New earth 20 light years away

[raroZ28]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...n_page_id=1965

[Joe 1320]

Provided that society maintains itself and doesn't self destruct, it would be interest to be around a couple hundered years from now when the possibility of getting off this big rock could be a reality.

[Christopherrr]

Interesting article...can't help but to think about the possiblities sometimes.

Since the star 581 is a red dwarf...that means it had taken life as a hot burning star like ours. If I remember correctly, before turning into a red dwarf, a star basically explodes into ifself and engulfs it's system of palents? And woudn't that mean if a lifeforms had "billions of years to evolve"...they'd be dead anyways?

Maybe I dreamt everything...I have a fever too by the way.

[Joshu]

Interesting article...can't help but to think about the possiblities sometimes.

Since the star 581 is a red dwarf...that means it had taken life as a hot burning star like ours. If I remember correctly, before turning into a red dwarf, a star basically explodes into ifself and engulfs it's system of palents? And woudn't that mean if a lifeforms had "billions of years to evolve"...they'd be dead anyways?

Maybe I dreamt everything...I have a fever too by the way.

No you are right!
About the lifeform thing i don't know but the star becomes a huge supernova, then collapses inward on itself.

I have a fever of 102 by the way

[Joe 1320]

No you are right!
About the lifeform thing i don't know but the star becomes a huge supernova, then collapses inward on itself.

Correct. Ya never know...... perhap a civilization exist4ed millions of years ago. ya know.......

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away.




They could be out there somewhere, perhaps abandoning their planet as the impending doom approached. Interesting thoughts.

[Steel2686]

No you are right!
About the lifeform thing i don't know but the star becomes a huge supernova, then collapses inward on itself.

I have a fever of 102 by the way

I understand the same thing.

I have a fever too, but it's for the flavor of a pringles.

[Dave M]

I saw that news, very exciting.

If I understand things correctly, and I might not, there could still be life/civilization there. A star such as ours exhausts it's fuel and becomes a red dwarf. Only as it collapses further does it go supernova an incinerate everything around it. Therefore a civilization could still exist because the star has yet to go supernova. It wold be a doomed civilization, but it would likely still be there.

For a good article on the subject, tr this: http://www.astronomy.com/asy/default.aspx?c=a&id=5471

[sneitzel]

I have always thought it is very arrogant to think that as large as the KNOWN universe is (who knows about the unknown part...) we are the only form of intelligent life out there. I sincerely hope to see that proved wrong in my lifetime.

[raroZ28]

i got a feva, and the only prescription, is mo' cowbell.

i doubt there is any life there. it would take 20 years to get anything out that way to even check it out. And 20 years to get it back. We'll most likely be dead before anybody comes close to that place.

[Joe 1320]

i got a feva, and the only prescription, is mo' cowbell.

i doubt there is any life there. it would take 20 years to get anything out that way to even check it out. And 20 years to get it back. We'll most likely be dead before anybody comes close to that place.

More time than that mi amigo. That's 20 Light years, the distance that that light travels in a year, (at the speed of 186,000 miles per second.) unfortunately, since we don't have the technology to travel that fast it would take 75 years to get there and 75 years to get back. The most likely scenerio would be to send something up in a few years and by the time it got half way, we would have launched something else that would likely have caught up and passed the original probe.

[bru333]

If I understand things correctly, and I might not, there could still be life/civilization there. A star such as ours exhausts it's fuel and becomes a red dwarf. Only as it collapses further does it go supernova an incinerate everything around it.

Ahh....no.... Our sun will become a red giant (which is when the Earth gets incinerated), then a white dwarf. It doesn't have enough mass to go nova.



A red dwarf star is smaller than our sun. Gilese 581 never had enough mass to be a yellow star like our sun.

Here's the other thing I was looking for. http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/space/0....ap/index.html

gravity there would be 1.6 times as strong as Earth's.

I'd weigh 352 pounds there. Nooooo thank you!

[Nightrage]

Here's the other thing I was looking for. http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/space/0....ap/index.html I'd weigh 352 pounds there. Nooooo thank you!

I guess I'd better start doing more squats

[DJ Taso]

Provided that society maintains itself and doesn't self destruct, it would be interest to be around a couple hundered years from now when the possibility of getting off this big rock could be a reality.

Won't be long 'til we mess that one up too...

[Dave M]

Ahh....no.... Our sun will become a red giant (which is when the Earth gets incinerated), then a white dwarf. It doesn't have enough mass to go nova.



A red dwarf star is smaller than our sun. Gilese 581 never had enough mass to be a yellow star like our sun.

Here's the other thing I was looking for. http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/space/0....ap/index.html I'd weigh 352 pounds there. Nooooo thank you!

I knew I probably had it wrong, but my main point was that this star had not gone nova and therefore was theoretically capable of sustaining life.

[Dave Vince]

Star Trek

Perhaps if we last long enough as a species we may venture out to other star systems. To leave our galaxy is a different question even at light speed the distance is mind boggling. Who knows what the future holds our progress over the last 150 years has been incredible.