We found a new planet we can live on!

[Riot]

Official link: http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2011/dec/HQ_11-408_Kepler_Habitable_Planet.html

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[Mysteroo]

That's pretty much what I said earlier.

Oh ok, I didn't feel like reading the last 3 pages of posts.
If I can think of this and easily find that life can't happen there, then why is NASA going around telling everybody that life is confirmed possible on other planets? That does not seem too honest :/

[M]

Sending people there:

Cryogenics - Freezing people until they get there then thawing them out: First of all, we haven't got the 'thawing them out' bit down-pat without them dying anyway. But even if we did get them there and thaw them out, as said, the gravitational field would be much stronger there, and it'd be quite troublesome at first thus making it quite possible we'd be wiped out before getting really established.

Breeding - A child raised in zero gravity would not be very strong, right? What about a few million years worth of evolution for zero gravity?

[asablief]

you can't get a boner in 0 gravity anyway

[Mysteroo]

Sending people there:

Cryogenics - Freezing people until they get there then thawing them out: First of all, we haven't got the 'thawing them out' bit down-pat without them dying anyway. But even if we did get them there and thaw them out, as said, the gravitational field would be much stronger there, and it'd be quite troublesome at first thus making it quite possible we'd be wiped out before getting really established.

Breeding - A child raised in zero gravity would not be very strong, right? What about a few million years worth of evolution for zero gravity?

evolution is just a theory, believed by many to be completely false. And with the gravity, as you mentioned, life may not even be possible there

[Grodus]

But we recently established that particles can go faster than the speed of light and not kill the universe so...

Nope.

It's physically impossible to reach the speed of light, as time, space, and diamiter (X-Y-Z of the universe)
stop it, And if you think this is wrong.. your going against something steven hawkings said..

He also said that wormholes already exist.. They are smaller then electrons, though. and cant yet be opened.

[LordCutlerBeckett]

Nope.

It's physically impossible to reach the speed of light, as time, space, and diamiter (X-Y-Z of the universe)
stop it, And if you think this is wrong.. your going against something steven hawkings said..

He also said that wormholes already exist.. They are smaller then electrons, though. and cant yet be opened.

"Tachyons" for your speed of light explanation. Look it up.

For us altogether it's impossible to reach this speed though, yes.

[Lørd Tøny]

What if Kepler is filled with monsters?

[Jacob/Lee]

Nope.

It's physically impossible to reach the speed of light, as time, space, and diamiter (X-Y-Z of the universe)
stop it, And if you think this is wrong.. your going against something steven hawkings said..

He also said that wormholes already exist.. They are smaller then electrons, though. and cant yet be opened.

Remember when we thought the world is flat? The Earth was at the center of the universe? We see those views as just absurd now, but back then they thought it was fact. One day, we'll look back and realize how silly it was thinking nothing can go faster than light.

[asablief]

What if Kepler is filled with monsters?

That'd be pretty loving awesome

[LordCutlerBeckett]

That'd be pretty loving awesome

alieons

[ShadowsfeaR]

We'll be more evolved than you by then.

We'll keep you in a zoo instead of glorious space journeys.

[asablief]

I'd love to go there and do a documentary on them or something, watch them in their natural habitat.

[Nom|Aplem|Nom]

That is a nice error encountered you have there.

[Mysteroo]

I don't think this is possible. If it's 2.4x bigger then earth, it's gravity will also be much bigger. Making life much more difficult to exist right?