Potentially Habitable Planet Found

also... silicon based life is a hypothetical possibility. though one of the reasons carbon is found in life might be its reactability.

Bush: Let's roll!

Munz, why that didn't get more votes is beyond me. Even outside the context of (galactic warming?) the idea of Bush saying "let's roll" is hilarious.

s-s It gives me a hilarious visual of Bush in a space suit.

Glinda, I smell a box office smash...

Thanks stolte-sawa. It's funny, Glinda because I actually did picture him in a space suit with one of those bubble helmets.

Do you think Bush would wear a ten-gallon helmet into space?

Outpost was rad, Master of Orion was better. :)

spicedweasle errors are when you try and post, and its already posted or (double posting).

Yea, but its happening even when you first post. I've confirmed its happening to others as well.

yes - its the bug of the evening.

HAHA LOL... nice
pure poetry

Nah, that's an acceptable range. I live in Wisconsin, where our winters get down in the -20s (Fahrenheit) on occasion, and summers can get up to 105. So an average temperature could fall somewhere in there and still be perfectly habitable.

As long as it doesn't do that on some sort of... daily interval, it should be fine.

Yeah, Glinda, 34° is just above freezing (think 1°), and 104 is probably a hot day in Vegas (think 40°). So, we're somewhere between Iqaluit and the Sahara.

Oh well then - we get all those temps during a year in Toronto.

Good lord. It was below freezing and snowing here in Chicago early last week, and 84 by Sunday. And now it's 40 degrees and raining. I find that kind of range completely believable.

Luciferian.

hopefully, if there is something like human life there, they believe in themselves. it would be awfully awkward if they didnt.

Here, here! I'm ain't goin' nowhere without the 'tubes.

They don't have alcohol and cigarettes... or at least the fixins' for those 2 items. I'll stay here.

By God I may be the only one to stay here, but at least I'll be drunk!

-Dave

I must amend my previous statement. If they have internet access, booze and cigarettes--in UNLIMITED SUPPLY--I will go.

Otherwise, I'll stay here with Dave. It'll be fun. We'll have our run of the world.

Depends on a a number of factors, I think. How similar would our anatomies be? We can't catch anything from plants, and I imagine that they will be at least as different from us as plants are. Probably more so. Unless there is only one way that life can progress, in which case the disease of the invaders will probably be more virulent, unless the only life is a kind of disease itself than lays dormant until we get there.

It doesn't even have to be a disease though. It could be some innocuous organism that has a deleterious effect on either us or life on the other planet.

this means i have to get on the @!$%#ing stick and write the article i've been meaning to write for a few weeks now, that the next ethical quandary for our age is whether or not we should contact life that we find in a distant galaxy. that we havent been contacted yet means that other life either isnt able or doesnt want to contact us. we'll have to make that call when we get the means. do we let them go or do we take the step and make the one little shout-out that could change their world in ways we might not even be able to understand, particularly if the reason we havent been contacted by other life is because they arent that advanced yet. ooo.

Just watch out for the Andromeda Strain... we'll have to have a Wildfire installation setup somewhere along the way.

when some one eventually gets there...i am assuming we will send guinea pigs first, like monkeys and donkeys. Well, that if we don't completely wipe them out first.

i cant get to india, either, because i cant afford it, but i can talk to people from there.

even if we find a way to send pictures back and forth, that would be priceless.

I don't understand the point of this discovery if we can never possibly get there.

The point is that someday we might be able to get there.

I just think we should focus our attention on more immediate matters, like the here and now and the planet we live on.

and you don't think maybe it's a good idea to plan ahead, maybe look for options for the future? I just think looking at it that way is more than a little short-sighted. We have to look to the future to survive.

we'd know more about the planet if nasa's funding hadnt been so severely cut in recent years. there is a space-based telescope in development for just this situation, but it's moving slowly because of $$$.

i guess our money is better spent at immediate matters like keeping private contractors in iraq.

or blowing up mountains in Afganistan

*pinkie finger to corner of mouth*

Dude. We could be like that nutcase that's selling the moon!

Fundraiser for newsvine! Sell new planets!

-Dave

Not much of a nut case... The guy makes money!

Ha! I think someone beat you to it up above ;)

Hey, hey, hey... check #13, I already got dibs.

...Good eye, Viki.

I've got two kids. I am an expert at tracking who's got dibs. Front seat, last cupcake, the list is endless.

I'm in. Can we swing by the bar first?