Another Earth!!!!

Yeah, they ought to name it something cool. I mean...if something could be so close to Earth in terms of temperature and other conditions (therefore being important) then shouldn't it deserve a halfway-decent name?

Yeesh. Nice find...it'll certainly give us something to think about.

 

You kinda have to be a Battlestar Galactica fan to understand my last post... xD

 

How bout........Earthina? the girl version if by any chance if Earth sounds like male

 

Guys...shut up about names...

I'm not to amazed by this. There's so many ****ing planets around in our universe, it had to happen eventually. Now the only thing to worry about is getting their, should our own planet die. We should quit worrying about a 2nd Earth for now and concentrate on space travel and even living in space. We'd have to be able to stay there for long periods of time, despite hunger, hydration, and muscle disintingration, and we would even have to learn how to maybe go through multiple generations of people to get to the planet.

I'm cool with there being another Earth, yay, but how the hell are we getting there?

 

This could be a possibility.

I wouldn't rely on it too much, but it seems rather possible it's inhabitable.

I'd love to see a second Earth in my life time, or 581 c. :P

Many ways. We could use a solar craft that uses solar rays as a boost. From there, we could use some engine gas to speed up. We'd easily get there in at least 3 or 4 life times.

Hell, it's only like traveling 15 times around Jupiter. [/sarcasm]

 

For the means of transportation has anyone heard of an antimatter engine? They’re still tweaking it to reduce gamma-rays that would kill everyone on board, but once that done you've got no idea what this thing can do. Perfect matter to energy conversion, the e=mc^2 thing where a mere paperclip has the energy of an atomic-bomb!

 

If we tried to go there, I really wouldn't be surprised if we used ion-propulsion. It's excellent for travelling long distances at high speeds, too, which is great...thank God for NASA, right?

 

We've never even attempted something THIS distant before. It'll be at least a decade or 2 before we can even consider sending a PROBE to 581 C.

 

why do you think a probe would be that long? i would give a probe 5 years as my bet. sending people is an entirely different story, i would give that a few decades more.

 

Yeah, diefinately. The probe could come in just a few years...even though the trip would probably take a lot longer. It'll be a long time before they even think about sending umans, though.

 

Dude. It's 20 lightyears away. That means if you go at the speed-of-light, it would take you 20 years to get there. The speed-of-light is roughly 300,000 kilometers per second. The fastest spacecraft, Helios, can only go at 70 kilometers per second. Also, the minimum time it would take would be 20 years without wormhole technology, which is only speculative theory with no real evidence.

Antimatter is unusable as of now; creating more than an ounce of antimatter would take billions of dollars and a whole lot of time and effort. Also, when working with antimatter, you have to be VERY, VERY, VERY VERY, careful, because antimatter+matter=BIG boom. And I mean BIG!

 

I'm not saying antimatter isn't dangerous, I'm just saying they're begining to use it. And the few decades more was after the probe's return. I fully understand theses points. Granted I'm trying to be very optimistic.

 

I laughed at your post.

Anti-matter is nothing but a pipe dream. Because anti-matter crosses out actual matter when the two meet, it hasn't quite been perfected yet, muchless created.

Anti-matter has a long time to go.

They're not using it at all, man. They've merely created SMALL amounts. They haven't even tried using it. Far too risky for humans.

 

i was resaerching NASA last year. they said they were developing an antimatter engine and that the only problem left to workout was that the prototype was producing gama rays. i'll see if i can find the site again.

Edit: Found it! Now what was that about no one is attempting to use it?

 

Eventually they will find an easy way for humans to travel there, & just before the world ends they will send the best of the best to that new planet to start the human race a-new.
I will be one of them. :D

 

Pssh. While you're out playing space cowboy I'll be sitting in the spiritual verse, enjoying eternity. xD

But seriously, I'm surprised just how far we've come in creating antimatter engines. This means that we'll basically leapfrog through the technology timeline, from liquid or gas fueled engines that can really only take us a bit farther than the moon, to using antimatter to push us to Mars with only 10-thousandths of an M&M's weight in matter... o.o

 

I heard on the news that it's bigger than Earth so the gravity is greater, meaning if there was life it would probably be squished bugs. But still our technology is constantly expanding so in the future we'll most likely get there!
How exciting!

 

Our technology is ever expanding yes, but the idea of long range space travel is almost out of question in my head, we can not sustain lightspeed much less approach it, as well as any other way to travel would take years to get to this planet. In my mind it doesn't seem like we will be inhabiting it, or traveling to it. Not to mention that whole gravity situation will make it almost unbearable, imagine carrying another 80 pounds on your back...pass.

 

150 years ago it was thought to be completely out of the scope of humanity to ever soar the skies. Now, air transportation is the single fastest mean of getting around the world to date.

I have lost all hope in trying to put a limit on technology. I don't think there is one, to be honest. With the exception of a few, of course, like time travel. But I think we'll get to light speeds one day, assuming humans still exist on Earth by then.

 

from my knowledge of GCSE physics, it would be almost impossible to send someone to Gliese 581. firstly theres the fact that if you wanted to send it at high speed youd probly kill anyone on board. if you lowered the speed, it would take so long the person/people would have died several times over before getting there. cryostasis, could work, tho its too unreliable atm. the other option is a generation ship , basically a large community where the original occupants great, great, great, great grandchildren would reach the planet.
also, with the engines theres a but of a Catch-22. to accelerate you need fuel and big engines. this increases the weight, which increases the force needed to accelerate which means you need more fuel etc. gets more complicated the more you think about it.
but i suppose if its our last hope after destroying this planet then i guess we should probly go for it and hope for the best:)