let's go here (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070425/ap_on_sc/habitable_planet)!

sweet its only 20.4 light years away.

Thats only like 6 billion years (with surrent technology) or 200,000,000 generations...lets get started...

Awww lame. I was gonna post this story! Anyways yeah, preety sweet.

Very Kewl!!

Thanx for the story mate :)

sweet its only 20.4 light years away.

Thats only like 6 billion years (with surrent technology) or 200,000,000 generations...lets get started...

I'd rather stay here and wait for Jesus.

sweet its only 20.4 light years away.

Thats only like 6 billion years (with surrent technology) or 200,000,000 generations...lets get started...

the sooner we get started on something that will get us there (http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/content/?cid=4292), the sooner we get there.

I'd rather stay here and wait for Jesus.
not us "literally"....i'm 6'4' and afraid of heights:o

I read this story on tv, this planet is 5 times bigger than Earth.
I wonder if the people who live there would be happy with another coach load of American tourists dropping in.

I read this story on tv, this planet is 5 times bigger than Earth.
I wonder if the people who live there would be happy with another coach load of American tourists dropping in.
i was thinking of send some Japanese....and their cameras :D

May as well, theyve been everwhere else.

we may need to go their and make war for oil soon. Haliburton is already assembling the parts for a rocket ship with an oil well at the tip.

we may need to go their and make war for oil soon. Haliburton is already assembling the parts for a rocket ship with an oil well at the tip.
:lolhit:

I read this story on tv, this planet is 5 times bigger than Earth

The planet is five times HEAVIER than earth, not five times larger, at least that was what the article stated. That planet is one and a half times LARGER than Earth, but not five times heavier.

Just for kicks, I went and dug up the Betty Hill star map that aliens supposedly showed her. No joy, Gliese 581 is NOT on the map, dang.

I will add that the red dwarf star the extrasolar planet orbits could be very conducive to life, they're small and red and cool, but they are very, very stable and they last forever, much longer than our star will, dammit.

It's exciting to start finding new planets that could harbor life, it may be the spur needed to get the space program in high gear, dammit.

http://www.jerrypippin.com/UFO_Files_betty_hill.htm

If the planet is five times heavier than Earth wouldnt that make the gravity so strong, the tallest human would end up 3 inchs tall.

If the planet is five times heavier than Earth wouldnt that make the gravity so strong, the tallest human would end up 3 inchs tall.

5x the pull of gravity would mean a person who weighed 180 (my weight) would feel like they had only 720 lbs on their back. Now tell me what pansy can't carry an extra 720 lbs around. The exercise'd be good for ya.

If the planet is five times heavier than Earth wouldnt that make the gravity so strong, the tallest human would end up 3 inchs tall.
1.6 times the gravity...well within limits of the knees of anyone in decent shape.

yea right

and consider that you'd have a few years to get use to it...on the way out.

Its ok 4 u. 6'4

a 150 pound man would weigh 240...about as much as a linebacker.

Big fat me weighs about 11 stone, so double that, shit.
Not a good place for weight watchers.

154? that's not that bad...unless you need a booster seat for the car.

not double, just 1.6x

Haha, dont let the height fool ya, could do with something tho.
Just after getting in, sitting in that car non stop since 7:30 my ass is wrecked, getting cooked in the process. Could do with some AC.
Or a cold beer.

have you considered inversion boots?

I can reach the pedals dont worry.
Tho seeing we have 3 pedals to deal with, just thinking, my left knee is playing up to,
another cold beer.

I can reach the pedals dont worry.
Tho seeing we have 3 pedals to deal with, just thinking, my left knee is playing up to,
another cold beer.
just be glad the Model T Ford's control arrangement didn't become the standard...3 pedals and four levers, and none of them do what you think they're suppose to.:drive:

the inversion boots would help your back too....

Thanks, but my idea of hanging out is,
down the pub.

Thanks, but my idea of hanging out is,
down the pub.
chicks dig it.

I hope your not hanging chicks up on a friday nite.
If you are PM me I wanna hear all.

no, chicks dig guys that don't whine about long car rides:lolhit:

When your driving in a built up area all day changing gear thousands of times, sitting in jams that crawl along, the sun beating down,
well you know what I mean,
time for another beer.

When your driving in a built up area all day changing gear thousands of times, sitting in jams that crawl along, the sun beating down,
well you know what I mean,
time for another beer.
drive thru Chicago in a semi...double-clutching all day:drive:

No thanx,its bad enough here, tho Dublins the king of worst.

i thought weisswurst was the worst wurst?:@@:

Lets spend billion or so dollars on space travel when our own planet needs to be cleaned up and there are diseases yet to be cured.As well as, starvation and poverty.

Lets spend billion or so dollars on space travel when our own planet needs to be cleaned up and there are diseases yet to be cured.As well as, starvation and poverty.
there's the pioneer spirit! we should never have left Europe until it was perfect!

Lets spend billion or so dollars on space travel when our own planet needs to be cleaned up and there are diseases yet to be cured.As well as, starvation and poverty.
Its not in the interests of Government to feed the poor of the world,not just the US Government all Government,in whats describled as the 'first world'. This tho seems a bad call to me, here in EU so much money is paid to farmers in subsidies NOT to produce food its obscene,we have beef mountains,cheese mountains,you name it,we have mountains of it,this food should be released to poor countrys,tho corruption in areas especially Africa is a major problem,and ofcourse we wouldnt want to upset the price of foodstuffs on world markets.
I think tackleing the issue of poverty could effect Europes problems of illegal Immigration,in a positive way.
As for space travel, the US is years ahead of the rest, we hear talk of Mars and new worlds, but I thin the moon is the next stepping stone to space.

Lets spend billion or so dollars on space travel when our own planet needs to be cleaned up and there are diseases yet to be cured.As well as, starvation and poverty.


Ever hear of the Great Society? A series of programs designed that came about in the 60s to eliminate poverty. Trillions of dollars were spent, more people wound up in poverty, the father of the black family got replaced with the welfare check, we're now stuck with programs like medicare/caid that we've got no idea how to pay for and people are thinking those programs were laid out by God himself right after he spent seven days creating everything.

We'd have been better off spending those zillions on space exploration and new weapons programs.


Dammit.

As for space travel, the US is years ahead of the rest, we hear talk of Mars and new worlds, but I think the moon is the next stepping stone to space.
Here's a few pics I took of the moon tonight. I don't think I'll get clearer ones til I get a new camera, but these turned out pretty good.
I took them thru my telescope.
You can't see as good as I could, but there were many white bursts on the surface and seems like lines that connect them. Maybe someone can explain what they are.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v133/tormented/IMG_0037.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v133/tormented/IMG_0040.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v133/tormented/IMG_0050.jpg

just ridges and craters reflecting more light, either because they're more pronounced. or different composition than the surrounding area.

Ever hear of the Great Society? A series of programs designed that came about in the 60s to eliminate poverty. Trillions of dollars were spent, more people wound up in poverty, the father of the black family got replaced with the welfare check, we're now stuck with programs like medicare/caid that we've got no idea how to pay for and people are thinking those programs were laid out by God himself right after he spent seven days creating everything.

We'd have been better off spending those zillions on space exploration and new weapons programs.


Dammit.
and those zillions put to people to work, developing things that have byproducts that might never have come about otherwise like pens that write upside down and personal computers.

necessity is the mother of invention, but sometimes creating the necessity is necessary.