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| Habitable planet found 20 lights years away | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: May 18 2011, 03:54 PM (691 Views) | |
| Sarpedon | May 18 2011, 03:54 PM Post #1 |
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European scientists have declared a nearby planet with Earth-like conditions to be habitable. Gliese 581d is thought to have conditions that could support life and may even have liquid water oceans and rainfall, however a carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere means that humans wouldn't be able to survive there unaided. Yet any future space voyagers landing there would find themselves in truly alien surroundings. The sky is likely to be murky red, not blue, gravity is twice that of Earth, doubling the weight of anyone standing on the surface, and the carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere would almost certainly not be breathable by humans. http://bigpondnews.com/articles/OddSpot/2011/05/17/Planet_outside_solar_system_is_habitable_613962.html |
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| Jayfeather | Nov 13 2011, 02:28 AM Post #2 |
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Would be great if we could reach the dang place. But 20 light years is reasonably close in the scale of the universe I suppose |
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| Necronomicon | Sep 30 2012, 12:50 AM Post #3 |
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omar comin' yo
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take a relativistic rocket and itd hardly seem like five years subjectively |
| omar yo. omar comin | |
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