GJ 1214b...

A new "water planet" has been discovered and aint it bout a bitch that a "water planet" cant support life...?



So think we'll find Earth 2 any day soon...?

Then go over there and fuck up that planet as well...

EDIT:

Woops forgot to link so here it is...

Link to Article...

Let me ask you a question. Do you want us to find the
second Earth?

It's usually at times of desperation we tend to find things.

Why do I doubt that we will (or will ever WANT TO) find sentient creatures that can survive in 400 F heat? Independence day anyone?

wel with the way we act now if we ever find E2 itll be fucked up within 50-200yrs give or take.

Well, I hope that mankind has learned enough by the time that another habitable planet is found and the necessary technological advancements have been made to colonize it. Otherwise it will be screwed over just the same way we are screwing up earth as the people will think "oh well, it is a fresh start, nothing to worry about yet" and once a certain point has been reached they'll stand there with the same "Oops did we do that?" effect.

and how can we reach it? NASA even can't reach pluto yet and they make a damn new project of going to another star-system..

You folks are way too anthropocentric. I don't mean that in the hippy, you-bastards-don't-think-about-trees-enough way; I just mean that you seem to be taking an unnecessarily anti-human view of the global ecosystem.
We may find another planet that can sustain life, or we may find one we can make to sustain life, but short of firing a great deal of nuclear weapons at it, I doubt we will "fuck it up"

But unfortunately, we A.R.E fucking Earth up. Humans are selfish. They want everything for themselves.

That's how wars and conflicts starts as well.

The way humans are now, we're nothing more than pests or parasites. We are completely wasting Earth's resources, and soon we will go to space and find for new "hosts" to let us leech off it.

Unless we develop some methods to self-sustain with resources, and not fuck up the resources of a planet, we will continue to be deemed as parasites.

You make it sound like the planet gives a fuck that we use up its resources. Guess what, it doesn't, and neither does the rest of the universe. Humans are selfish? Good, that's how we survive. Unfortunately that's also how we kill ourselves.

What we should care about is not fucking up (i.e. Pollution, Anthropogenic Global Warming, etc.) the only known planet that can sustain life to the point where we can't even live here anymore.


Cool story, bro

Fuck you, Rbz... That's what I was gonna' say.

Even if we did find a planet that was inhabitable it'd still take forever to actually inhabit it. Humanity is too negative to actually execute a plan that would have consequences that large, quickly and properly, people would be too busy bitching about their lives changing, blaming governing figures, complaining 'bout how the new planet doesn't have shit[Minerals or something...] that Earth had and other fun stuff. Then there's that scary fat lady that yells "THINK OF THE CHILDREN!".

Interesting. I really wanna see this happen, and lol and those people seeking their new mecca/palestine/vatican etc...

Or maybe they refuse to leave earth at all. Tis' teh land god hath promised us! they say.

Anyway, there are a lot of obstacles in this issue actually, but I'm positive that one day humanity will be able and mature enough to go beyond the scale of this small planet.

" Space........... is the last final Frontier of humanity"




I FOrgot the phrase

You aren't paying attention. You are still thinking of humans being the ecological center of the planet, rather than thinking of the ecosystem itself. You have no support for what you are saying, it's just hippie nonsense.
It's like people who want to save endangered species out of some guilt for not being one themselves. No other animal ever seems concerned about the extinction of another animal unless it was a food source, and even then they find another or die themselves. Species have been hunted to extinction by other species literally millions of times throughout the Earth's history. 99% of all species that ever existed are now gone. It is evolution at work. Trying to save endangered species is interfering with nature, but it's just a case of humans thinking everything is about them. They did this to the animal, or it's their responsibility to save it. It isn't. We live the same as any other creature of this planet, a part of it's ecosystem, and our highest priority is our own survival.
Besides, as far as we can tell, it is a massively difficult thing to destroy an established ecosystem, especially one surviving several billion years. It can change dramatically over time and become inhospitable to certain forms of life, but we do not have the power to destroy it.

The universe is massive. The chances of finding a planet remotely close to our needs is slim to none.

don't you think the two sentences...kinda contradict each other?

Shhh, nobody responded to it to give it the illusion that it made sense.

I think what he was trying to say is that, even as our technology advances, we have very limited means of exploring the universe; we haven't even made a manned trip to Mars yet, and that's only a fraction of the size of only our solar system, which is almost certain to contain no planet readily able to support life. So given that we can hardly even explore the planets nearest to us, and given the universe is so vast, in addition to the rarity of a planet like ours, it is not very likely that we will be able to find a planet similar to ours.
It's not like looking for a needle in a haystack, it's more like looking for a particular molecule of ice in Antarctica.
Maybe that makes more sense?

If that's even what the guy meant to say to begin with. Such ambiguity is not good.

Yeah that's what I mean. I need to work on my English sometimes