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Urbane Guerrilla 09-30-2010 01:55 AM
A Habitable Exoplanet?!
 
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/20...ble-exoplanet/

Tidally locked with its primary, Gliese 581, Gliese 581g has a 36-earthday year and three times Earth's mass and is right in the Goldilocks zone.

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“The fact that we found one so close and so early on in the search suggests there’s a lot of these things,” Butler says. Only about 100 other stars are as close to Earth as Gliese 581, and only 9 of them have been closely examined for planets. Odds are good that 10 to 20 percent of stars in the Milky Way have habitable planets . . .
"And have the bright immensities received our risen Lord,
Where lightyears frame the Pleiades and point Orion's sword?"

xoxoxoBruce 09-30-2010 02:03 AM
Go.

Urbane Guerrilla 09-30-2010 02:19 AM
Only if I can drag you with me! :p:

xoxoxoBruce 09-30-2010 02:41 AM
Not a fucking chance, exoplanet, Carl Rove's tea parties, or anywhere else.

Urbane Guerrilla 09-30-2010 10:39 AM
Bruce, your whole life is one big dark stack of never-fun. Makes you tedious. You don't even care to explore outer space; how groundhoggin' is that?

Shawnee123 09-30-2010 10:41 AM
I'll go. Will there be more intelligent life? Please?

Bullitt 09-30-2010 11:16 AM
More?

xoxoxoBruce 09-30-2010 11:23 AM
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Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla (Post 685801)
Bruce, your whole life is one big dark stack of never-fun. Makes you tedious. You don't even care to explore outer space; how groundhoggin' is that?
I haven't come close to finishing inner space, or even started on wet space, so have at it, Buck Rogers.
The only plus for outer space, is one can not hear bagpipes or bleating.

Shawnee123 09-30-2010 11:49 AM
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Originally Posted by Bullitt (Post 685810)
More?
More intelligent than the life here, not more of us goons. :p:

monster 09-30-2010 12:03 PM
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Originally Posted by Shawnee123 (Post 685818)
More intelligent than the life here, not more of us hobo haggisers. :p:
ftfy :guinea:

Shawnee123 09-30-2010 12:05 PM
What is that smilie? It looks like a potato chip!

"I feel so happy right now I could be a potato chip!"

:lol:

monster 09-30-2010 03:21 PM
it says it's a hamster. I thought it looked like intelligent extra-terrestrial haggis. But it could be a potato chip. They're pretty smart, you know....

Shawnee123 09-30-2010 03:33 PM
lol

It says "guinea" so I guess it's a guinea pig?

Speaking of potato chips that look like things, I found a rock the other day that looks like baby Jebus. Swaddled. I'm thinking of selling it on e-bay.

That will fund my trip to Gliese 581.

Gravdigr 09-30-2010 04:15 PM
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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce (Post 685811)
The only plus for outer space, is one can not hear bagpipes or bleating.
Nor political ass-hattery.

monster 09-30-2010 04:36 PM
guinnea pig/hamster potato chip/potato crisp -they all cook up the same
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Originally Posted by Shawnee123 (Post 685876)
lol

It says "guinea" so I guess it's a guinea pig?

Speaking of potato chips that look like things, I found a rock the other day that looks like baby Jebus. Swaddled. I'm thinking of selling it on e-bay.

That will fund my trip to Gliese 581.

Griff 09-30-2010 04:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Shawnee123 (Post 685876)
lol

It says "guinea" so I guess it's a guinea pig?
An I -talian?;)

Cloud 09-30-2010 07:25 PM
does an exoplanet have the lava on the outside and crust on the inside?

like the Double Down?

spudcon 09-30-2010 10:31 PM
I'll wait until they find a planet in the habitable zone of a G type sun.

Aliantha 09-30-2010 11:01 PM
Apparently this planet is really hot on one side, and really cold on the other, leaving a ring around the middle that they think can sustain life.

I can picture it being inhabited by humans and the prisons being either in the really hot or really cold places. That'd teach those law breakers to break the law!

classicman 10-01-2010 09:37 AM
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Originally Posted by Aliantha (Post 685913)
I can picture it being inhabited by humans and the prisons being either in the really hot or really cold places. That'd teach those law breakers to break the law!

Ali - That sounds similar to a movie I saw, but can't think of the name... I think Vin Diesel was in it.

BigV 10-01-2010 01:21 PM
pitch black also chronicles of riddick

Gravdigr 10-02-2010 05:46 PM
"Pitch Black" kicks ass.

Urbane Guerrilla 10-07-2010 12:18 AM
More discussion, Wiki, Gliese 581 system and 581g in particular: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gliese_581_g


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