A Habitable Exoplanet?!

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/09/real-habitable-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.

“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?"

Go.

Only if I can drag you with me! :p:

Not a fucking chance, exoplanet, Carl Rove's tea parties, or anywhere else.

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'll go. Will there be more intelligent life? Please?

More?

Urbane Guerrilla;685801 wrote:

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.

Bullitt;685810 wrote:

More?

More intelligent than the life here, not more of us goons. :p:

Shawnee123;685818 wrote:

More intelligent than the life here, not more of us hobo haggisers. :p:

ftfy :guinea:

What is that smilie? It looks like a potato chip!

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

:lol:

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....

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.

xoxoxoBruce;685811 wrote:

The only plus for outer space, is one can not hear bagpipes or bleating.

Nor political ass-hattery.

guinnea pig/hamster potato chip/potato crisp -they all cook up the same

Shawnee123;685876 wrote:

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.

Shawnee123;685876 wrote:

lol

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

An I -talian?;)

does an exoplanet have the lava on the outside and crust on the inside?

like the Double Down?

I'll wait until they find a planet in the habitable zone of a G type sun.

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!

Aliantha;685913 wrote:

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.

pitch black also chronicles of riddick

"Pitch Black" kicks ass.

More discussion, Wiki, Gliese 581 system and 581g in particular: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gliese_581_g