Another Earth ...

[Alpha]

It's got the same climate as Earth, plus water and gravity. A newly discovered planet is the most stunning evidence that life - just like us - might be out there.

 

 

This is the scene - or may be the scene - on what is possibly the most extraordinary world to have been discovered by astronomers: the first truly Earth-like planet to have been found outside our Solar System.

 

The discovery was announced today by a team of European astronomers, using a telescope in La Silla in the Chilean Andes.

 

The Earth-like planet that could be covered in oceans and may support life is 20.5 light years away, and has the right temperature to allow liquid water on its surface.

 

 

Read the full article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/arti...in_page_id=1965

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So the question is, Do you believe another life form can exist outside of Earth?

[BlackKnight]

Of course I believe. It all comes down to favourable conditions, and it looks like those have been met here. Shame nothing will come of this (contact etc) in my lifetime.

[Wizard]

Of course I believe. It all comes down to favourable conditions, and it looks like those have been met here. Shame nothing will come of this (contact etc) in my lifetime.

Yeah, plus I doubt I'll be alive in 41+ years.

 

Also I just heard this on the radio (complete with witty comments on a "Want to buy terraforming, must be done in next 40 years").

 

Now we just have to get there.

[DropDeadEd]

Of course I believe. It all comes down to favourable conditions, and it looks like those have been met here. Shame nothing will come of this (contact etc) in my lifetime.

 

 

well it all depends on two things:

 

People don't die from a meteor slamming the earth.

 

People don't die from the return of Jesus.

[Robert]

Does it have petroleum?

[DropDeadEd]

Does it have petroleum?

 

 

We can get things to run on solar energy

[Darken]

they should send robert to check it

[DropDeadEd]

they should send robert to check it

 

 

Petrol would be dead fossils no?

[Robert]

something that died i believe

[DropDeadEd]

something that died i believe

 

 

life would have to have existed.

[OverlordMondo]

Well if we can see water, it can't be too difficult to see petroleum, which would tell is if life has existed there before. But then, I'm no astronomer.

 

Edit: Or oil guru. Isn't most petroleum underground?

[DropDeadEd]

Well if we can see water, it can't be too difficult to see petroleum, which would tell is if life has existed there before. But then, I'm no astronomer.

 

Edit: Or oil guru. Isn't most petroleum underground?

 

 

Terra forming ftw.

 

Quite possibly there is.

[Diso]

That's pretty interesting to know there's a similar planet to ours. It'll be interesting to see if life evolves there or not depending on the conditions on that planet.

[Mooney]

Life? Yes.

 

My dad actually believes that humans started out on both Mars and Earth, but the ones on Mars screwed their planet up (hence the "no water or air" thing) and came to Earth where they wiped out Neanderthals to become the dominant race.

[Smilee]

Very interesting, also from another forum:

It's foolish to assume that life will develop on every planet that's close to the size and makeup of our own, since there are a lot of factors that contributed to its evolution here. But it's also hasty (albeit more cautious) to make the call that because a planet's star or gravity or rotation is different than our own that life on it is impossible.

For now we just have to wait until more information is gathered before we can make such an assumption.