Water found on Life Friendly Planet

[The Black Forrest]

Capital idea. We will unify humanity in fear of the aliens.

Why fear them though? They could be nice people, you know.

Everybody expects ET and they could end up being Klingons.

[Gormwood]

Why fear them though? They could be nice people, you know.

Everybody expects ET and they could end up being Klingons.

We throw Samurais and Vikings at them and the Klingons will respect us.

[Cameroi]

all of the planets we discover are large, because our way of finding them isn't really able to detect anything smaller.
(when we become able to detect planets smaller then our own earth, or even saturn, around distant suns, THAT will be REAL news)
what is reassuring is that nearly every star is a sun which has them. any in their sun's 'goldy locks' zone might have life as we 'know' it,
and of course, 'life' as we don't 'know' it, could be almost anywhere. (but wouldn't likely find us tasty nor us it)

water of course, in its liquid phase, is key to that 'life as we know it'. so this is encouraging.

we still have no way ourselves, to travel much beyond our own solar system within the natural span of our individual lives.
there are several possible work arounds to this.

but just knowing they're there, is good for a smile on my face too.

(there are twenty solar systems within twenty years at the speed of light.
only problem is, we've yet to accellerate anything larger then an atomic nucleus even a tenth of that.)

[Bombadil]

all of the planets we discover are large, because our way of finding them isn't really able to detect anything smaller.
what is reassuring is that nearly every star is a sun which has them. any in their sun's 'goldy locks' zone might have life as we 'know' it,
and of course, 'life' as we don't 'know' it, could be almost anywhere. (but wouldn't likely find us tasty nor us it)

water of course, in its liquid phase, is key to that 'life as we know it'. so this is encouraging.

we still have no way ourselves, to travel much beyond our own solar system within the natural span of our individual lives.
there are several possible work arounds to this.

but just knowing they're there, is good for a smile on my face too.

(there are twenty solar systems within twenty years at the speed of light.
only problem is, we've yet to accellerate anything larger then an atomic nucleus even a tenth of that.)

Of course the key question is whether we lather those large roaming pancakes with chocolate sauce or maple syrup.

[Auze]

"Life friendly" is a bit of an exaggeration, what with the planet being large, high in oxygen, tidally locked, and most likely constantly bathed in solar flares.

[Thermodolia]

Time to build an generation ship to go visit it and while we’re at it let’s fund faster-than-light tech and fast as light tech/just under light tech

[Valrifell]

Life "friendly" feels too strong a word. Life "acquaintance"? Life "knows but wouldn't let into their house"?

[Valrifell]

Time to build an generation ship to go visit it and while we’re at it let’s fund faster-than-light tech and fast as light tech/just under light tech

You can not physically break c without going massless. Astronauts need mass.

Well, theoretically you could warp spacetime but that's like real hard unless you have a lot of mass.

[Ethel mermania]

Time to build an generation ship to go visit it and while we’re at it let’s fund faster-than-light tech and fast as light tech/just under light tech

You can not physically break c without going massless. Astronauts need mass.

Well, theoretically you could warp spacetime but that's like real hard unless you have a lot of mass.

I am not that fat.

Besides I am going for the herds of delicious pancakes roaming across the plains.

[The Blaatschapen]

Time to build an generation ship to go visit it and while we’re at it let’s fund faster-than-light tech and fast as light tech/just under light tech

You can not physically break c without going massless. Astronauts need mass.

Well, theoretically you could warp spacetime but that's like real hard unless you have a lot of mass.

I suggest sending Christians, they have mass quite often.

[Dumb Ideologies]

I've just emailed aliens@bigsoggyplanet.space to see if they want to be friends.

[LiberNovusAmericae]

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/09/first-water-found-in-habitable-exoplanets-atmosphere-hubble-kepler-k2-18b/

So, considering the grand number of threads that are utterly depressing, combative, or just plain shitstorms, I wanted to celebrate something big in science that just went by. A planet, tens of times larger than earth has been found to have water on it. (No, we didn’t go, it’s through water vapor absorbing light. The article has more info on how that works.) That’s noteworthy, but not overtly so-other planets have been found to have water before. Thing is, this one is in the Goldilocks Zone of its respective star, making it the most likely candidate for life that we know of.

Sadly, we can’t exactly check-it’s 111 light years away. But SPACE!

So, NSG, do you think there might be life on this planet? Would it be worth it to go? Not just for extraterrestrial life, but also as a secondary planet for us? And if there was life, what would happen?

No, it is not worth going, as even if we can travel at the speed of light (which we can't), it would take 111 light years to get there. If it is larger than the Earth, then it is going to have more gravity, which could prevent humans from living there.

[Valrifell]

I've just emailed aliens@bigsoggyplanet.space to see if they want to be friends.

Let us know what they say.

[Dumb Ideologies]

I've just emailed aliens@bigsoggyplanet.space to see if they want to be friends.

Let us know what they say.

Something about dinner, tasty prey, yum-yum.

Probably an error in the translation software.

[The Andromeda Archipelago]

I myself see herds of pancakes roaming the land, large tasty pancakes.

Planet Butterworth, here we come.
Or is it Plan't Jemima?

Just 'cause you pour syrup on space don't make it pancakes.

[Ethel mermania]

Let us know what they say.

Something about dinner, tasty prey, yum-yum.

Probably an error in the translation software.

Ask not for whom the pancake is syruped, you are syruped for the pancake.

[The Blaatschapen]

Let us know what they say.

Something about dinner, tasty prey, yum-yum.

Probably an error in the translation software.

Even alien life wants to eat me. I'm just that delicious