Newfound "super-Earth"

Named GJ 667Cc Scientists are saying it can easily have water and possible life! At only 22 light years away it's a pretty exciting new find. Source


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reply to post by 6minutes212

Only 22 light years! Why, we could go and be back in time for the Super Bowl!

reply to post by jtap66


Considering the last one found was 600 light years away, I'd say this is something to be excited about.

Great find, really exciting stuff. Thanks for posting this.

reply to post by 6minutes212


That is so cool. I think we as a human race should put more of our energy into space exploration than starting all these damn wars. I mean just think, we could have future generation's on other planets some day. Hopefully they won't destroy them the way we have done to our home now!!

reply to post by JOBEone


The thought of future generations being born and raised on an alien world is simply a fantastic thought. I love speculating about such things.

My worry is this.... should we really be contaminating the rest of the galaxy with the virus of humanity?

you'll find when the curtain is dropped there just may be a planet sat closer than you think
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reply to post by jazz10


Considering the big announcement this past December was one 600 light years away and 2 months later they are finding one now only 22 light years away saying it shouldn't have been this easy I'm hoping for the same thing. =) I just hope the momentum keeps pace.

reply to post by 6minutes212


It will. Whether they like it or not.
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Originally posted by 6minutes212
reply to post by jazz10

 

Considering the big announcement this past December was one 600 light years away and 2 months later they are finding one now only 22 light years away saying it shouldn't have been this easy I'm hoping for the same thing. =) I just hope the momentum keeps pace.

Even better is SETI is now checking these latest stars that have been found to have planets circling them. For once common sense seems to have won over beauracracy. Even if its still a needle in a haystick in terms fo finding / detecting alien life, at least the haystack got a lot smaller.

4.5 times the size of the Earth....ooooooofff!

Don't want to walk around on that thing, my sizable girth would make my poor old heart stop!

"Honey? Does this planet make me look fat?"

And a 28 day year to boot!

O.o just thought of another "ladies" joke, but I'll refrain! hehehehehe.

If we "could" get to it would we be able to live there? Would it have breathable oxygen?

Stating 'in a habitable zone' sets imaginations wild, all a habitable zone means is sustaining the possibility for liquid water. Under extreme pressures, (like 4.5 times sea level) the freezing point of water lowers. Also a greater mass means greater stresses and this baby is under extreme stresses orbiting a star in a month. That being the case it should be in a zone closer than Venus and Mercury that have only trace amounts of water, even with Venus's heavy atmosphere its completely void of water. Another thing mentioned in the article that the planet just doesn't have going for it is its star is primarily hydrogen and helium and lacks heavier elements, so I doubt you'd have to pack your swimming suit.

"Statistics tell us we shouldn't have found something this quickly this soon unless there's a lot of them out there," Vogt said. "This tells us there must be an awful lot of these planets out there. It was almost too easy to find, and it happened too quickly."

reply to post by 6minutes212


For some reason this statement gave me the willies...

Lets go there, I'm done here...

reply to post by 6minutes212


ONLY 22 lightyears?
You do realize it still takes 95,000 years for us to reach that with our current mainstream technology, right?

Let`s send them one of those "faster than light" neutrinos to say hi ....Can I get a Visa to go there on vacations ?

We need to do what humans do, go there and stick our Old Glory up it's ass

Originally posted by ssupp
reply to post by 6minutes212

 

ONLY 22 lightyears?
You do realize it still takes 95,000 years for us to reach that with our current mainstream technology, right?

Since we just found it, that means we are seeing what it was like and not what it is like. It could have been destroyed by an Asteroid by now.

Originally posted by Patriotsrevenge

Originally posted by ssupp
reply to post by 6minutes212

 

ONLY 22 lightyears?
You do realize it still takes 95,000 years for us to reach that with our current mainstream technology, right?

Since we just found it, that means we are seeing what it was like and not what it is like. It could have been destroyed by an Asteroid by now.

Good point.