Super Earth: HD40307-G

[davos]

cool stuff

http://www.space.com/18384-super-earth-may-have-liquid-water-video.html

[GAme]

now if we could just get there.

[Hugor Hill]

just saw this on reddit as well. awesome!

http://www.bbc.co.uk...onment-20249753

[Darth Biscuit]

^ that was what I was gonna say... it's only 47 light years away...

At least we may be able to see it really well with that new space telescope and see if it does in fact look like it could have life.

[Jase]

dibs.

[DC Amp]

More than 7 times more massive equals more gravity which means objects weight more. Any life there would be a bunch of Hercules'..maybe we should just stay in our own neighborhood. :phew:

[Seal (SmittyIsOurSavior)]

Spooky.

[davos]

More than 7 times more massive equals more gravity which means objects weight more. Any life there would be a bunch of Hercules'..maybe we should just stay in our own neighborhood. :phew:

that's heavy doc :)

[Inimicus]

And just think, at .5c it would only take us 94 years to get there.

Now if we can just find a way to transport 160 people and supplies at .5c we would be ready for the mother of all road trips.

[Happy Panther]

So there is a Super Earth out there and I am stuck on regular Earth.

This is so typical of my life.

[Darth Biscuit]

And just think, at .5c it would only take us 94 years to get there.

Now if we can just find a way to transport 160 people and supplies at .5c we would be ready for the mother of all road trips.

Wouldn't they also need enough supplies for their great-great-great grandkids to return to earth in 189 years if there was no life on HD40307-G?

[Inimicus]

Wouldn't they also need enough supplies for their great-great-great grandkids to return to earth in 189 years if there was no life on HD40307-G?

Meh...

Screw 'em. Nobody here is going to know them by the time they would get back anyway. Let them start a new civilization there.

Seriously though. If the planet has liquid water (as in H2O) its not unreasonable to think that establishing a colony would be an easy task when compared to actually getting there.

[Darth Biscuit]

Meh...

Screw 'em. Nobody here is going to know them by the time they would get back anyway. Let them start a new civilization there.

Seriously though. If the planet has liquid water (as in H2O) its not unreasonable to think that establishing a colony would be an easy task when compared to actually getting there.

Yes, getting there would be a much bigger hurdle, with the one exception of the much higher gravity. Be damned hard for us to build a colony in super high gravity, esp if we had no artificial gravity on the space ship for the journey.

[Guest]

Bigger planet = bigger people = bigger boobs. Sign me up.