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 Scientists Find ‘Habitable’ PlanetPosted on Apr 25, 2007
A team of scientists has discovered what could be the first habitable planet outside the solar system. More information is needed before an accurate assessment can be made, but researchers have suggested that planet 581c has a temperature range of between 32 and 104 degrees, and could contain vast quantities of liquid water. One scientist said of the discovery: “On the treasure map of the universe, one would be tempted to mark this planet with an X.”
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By DennisD, April 25, 2007 at 7:31 pm #
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If the oil companies thought oil was there - they’d be there in five years or less at the tax payers expense.
Report thisBy DrMatt22, April 25, 2007 at 6:43 pm #
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Dear Lord! Someone needs to make this story go away quick. Go kidnap the guys running the telescope that found this planet and ship ‘em to Antartica or rural Ohio or something. Otherwise, Bush and Cheney are going to want to see if “there’s oil in them there planet 581c’s hills”, or “Shooter [that’s what Bush call’s Cheney], this whole middle east thing ain’t workin’ out and Blair has gone ‘Nancy Boy’ on us, so I think you, me, and Rummy...yeah, let’s see what he’s up to...should go visit this 581c and see about black gold”...etc., etc.
Report thisBy CaesarTheDay, April 25, 2007 at 2:40 pm #
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We can’t put Bush, Cheney, Alberto or Carl on the next space shuttle out to the new world. We want to communicate to the universe that we’re a planet of INTELLIGENT beings. Just think of the possibilities if they reached a civilization. With their power of spin, they would convert them to Christianity, pollute the planet and start a unilateral intergalactic war.
Report thisBy PaulMagillSmith, April 25, 2007 at 1:21 pm #
I wouldn’t get in a tizzy over this. Just think...if there are an infinite number of stars with planets there are an infinite number with habitable climate, oxygen atmospheres, liquid water, and even advanced life forms...taken to the extreme there are even people who look just like you & me there, and they are inquisitively looking back at us right now.
Carl Sagan has already dealt with this subject (long before he died...great loss for us all). Even with the existing resources available (greatly dimished even since his death) there wouldn’t be enough material to send but a few select people to another planet, EVEN IN OUR OWN SOLAR SYSTEM!
We might be able to send seed stock, but billions of us are stuck here with what we’ve got, so we need to make the most of it.
Since Duh-bya is so intent on being a monarchial tyrant let’s make him the King of Mars ("One way ticket, please"). My apologies to the Martians LOL.
Report thisBy QuyTran, April 25, 2007 at 11:16 am #
How about sending all the members of Bush/Cheney and their servants in the House & Senate to this unnamed planet ? But don’t forget to hold all their fortunes they make during their tenures as national destroyers.
Report thisBy Joshua Antonetti, April 25, 2007 at 9:28 am #
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Even if the planet is habitable we dont have the technology to travel to it in a human lifetime. We should be developing transportation before we start looking trillions of miles away for a planet we cant get to.
Report thisBy Mike Zacchino, April 25, 2007 at 8:58 am #
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First it will need people. Then it will need democracy. Let’s put George, Dick, Carl, Condie and Alberto on the next shuttle and get the process rolling.
Report thisBy joe73072, April 25, 2007 at 8:12 am #
‘liquid water’? do you mean liquid h2o?
Report thisi thought water was the liquid form of h2o...silly me
By Outraged, April 25, 2007 at 7:21 am #
I have to say there are some pretty big “ifs” in this story. It’s great that we’re looking though. The thing about it is, if it would be habitable, we humans would make short work of that.
Report thisBy GW=MCHammered, April 25, 2007 at 6:50 am #
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120 Trillion sounds like a lot until you think of it in terms of the Cost of War or the National Debt… suddenly it’s utterly manageable. Ugh!
Suppose TruthDig will sponsor a relativistic cruise to ‘Habitable’ one day? Book a few science/skeptic lecturers and workshops too. Talk about a celestial edu-vacation from Earth’s geo-politico incubus. Hey, what if the world really is what we make of it?
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