Cosmos magazine reports that French researchers think they’ve found the first planet other than Earth capable of sustaining life, concluding that it probably has a dense carbon dioxide atmosphere and that “the climate of Gliese 581d is not only stable against collapse but warm enough to have oceans, clouds and rainfall.” Yes! I just set some coal on fire to watch that shit burn.
It orbits the star Gliese 581 in the so-called Goldilocks zone (not too hot; not too cold), which means that water is likely to exist there in liquid form. Gliese 581d is about twice the size of Earth, if seven times its mass. It’s a neighbour of Gliese 581g, or Zarmina’s World, but unlike that planet, it is certain that this one exists. Sweet! I just stabbed a panda!
It may also be “tidally locked” with one side always facing its sun in permanent daylight. Which will be great for my tan! I just poured mercury down the drain! I just drank some toxic waste! I just shat in the ocean! I just punched the Pope in his ugly Popey nose!
Wait. Oh crap. Apparently it takes 300,000 years to travel 20 light years. Which may be a problem for me.
7 times the mass of earth? The force of gravity up there must be hard on the joints.
That's ok you could just use a bong!
HA! :D
I can't believe that got past the moderators. Not that it was bad or offensive. It's just that it was a Dad joke.
da-dun..tshhhh
Yeah, Seven times our worlds mass, I think someones fudging the figures if they think it's habitable...
sweet now we have found a planet we can actually go to, now lets just invent FTL travel already.