, but logically, if we can make a ship that lasts long in space, I think it's going to have at least lots faster speeds than what we have now.

Totally off topic: I hope they do develope an airplane that goes higher up into the atmoshpere, higher above earth, so travel is shorter. I would love to see the day when that comes.

[Starwars4J]

The far future then! Who knows? That's if we last that long or earth has another one of it's special mass extinctions! The goody with earth is, we are in a good zone, not to far nor short. But in the middle. No doubt that as the sun grows, earth will be come hotter, we'll probably move to mars, which is smaller!, and Mercury and possibly Venus will get eaten up! Poor them!

Actually, when the sun turns into a Red Giant, as it burns the last of its hydrogen and moves to primarily helium, it will expand to be the size of mars' orbit. That is, mars will be inside the sun. Likely the close proximity will ignore the gases in Jupiter, which is just a sun that never got started. This won't happen for another 5 billion years. By then either we'll be extinct, or so technologically advanced that we'll be able to prevent the sun from dying. Or we'll remove the sun and replace it with an artificial one.

I suppose it would take more than 2 years, but logically, if we can make a ship that lasts long in space, I think it's going to have at least lots faster speeds than what we have now.

Well, as it's 20 light-years away, that means traveling at the speed of light, it would take one of our ships 20 years to get there. However the best we can currently do is maybe 1% the speed of light. 2000 years. Even the most ambitious near-future propulsion systems only allow for approaching .5c, or half the speed of light, which would still take an entire generation to span the stars. Our only hope for extra-solar colonization would be FTL travel, the only option of which that looks feasible, would be controlled wormholes.

[Scouty]

The last thing to resort to would be bases on a numerous planets. And we slowly progress to the new found planet. Well, that is if the planet wont turn out to be big dissapointment or if it turns into Earth Mark 2.

[Brainbox]

The last thing to resort to would be bases on a numerous planets. And we slowly progress to the new found planet.

Hopskotch!?

[Hobbes]

Our only hope for extra-solar colonization would be FTL travel, the only option of which that looks feasible, would be controlled wormholes.

First we need to prove their existence ;-)

So far all those new theories about space (and time) are just that: theories, "explained" with known and available mathematics and the help of ever new and weirdly named constants that fill the gaps.

To me this sometimes looks like religion worked in the past, just a bit more sophisticated...

It still is all kinda exciting...

[Brainbox]

First we need to prove their existence ;-)

That'd be pretty difficult if the theories about them are true. In this case, we wouldn't be able to get close enough to one without being 'sucked in'. Same with black holes. In fact, who says either actually go anywhere (on the other side). Perhaps they do, perhaps they don't. Black holes are less likely to have something on the other side, seeing as how all forms of matter are sucked in to them and 'crushed.' Thing is though, matter can't be destroyed, so... *wacko*

[Starwars4J]

That'd be pretty difficult if the theories about them are true. In this case, we wouldn't be able to get close enough to one without being 'sucked in'. Same with black holes. In fact, who says either actually go anywhere (on the other side). Perhaps they do, perhaps they don't. Black holes are less likely to have something on the other side, seeing as how all forms of matter are sucked in to them and 'crushed.' Thing is though, matter can't be destroyed, so... *wacko*

Hence my theory of there being a fundamental particle with infinite density that composed the universe prior to the big bang, which could be produced in black holes, or a similar macro-particle. Though of course since we only know of the existence of black holes, and know next to nothing about them (and likely won't for hundreds or thousands of years if we live that long), we can't say anything for sure.

But it's fun to speculate, isn't it? :-)

[Hobbes]

But it's fun to speculate, isn't it? :-)

That's science, isn't it? ;-)