BREAKING NEWS: Planet CONFIRMED with WATER

[Desi_guy]

How far away is it?

300,000 years

[sproles134]

Just because science has a theory doesn't mean it's correct either. Remember this, it's just the best "guess" which are changed all the time and always have problems and can be completely wrong, I'm not arguing about science as a whole, just theories and what not.

lol...

electromagnetism is a theory, yet computers, televisions and other electronics all work just fine.

[hardgainer91]

[Maiar]

I honestly dont care about a planet 100 light years away

You don't care about the implications life on another planet could have on our existence?

[dmaaack]

it would take a space shuttle 22 MILLION years to get there.

[HumbleLifter]

You don't care about the implications life on another planet could have on our existence?

Theres no way to find life there *******

[Maiar]

Theres no way to find life there *******

you are a cocksmoker of the highest degree

[Coppatop]

"COULD" have water.

QFT. The planet is in the habitable zone, so it could sustain life / have water.

[Maiar]

Someone explain how you measure heat from something so impossibly far away, photographs can't calculate on RGB channels the amount of light to put off heat etc.. So to say we know would be a fallacy

Sorry but I can't take someone with bible quotes under their name seriously when it comes to science. You *******s have an agenda against it.

This 'it's just a theory' BS makes me cringe everytime i read it.

[HumbleLifter]

you are a cocksmoker of the highest degree

science damn you

[Ricky116]

Just because science has a theory doesn't mean it's correct either. Remember this, it's just the best "guess" which are changed all the time and always have problems and can be completely wrong, I'm not arguing about science as a whole, just theories and what not.

At what point does a best guess become fact? When the error is 1%? 0.1% 0.0000000000000000001%? Certain things are known, Wien's Law is a fundamental conversion between wavelength and temperature.

I see what you are saying, but at some point a best 'guess' is correct. My best guess for a stone being thrown out of a window is that it will go down so how many times does the experiment have to be performed for the best guess to become a rule? I don't see anyone disputing this case of (simple) gravity.

When people say theories change all the time, it is not really 'change' but more refinement. Take the recent faster-than-light neutrinos proposal (generally thought not correct), even if it was proven to be true and Einstein's theory was 'wrong', einstein's gravity would still get 99.99999% of situations correct, and a refinement would have to be made to take care of neutrinos or what-have-you.

What I'm saying is, even if the law that is Wien's Law happened to be wrong, it would still be correct in 99.99999999999999999999% of situations, just maby our understanding of the star's temperature would go from 10000k with an error of 100K to 10000k with an error of 200K.

Quantum physics and relativity being the two 'revolutionary' ideas of physics which changed everything 'dramatically', still doesn't matter to many physists who continue to use classical techniques to understand physical processes. Changes to theory =/= all previous physics carried out by the theory is incorrect.

[Chitownbrah]

correct me if im wrong but wouldnt time stop for someone traveling at the speed of light? so 600 years traveling at the speed of light would be an instant to the person doing the traveling. 600 years to us on earth tho

Time doesn't travel. A person traveling at the speed of light (lol) for 600 years would still have aged 600 years in their perspective.

[iNegUthenLol]

Time doesn't travel. A person traveling at the speed of light (lol) for 600 years would still have aged 600 years in their perspective.

Mind blown

[kentykentkent]

I'm not to sure if any of you realise this, but 600 light years in the grand scheme of the universe is rather short... in fact it is extremely short, the furthest galaxy humans have discovered is 13.2 BILLION light years away : http://www.abc.net.au/news/2010-10-2...xy-yet/2306322
with the way technology is going, i wouldn't be surprised if we find a way to go faster than the speed of light ( which scientists have recently discovered is infact possible) or infact chryogenically freeze humans to travl to that planet, set up a teleportation device and have instant access to that planet.( kind of like the plot of 'lost in space')

[Ricky116]

Time doesn't travel. A person traveling at the speed of light (lol) for 600 years would still have aged 600 years in their perspective.

A photon (travelling at the speed of light) experiences 0 time and travels 0 meters in its frame. The very instant it is emitted, it is absorbed. A person going at 0.999c would experience very little time getting to this planet.

[mike.hunt]

You fickle-minded retards, do you think people 100 years ago thought we would be flying around the sky in planes? Hell no, anything is possible and in 200 years we will be able to travel at warp speed to our sister planet. My body is ready.

[soundcheck]

Lol, this. I expected a lulzy troll thread. Instead I got scientific speculation. Son...disappoint.

i came in expecting this lul

[iNegUthenLol]

You fickle-minded retards, do you think people 100 years ago thought we would be flying around the sky in planes? Hell no, anything is possible and in 200 years we will be able to travel at warp speed to our sister planet. My body is ready.

This

[Fon7ana]

Too much real life ITT.

[TheHeavyG]

Omg are you THE Jayson01 from the library who invented the tenuous cold approach lunge a Reese's cup???? You sir are a gentleman and a scholar. Give us update, tap dat a$$?

[Jattfusion]

"COULD" have water.

pretty much this

[lukeaye]

brb getting in my light speed cannon for 600 years.

But having said that they did find a particle that could travel slightly faster than light.

So it may only be 599 years.

[anonymousceleb]

I suspect it would be more likely we'd go to the Gliese system before this place as it's only 20 light years away. Temperature isn't really that high on the list of the priorities--it tends to get colder in space than on ANY planet and we can deal with space--and 22b still hasn't been confirmed to have a solid surface; it could just be a small gas planet with crushing air pressure, the wrong kind of atmosphere and weather that would destroy anything you expose to it.

[ChillBot]

u mad when aliens dream about aliens....they dream about me?

[joshsaussey]

isthisreallife? awesome discovery. Even though it is far away, one day we might have the inventions to get there faster.

[Nikilwig]

Breaking news OP is a unprincipled *******.

[iNegUthenLol]

u mad when aliens dream about aliens....they dream about me?

Lulz

[audiodope2]

stopped reading at 600lights years away we never gettin there lol

why would "we" even want to go there? shyt there could be anything there

[DaGhoul]

lol...600 light years away...humans will NEVER get there.

Travel at light speed is pretty much impossible and even at light speed, it would take us 600 years to get there.

Humans will kill themselves off WAAAY before we even find any fathomable technology that could potentially get us to the planet.

Just sucks that options are so limited when we actually know there are legitimate earth-like planets "near" us.

Assuming you travel approaching the speed of light, the travelers will age much slower than people living on earth. How long you can stretch a human lifespan traveling at the speed of light, I don't know but see "time dilation" to see what I'm talking about.

[FuzzeWuzze]

wasn't there a report of a moon of one of the planets in our solar system possibly having life or water on it or something? Because of something in its atmosphere or something?

Anyways, holychit, dont really give a sh!t if its just plants, i wants aliens

Yes its Europa which is one of Jupiters moons, this isnt anything new...srs dont you *******s watch the Discovery channel?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa_%28moon%29