| hallowedbeeddie said: it´s very unlikely we can ever reach it. not at least any time soon, so I doubt it, but it would be great to know there´s life out there |
Think there was actually a facebook (or myspace) project last year that beamed a message to the system, although it was a different planet, C not G. If we get an answer, itll be in 2049 at the earliest.
SecondWar said:
Think there was actually a facebook (or myspace) project last year that beamed a message to the system, although it was a different planet, C not G. If we get an answer, itll be in 2049 at the earliest. |
There was, it is expected to reach the system in 2029.
| highwaystar101 said: Gliese 581 has all the good planets. It's been famous before this with both C and D, which are also very interesting. I'm sceptical about life though (Given our Earth centred 'blinkered' definition of life). They say this new planet is tidally locked, which would mean that it would be constantly baking on one side and freezing on the other. The weather conditions on such a planet would be intense. I certainly don't think it would be habitable for humans at any rate. |
Do you really care if it´s habitable for humans? we´re never gonna get there anyways. What would be more interestin to me would be to see if it has some sort of life at all. I know its locked but maybe there can be life like in the borders between the dark and light side maybe the conditions are ok there.
| wfz said: I would love to see pictures of this planet when they become available. And now we have a new planet to potentially live on. =P |
The camera that can "take pictures" of such a planet has not been invented yet.
You don't want to live on that planet either. At 3-4 times earth's mass (and roughly the same diameter), gravitational force would press you onto the ground.. and a tidally locked planet has other living problems, too. Let's not forget a red dwarf is a star in its final life cycle. If you wanted to emigrate to another star system, choose a star that has roughly the same age as our star...
SecondWar said:
Think there was actually a facebook (or myspace) project last year that beamed a message to the system, although it was a different planet, C not G. If we get an answer, itll be in 2049 at the earliest. |
that would be awesome. I hope I´m alive by then. and probably by then we have found a more suitable planet
I expect Dinosaurs with frickin' laser beans attached to there frickin' heads.
That, or disappoint.
hallowedbeeddie said:
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How are we not going to get there? Its possible. May not be in our lifetimes, but unless we destroy ourselves, our grandchildren may venture there.
Back from the dead, I'm afraid.
hallowedbeeddie said:
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If there is life there, the likelyhood it's like humankind is just ... 1 in a trillion. They could have dinosaur mutants the size of the empire statebuilding that shoot lazers.
Cool i hope i can go there im sick of this planet with only war in people´s mind.
hallowedbeeddie said:
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It would be *phew* windy there to say the very least, I don't see how a solvent would even exist in the twilight area to allow life to form in the first place. I'm not ruling life out, but I don't see it as very likely I'm afraid. I think you would probably have more chance of finding life on one of the moons of the gas giants than a planet like that.
Then again, they aren't 100% certain that the planet is tidally locked at all, it's only postulated. If it isn't tidally locked I would be wrong to begin with.
As for humans I know that it wouldn't be feasible to ever reach Gliese 581, well at least in the foreseeable future. Perhaps I should change it to "It certainly wouldn't be habitable for human like life".
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