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Mistershine on 25 May 2011
Kasz216 said:
The_vagabond7 said:

Why the fuck did they feel the need to translate "years" into "turtle lives"? What fucking country uses that as a metric? Was there anybody here that said "330,000 years? I don't know how long that is! Oh wait, good they put it into turtle lives, now I understand."


Also strange considering turtles don't really have traditional lifespans.

Once they hit maturity they just stop aging and only die from illness or injury... and we really have no way of measuring how old a turtle lives on average.


So it could be just 1 turtle life then?



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Rath on 25 May 2011
megaman79 said:

Hold on, wut about Titan, the moon they mentioned on Wonders of the Solar System?


1) The article said outside of the solar system

2) The article said planet

 

=P



Troll_Whisperer on 25 May 2011
highwaystar101 said:

Ah! Gliese 581d.

You can guarantee that once every few months this planet comes back into the news as "The first planet other than Earth that can support life!". The simple fact is there are so many factors that we don't know about when it comes to this planet. We know its size, mass and distance from Gliese 581, I think anything past that is speculation.

People just really want this planet to be able to support life.

What's its size and mass? Anything like Earth? Because so far all they have discovered is gigant planets where humans wouldn't be able to live anyway.

Other than that, I agree with you, it could have an atmosphere of sulphuric acid for all we know.



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highwaystar101 on 25 May 2011
Troll_Whisperer said:
highwaystar101 said:

Ah! Gliese 581d.

You can guarantee that once every few months this planet comes back into the news as "The first planet other than Earth that can support life!". The simple fact is there are so many factors that we don't know about when it comes to this planet. We know its size, mass and distance from Gliese 581, I think anything past that is speculation.

People just really want this planet to be able to support life.

What's its size and mass? Anything like Earth? Because so far all they have discovered is gigant planets where humans wouldn't be able to live anyway.

Other than that, I agree with you, it could have an atmosphere of sulphuric acid for all we know.

Compared to the Earth it is believed to have something like six times the mass and twice the size. And you're right the vast majority of exoplanets are giant, but Gliese 581d is certainly on the smaller end.



A203D on 25 May 2011
highwaystar101 said:
Troll_Whisperer said:
highwaystar101 said:

Ah! Gliese 581d.

You can guarantee that once every few months this planet comes back into the news as "The first planet other than Earth that can support life!". The simple fact is there are so many factors that we don't know about when it comes to this planet. We know its size, mass and distance from Gliese 581, I think anything past that is speculation.

People just really want this planet to be able to support life.

What's its size and mass? Anything like Earth? Because so far all they have discovered is gigant planets where humans wouldn't be able to live anyway.

Other than that, I agree with you, it could have an atmosphere of sulphuric acid for all we know.

Compared to the Earth it is believed to have something like six times the mass and twice the size. And you're right the vast majority of exoplanets are giant, but Gliese 581d is certainly on the smaller end.

I also heard about the size and mass, but i was under the impression that based on the relatively larger size and mass, its less likely this planet can support life.

i suppose the question is also perphaps it couldnt support sentient life, but could it support plant based life, or something more simple. but i think its possible, as you mentioned once before, for an advanced civilisation to venture to other worlds using ships that could travel fast, but still slower than the speed of light. so its not improbable that humans could one day colonise such worlds.



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Troll_Whisperer on 25 May 2011
highwaystar101 said:
Troll_Whisperer said:
highwaystar101 said:

Ah! Gliese 581d.

You can guarantee that once every few months this planet comes back into the news as "The first planet other than Earth that can support life!". The simple fact is there are so many factors that we don't know about when it comes to this planet. We know its size, mass and distance from Gliese 581, I think anything past that is speculation.

People just really want this planet to be able to support life.

What's its size and mass? Anything like Earth? Because so far all they have discovered is gigant planets where humans wouldn't be able to live anyway.

Other than that, I agree with you, it could have an atmosphere of sulphuric acid for all we know.

Compared to the Earth it is believed to have something like six times the mass and twice the size. And you're right the vast majority of exoplanets are giant, but Gliese 581d is certainly on the smaller end.

I think that pretty much means humans wouldn't be able to live there no matter what kind of atmosphere or temperature it has.

Not that it matters, because there are probably thousands of planets with the perfect conditions for human life.



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