We found a new planet we can live on!

[David819]

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

fixed yahoo link in origbrown town post.

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[Night Fox]

if it's 2.4x the size of Earth we will not be able to live on it
what I'm interested in is seeing what does live on it

[pocketrocket300]

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

"As you can see, the Gorbldgrunk is very muscular, and takes down its prey by brute force alone..."

[Mysteroo]

I don't know if anything can live on it, let alone does live on it. With the strongest telescope in the world I highly doubt we can see what is on the surface of a planet in another solar system. So I don't think there's any way to prove that there's life on the planet at the moment. Unless we sent a satellite or something to go on a few century long trip.  

[David819]

if it's 2.4x the size of Earth we will not be able to live on it
what I'm interested in is seeing what does live on it

Thats what i said!

[asablief]

if it's 2.4x the size of Earth we will not be able to live on it
what I'm interested in is seeing what does live on it

it just means you're going to be x2.4 fatter

[Lørd Tøny]

a few century long trip.  

A few? Try 22 million years.

[Kearn]

i like how everyone ignores the fact that we aren't sure if it's liquid solid or gas

[pocketrocket300]

A few? Try 22 million years.

22,000,000.
That's alot of zeros.

[Doomonkey]

Jupiter has gravity 2.53x that of Earth and it has 371 times the mass and 1,321 times the volume.

A planet 2.4 times the volume of the Earth will have barely more gravity.

[asablief]

Jupiter has gravity 2.53x that of Earth and it has 371 times the mass and 1,321 times the volume.

A planet 2.4 times the volume of the Earth will have barely more gravity.

stuff i forgot it wasn't as simple as it sounds

[Mysteroo]

it just means you're going to be x2.4 fatter

no.. It means the mass you do have will be pulled down by gravity 2.4 times as much. Which could make any kind of movement 2.4x as hard, or maybe even impossible. But I don't know, and I don't think anybody really can tell unless they send something to another planet "so and so" times bigger then earth, and test the difference between it's presence on earth and there.

A few? Try 22 million years.

lol, I didn't check to see how far away it was. So I didn't bother to see how long it'd take

i like how everyone ignores the fact that we aren't sure if it's liquid solid or gas

we don't even know that and yet NASA's claiming life is there? :/ that kinda bothers me...

GAH everytime I try to post someone posts something...

Jupiter has gravity 2.53x that of Earth and it has 371 times the mass and 1,321 times the volume.

A planet 2.4 times the volume of the Earth will have barely more gravity.

How/when did we find that out? Since we can't land on a gas planet it seems like it'd be pretty hard to test gravity

[asablief]

Since we can't land on a gas planet it seems like it'd be pretty hard to test gravity

We can't land on mars but we know it's gravity.

[Doomonkey]

How/when did we find that out? Since we can't land on a gas planet it seems like it'd be pretty hard to test gravity

We have these magical powers of mathematics.

[pocketrocket300]

Jupiter has gravity 2.53x that of Earth and it has 371 times the mass and 1,321 times the volume.

A planet 2.4 times the volume of the Earth will have barely more gravity.

Oh wait that's right gravity is the weakest of the basic forces.
D'oh.
Besides we can survive tremendous amounts of g-force.  Remember that most fighter jets exceed high g's during combat all the time.