First Earth-sized exoplanet found

[Nephew Twiddleton]

That's right folks, a terrestrial exoplanet has been found. It is located in the habitable zone around Gliese 581 (which has 6 planets discovered so far), and is 20 ly away.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11444022

[Doktor Howl]

That's right folks, a terrestrial exoplanet has been found. It is located in the habitable zone around Gliese 581 (which has 6 planets discovered so far), and is 20 ly away.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11444022

Great.  Let's go there and get all Cortez on the bastards.

[Freeky]

This is amazing!  

[Doktor Howl]

OHAI, ALIENS!  WE COME IN PEACE!
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[Nephew Twiddleton]

Would you like some blankets?

[Freeky]

OHAI, ALIENS!  WE COME IN PEACE!
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DO YOU GUISE WANT TO MAKE US YOUR GODZ?

[Doktor Howl]

Would you like some blankets?

We have this lovely "fire water".

Of course, it's equally likely that they'll do it to us.  We'd have no way of knowing if a ship was on its way here until they started to slow down.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

This is amazing!  

I'm waiting for them to find out what the atmosphere is like. That's an obstacle for Earth-like life to be present, and not just for the weather problems they mention.

Since it doesn't rotate, it likely does not have a very strong magnetosphere to protect it from Gliese's radiation.

Interesting destination for future colonization prospects though, once we figure out to go a little bit faster.

[Freeky]

Would you like some blankets?

We have this lovely "fire water".

Of course, it's equally likely that they'll do it to us.  We'd have no way of knowing if a ship was on its way here until they started to slow down.

At first I thought this was the coolest thing ever, and it could be like Star Trek.

And then I realized. There are humans on this planet. And then I had a sad.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Would you like some blankets?

We have this lovely "fire water".

Of course, it's equally likely that they'll do it to us.  We'd have no way of knowing if a ship was on its way here until they started to slow down.

True, and we gave them a heads up that we're here- several months ago a bunch of people sent a variety of messages to another one of the planets in that system, since it was close to Earth sized (in actuality it is probably a gas giant that had most of its atmosphere stripped off).

I remember one of the messages too.

It said something like, "Hello Mr. Alien, please don't come and eat us."

Now, I don't know about aliens, but a human would do the complete opposite of that.

[Doktor Howl]

This is amazing!  

I'm waiting for them to find out what the atmosphere is like. That's an obstacle for Earth-like life to be present, and not just for the weather problems they mention.

Since it doesn't rotate, it likely does not have a very strong magnetosphere to protect it from Gliese's radiation.

Interesting destination for future colonization prospects though, once we figure out to go a little bit faster.

We won't be leaving Earth anytime soon, if ever.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Also, I finally found a science topic I could initiate a thread about  

Twid,
-Likes space and shit, as long as no extensive math is involved

[Doktor Howl]

Would you like some blankets?

We have this lovely "fire water".

Of course, it's equally likely that they'll do it to us.  We'd have no way of knowing if a ship was on its way here until they started to slow down.

At first I thought this was the coolest thing ever, and it could be like Star Trek.

And then I realized. There are humans on this planet. And then I had a sad.

There is no reason to believe that aliens will be any more advanced or civilized than we are.

After all, keep Roswell in mind.  They build the kind of ships that crash.  We can do THAT.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

This is amazing!  

I'm waiting for them to find out what the atmosphere is like. That's an obstacle for Earth-like life to be present, and not just for the weather problems they mention.

Since it doesn't rotate, it likely does not have a very strong magnetosphere to protect it from Gliese's radiation.

Interesting destination for future colonization prospects though, once we figure out to go a little bit faster.

We won't be leaving Earth anytime soon, if ever.

True, but if we can get through the next couple of hundred years and still have the capability to leave the planet, it would be a good time to start working on being able to do so.

I know it won't be in my lifetime one way or the other, but I like the idea of it eventually happening.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Would you like some blankets?

We have this lovely "fire water".

Of course, it's equally likely that they'll do it to us.  We'd have no way of knowing if a ship was on its way here until they started to slow down.

At first I thought this was the coolest thing ever, and it could be like Star Trek.

And then I realized. There are humans on this planet. And then I had a sad.

There is no reason to believe that aliens will be any more advanced or civilized than we are.

After all, keep Roswell in mind.  They build the kind of ships that crash.  We can do THAT.

That only happened because the helmsman was their equivalent of Welsh.