so they've discovered a p[planet that is almost equivalent to earth, and almost certainly has a race of equal inferiority to the human race? what do you all think of this?

http://tinyurl.com/38e3q47

Not sure how much of the planet could harbor life, given the way one side faces the sun all the time (I know, the border where the sun-facing and other side meet, but not sure how wide a habitable zone you'd get).

I heard about this on the news. I think that they have to do a four year study on this planet to see if it really is capable of life. it is indeed very interesting though.

Exciting news! I'd heard about this earlier, too. We'll have to wait and see if the claims pan out for possible life to exist there.

-- Nephele

Well, that's it. Let's take a ride out there and see what's going on.

To the the ram-scoops!

More study is needed, but honestly, I can't see why anyone finds this surprising. Our universe is huge - it's very arrogant to say that our planet is the only one of its kind in all the billions of galaxies and star systems in the universe.

I think I actually read about this planet on Wiki awhile back. I could feel equally unimpressed as Briseis is, but I think it's mainly because I'm still mourning the loss of Pluto from our planetary family.

At least it's still a Dwarf Planet! And ther are other Dwarf Planets too... so it's like Pluto was adopted out in a way... from the planetary family to the dwarf planetary family! Is that any consolation to you?

I think the news about this planet is quite wonderful... In some ways.

However, if, on our own world, we can't say for certain whether a country in the midst of many others is, or isn't, developing weapons of mass destruction and therefore use it as an excuse to make a pre-emptive strike against that country, what chance is there of the governments of Earth - on determining that the planet probably has oil supplies and is otherwise habitable - not dusting off all those 1950s blueprints for weapons-carrying spaceships?

And what are we doing about getting there, or anywhere else for that matter? We have not even got to Mars yet, its not 20 light years away like Gliese 581g, its right next door in astrological terms.

Hopefully, we'll all die on this planet before we can even think of dirtying up another one. The idea I've heard other people espouse of us being able to move there after we've destroyed this one makes me want to blow both planets to smithereens.

well, if youve bee watching all the UFO stuff, the youd see that there have been A LOT of movements and sightings since this thing was found... i have a feeling that something big is going to happen before we are all dead and gone, and that the next few years, maybe a decade at the max, will be big ones... but, we will have to see....

Is it wrong that I took a blank headstone I found at a craft store last Halloween, wrote "Pluto" on it, and stuck it in my backyard?

Eh. though I will admit it is likely that we are not the only intellect forms of life in the universe, I also do not care to seek it out or spend anything wondering what would happen should we discover it and make it a fact.

As for something big happening, in what way do you mean 'something big' as that can man any number of things? Personally, I doubt it. To me, it is almost like saying the December 21, 2012 is doomsday. Now it will be a astrological day for the history books to be sure, but anything further than that frame of thinking is guesswork and fantastical notions and ideas.

As a kid, I read practically every science fiction paperback I could get my hands on (I'm a huge fan of James White's Sector General series). So, even without absolute evidence yet of there being life on Gliese 581g, I'm irresistibly drawn to the news and intrigued with any speculation as to what that planet holds.

Here's a YouTube link to a preview of one of my all-time favorite Discovery Channel documentaries: Alien Planet.



You can get the DVD from Amazon.com.

-- Nephele