http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070424/ap_on_sc/habitable_planet_2
2007-04-24 12:01:10 · 8 answers · asked by HomeSweetSiliconValley 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
You are on the ball. It was only discovered yesterday. There is also a large Neptune-sized Gliese 581 b planet in this system that was discovered in 2005.
The problem of course is getting there with enough water food and oxygen in a ship that could carry a sustainable colony, A wide variety of skills would be needed and enough variety in their gene pool such that the colonists would avoid the perils of inbreeding that have beset the royal families of Europe for generations
2007-04-24 12:56:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
581 c orbits a red dwarf. If you want to know what life might be like there, read "Childhood's End" by Arthur C. Clarke. Somebody stows away on a spacecraft and ends up on a planet with a red sun.
2007-04-24 12:47:28 · answer #2 · answered by zee_prime 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
While it may well have liquid water the odds of free oxygen in the atmosphere is far less likely, since it is believed plant-life is responsible for ours. It is much more likely than not that the atmosphere would be poisonous to us.
2007-04-24 15:08:58 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
exciting news, isn't it? they're not sure it rotates, so it's possible one side's constantly light, and the other dark, but on the plus side it says the red dwarf star is about 20 times the size of our moon in its appearance from the planet.
here's to hoping only environmentalists will be allowed to go there...
2007-04-24 13:23:41 · answer #4 · answered by answer faerie, V.T., A. M. 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Let's see...120-trillion miles is just over 20 light years. So if we could travel at the speed of light it would take us 20+ years to get there. Naw...guess I'll stick around here.
2007-04-24 12:09:17 · answer #5 · answered by Chug-a-Lug 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
sorry been there the pubs are crap and the night life is not too good. and the shops shut at 89mins past 27 oclock
try again when the railnetwork is better
2007-04-24 12:12:51 · answer #6 · answered by subaru222 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Not me ... all we know is that's its 5 times more massive than the earth and may be in a temperate area. Other than that it could be a death trap.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gliese_581_c
2007-04-24 12:14:02 · answer #7 · answered by Gene 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Na, you go ahead. I've got a lot more going for me in the near future.
2007-04-24 12:04:44 · answer #8 · answered by vanamont7 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋