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• Thoughts on Gliese 581c, et al. - Bowser - 4/29/2007 10:40:31 PM
  • re: Thoughts on Gliese 581c, et al. - Pierre - 5/19/2007 1:31:46 AM
  • Here's an artist's depiction - phil - 5/2/2007 4:45:45 PM
    • re: Here's an artist's depiction. -Thanks, Phil! - Marcia - 5/2/2007 6:49:29 PM
      • re: Here's an artist's depiction. -Thanks, Phil! - phil - 5/3/2007 1:37:42 AM
  • Finally a Planet in the Habitable Zone. - The Bees - 5/1/2007 9:39:27 AM
  • I don't believe interstellar colonization is possible - SDF - 4/30/2007 10:11:29 PM
    • Whatever happened to those generation ships you designed? (n/t) - FrankC - 5/3/2007 5:39:07 PM
    • We can’t assume aliens will have the same life spans as we do. Or the same life requirements. - REB - 5/1/2007 12:41:06 PM
      • Even an inanimate object would probably be unrecognizable after travelling between the stars. - SDF - 5/1/2007 8:56:33 PM
        • Would explain the porosity - Adam - 5/20/2007 1:29:14 AM
    • Of course it's possible. - Lee - 5/1/2007 3:13:55 AM
      • A starship travelling at 0.1cee - SDF - 5/1/2007 8:53:31 PM
        • Gamma-ray bremstrahlung at 0.1 c??? - Adam - 5/20/2007 1:23:28 AM
        • A thermonuclear Orion could do it. - Lee - 5/2/2007 1:35:47 AM
        • There was a time when going to the Moon was impossible. - REB - 5/1/2007 9:31:11 PM
          • We haven't colonized the moon either - SDF - 5/1/2007 10:27:52 PM
        • And 0.02cee is 250-times faster than New Horizons, the fastest spacecraft ever (n/t) - SDF - 5/1/2007 9:03:04 PM
  • Thought-provoking indeed - McFly - 4/30/2007 8:22:58 PM
  • "we have the technology to get there" NOT - Sawyer - 4/30/2007 1:02:18 PM
  • Exoplanet hunters' Graal:Earth's twin - Raoul - 4/30/2007 7:29:29 AM
  • Odds of advanced intelligent life on a (relatively) nearby habitable planet are extremely remote. - Buck Galaxy - 4/30/2007 4:34:26 AM
    • Concerned about disease? - phil - 5/1/2007 1:05:04 AM
    • Don't drink the water. - ER - 4/30/2007 12:40:33 PM
      • ER has an excellent point - TB - 5/1/2007 4:45:21 AM
        • Then there is terraforming. - REB - 5/1/2007 12:59:05 PM
          • Maybe you could expand the radius of a planet...Without increasing the mass. - The Artist formerly known as Scott Evil - 5/2/2007 9:59:17 PM
            • We can do this one after we do the TOWG. - The Artist formerly known as Scott Evil - 5/2/2007 10:06:56 PM
        • re: ER has an excellent point - REB - 5/1/2007 12:51:05 PM
        • I just noticed that Sawyer made the same point. Sorry! (n/t) - TB - 5/1/2007 4:46:29 AM
    • That it's a remote possibility is a given. - Bowser - 4/30/2007 5:01:30 AM