Geez guys, they already found a new earth back in 2007, named Gliese 581. More info here.

Excerpts from the article below:

An Earthlike planet spotted outside our solar system is the first found that could support liquid water and harbor life, scientists announced Tuesday. The new planet is about 50 percent bigger than Earth and about five times more massive. The new "super-Earth" is called Gliese 581 C, after its star, Gliese 581, a diminutive red dwarf star located 20.5 light-years away that is about one-third as massive as the sun.

Because it lies within its star's habitable zone and is relatively close to Earth, Gliese 581 C could be a very important target for future space missions dedicated to the search for extraterrestrial life, said study team member Xavier Delfosse of Grenoble University in France.

"On the treasure map of the universe, one would be tempted to mark this planet with an X," Delfosse said.

At 12/17/09 01:51 AM, FrozenTop wrote: 40 light years away. We can't even travel close to light speed. Much less surpass it (well, relativity suggests nothing goes faster than light speed, though some people suggest light speed itself can be varied, so... its confusing)

40 Light Years is pretty close, actually. It's travealable in a lifetime even without lightspeed transport...

Kevin Costner is teh hawtz00rz

This is great! With the most cutting-edge rocket technology, it will only take me 400,000 years before I can boil myself to death on an uninhabitable planet.

At 12/17/09 05:38 AM, Rabid-Echidna wrote: This is great! With the most cutting-edge rocket technology, it will only take me 400,000 years before I can boil myself to death on an uninhabitable planet.

a... POSSIBLY.... uninhabitable planet ;)

At 12/17/09 05:42 AM, HoboPorn wrote:

a... POSSIBLY.... uninhabitable planet ;)

A 200C surface is pretty damn uninhabitable.

At 12/17/09 05:44 AM, Rabid-Echidna wrote:

At 12/17/09 05:42 AM, HoboPorn wrote:

a... POSSIBLY.... uninhabitable planet ;)

A 200C surface is pretty damn uninhabitable.

for life on earth as we know it, yes, but WHO KNOWS, KEVIN COSTNER MIGHT BE THERE AND DO STUFF TO THE LIFEFORMS.
interplanetary-racial sex.

dude 40 light years away....that's alot of miles...

At 12/17/09 05:44 AM, Rabid-Echidna wrote:

At 12/17/09 05:42 AM, HoboPorn wrote:

a... POSSIBLY.... uninhabitable planet ;)

A 200C surface is pretty damn uninhabitable.

The ability to grow at 121° Celsius is significant because for over a century it has been the temperature used to sterilize medical equipment. Scientists thought that such temperatures would kill all life-forms. "It's kind of a benchmark," Lovley said. "This is like breaking the four-minute mile."

;)

Love you too rabid.

At 12/17/09 05:44 AM, Rabid-Echidna wrote:

At 12/17/09 05:42 AM, HoboPorn wrote:

a... POSSIBLY.... uninhabitable planet ;)

A 200C surface is pretty damn uninhabitable.

In case you didn't read between the lines in that last post. (hope this doesn't double post me)

It's a way of saying we learn new things everyday :O

At 12/17/09 06:05 AM, HoboPorn wrote:

In case you didn't read between the lines in that last post. (hope this doesn't double post me)

It's a way of saying we learn new things everyday :O

Yeah, that article is really useful to me because I'm a single-celled extremophile.

At 12/17/09 06:23 AM, Rabid-Echidna wrote:

At 12/17/09 06:05 AM, HoboPorn wrote:

In case you didn't read between the lines in that last post. (hope this doesn't double post me)

It's a way of saying we learn new things everyday :O

Yeah, that article is really useful to me because I'm a single-celled extremophile.

hahaha silly rabid; learning's for kids I guess.

You're missing the bigger picture. But at the same time I doubt you are. It's 3:30 A.M. here. so whatever responses there are i'll get to in the morning.

Cool, I'll get a couple of rafts so we don't get boiled.

At 12/17/09 06:31 AM, HoboPorn wrote:

hahaha silly rabid; learning's for kids I guess.

You're missing the bigger picture. But at the same time I doubt you are. It's 3:30 A.M. here. so whatever responses there are i'll get to in the morning.

Scientific exploration is for Alex Filippenko-looking losers who get off on finding insignificant clouds of methane floating out in a galaxy that nobody cares about. If I don't get to fly to another planet through a wormhole and fuck Vulcan bitches it's a waste of time.

At 12/16/09 08:42 PM, Twilight wrote:

At 12/16/09 08:36 PM, STEM wrote: Yea lets go live on a water planet that will boil us alive

lmfao

We should bring lobsters there before humans. Worst case scenerio is that the ocean will taste delicious.

At 12/17/09 05:44 AM, Rabid-Echidna wrote:

At 12/17/09 05:42 AM, HoboPorn wrote: a... POSSIBLY.... uninhabitable planet ;)

A 200C surface is pretty damn uninhabitable.

Yes, if we were to walk around there naked we might not survive for long.

But fortunately there are plenty of materials on earth which can resist such temperatures with ease. Even ordinary space suits from 40 years ago can resist temperatures much higher than that. So by the time we are able to get there, colonizing the planet will probably be relatively easy.

At 12/17/09 02:53 AM, Hoeloe wrote: 40 Light Years is pretty close, actually. It's travealable in a lifetime even without lightspeed transport...

Bring in the portal gun.

At 12/16/09 08:34 PM, DumbassDude wrote:

"Astronomers have discovered a new "waterworld" 40 light years away, raising the chances of the existence of Earth-like planets."

Dammit! If only it was at least a desert planet. Then we would have our own pandora. (borderlands)

All we need is a comedically oversized Air Conditioner and a way to traverse 40 light years and BOOM! We're good to colonize.

Or we could just use the planet to cook an infinite amount of several different kinds of foods and end world hunger. I AM A GENIUS. /caps

Or we could just colonize the moon, Mars, Deimos, and/or Phobos, an asteroid, Titan, Ganymede, and/or Europa.

I like the Deimos idea. A madness character was named after it. We could colonize it in his memory.

At 12/16/09 08:42 PM, Jawdyn wrote: LETS GO THERE

TOMORROW

Why go tomorrow, when we can go... TODAY?

Wait a minute, midnight has passed. Son of a bitch.

That's a lot of light years.

Sounds great.

I can't swim, what do i do?

Wtf, I just watched Avatar and its like a new earth.

Can I be president when we colonize it?

At 12/20/09 01:32 AM, bifgis wrote: Can I be president when we colonize it?

Well your were the first to ask soooo......no.

I will be the president- no, the overlord of the other earth.

New earth...

At 12/17/09 02:53 AM, Hoeloe wrote:

At 12/17/09 01:51 AM, FrozenTop wrote: 40 light years away. We can't even travel close to light speed. Much less surpass it (well, relativity suggests nothing goes faster than light speed, though some people suggest light speed itself can be varied, so... its confusing)

40 Light Years is pretty close, actually. It's travealable in a lifetime even without lightspeed transport...

I hope you're joking. Seriously? With current NASA Space Shuttles it'd take around 75,000+ Earth years give or take a fair few years. A light year is 5.8 trillion miles.

Actually, more like 300,000 years. :(

At 12/16/09 08:36 PM, STEM wrote: Yea lets go live on a water planet that will boil us alive

We'd be like egg noodles in the large boiling pot that is the Earth II. Sounds like a sweet vacation to me. I'm gonna grab SPF-2043572 sunscreen, a large flame proof lawn chair, and really thick shades to keep cool.