NASA finds 'new earth'

That's not quite how gravity works.
By being 3.5 times bigger than the earth it might weigh 3.5 times more but because it's larger there's also a bigger increase in the radius and thus that makes the gravitation weaker.
Jupiter is like 318 times bigger than the earth and the gravity is only 2½ times stronger or so because of this.

Yeah later I saw the stupidity of my comment, well we can always make it some sort of port where we can get water.

you die no less than 2-4 times trying to pass through a black hole with our current knowledge.

One theory is that if it hits you while you are on the event horizon of a new one being created, you die FOREVER.
jesus christ how horrifying. It's the only thing that sort of creeps me out about that Hadron Collider, because even if it's a tiny tiny chance, the risk of being trapped in an eternal death is NOT worth any gain they may have gotten out of it. Do that experiment in space or something, preferably in another solar system, lol.

Interesting. But as stated already.. If It can support life. Then possibly there's already life on it? That's what i would like to know before deciding it could be our future settlement.. If the lifeforms are anything like our own we would be killed as soon as we set foot on that planet and cut open for experiments before they take our ship and head back here for more labrats.

Makes me sad through, by the time we have the technology to perform lightspeed and travel outside of the solar system I would have died already. L> TARDIS

Hang on guys, if you wait roughly 50 years I'll have created the Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device by then.

Physics > evolution > lolevolution

Other forms of life may prevail, especially sea life, but other than that I don't really have confidence.

Hence the "Somehow" part of my comment.

Uhh, I'm pretty sure we've had one of these recently. Silver---something..
But yeah, until we solve the propulsion limitations, we ain't going nowhere.

Uhh, I'm pretty sure we've had one of these recently. Silver---something..
But yeah, until we solve the propulsion limitations, we ain't going nowhere.

This one? http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/17/...exoplanet/
I think we had a thread here, but couldn't find it (on first try ).

Hang on guys, if you wait roughly 50 years I'll have created the Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device by then.

I'll give you any amount of babies for that! just make it nowww!

This one? http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/17/...exoplanet/
I think we had a thread here, but couldn't find it (on first try ).

Yeah, much closer for emergency migration purposes.

It's very pretty

I do believe that we have already discovered many near-earth or earth-like planets o_O I don't know what makes this one special.

That's not quite how gravity works.
By being 2.5 times bigger than the earth it might weigh 2.5 times more but because it's larger there's also a bigger increase in the radius and thus that makes the gravitation weaker.
Jupiter is like 318 times bigger than the earth and the gravity is only 2½ times stronger or so because of this.

Jupiter is a gas giant; it's almost completely composed of gas. It's about 318 times HEAVIER than Earth, and has 1321 times the volume. Therefore its radius is about 11 times that of Earth's, which would make its gravitational field strength 2.64 times greater than that of Earth's. If it were a terrestrial planet rather than a gas giant, it would be much heavier and thus have an even greater gravitational field strength.

tl;dr Jupiter's not a good planet to compare Earth to.

Anyway, I'm still waiting for the guys in lab coats to come up with an efficient and cost-effective method to terraform Mars; it's much closer to us anyway.

Anyway, I'm still waiting for the guys in lab coats to come up with an efficient and cost-effective method to terraform Mars; it's much closer to us anyway.

Or we could go to venus, our closest, similar in size neighbour and we only have to make a sky city.
But people think is better to go to the belt and mine it.

Or maybe, we could just not outgrow and destroy the planet we already have.

Or maybe, we could just not outgrow and destroy the planet we already have.

We can prolong it's life, but we can never completely avoid it's destruction. To do that we would have to become self sufficient and renewable in every single aspect of consumption and if we did that, what's the point of colonization?

We can prolong it's life, but we can never completely avoid it's destruction. To do that we would have to become self sufficient and renewable in every single aspect of consumption and if we did that, what's the point of colonization?

You mean other then our rapidly growing population.

These types of things finding planets similar to ours are what make me mad that I wont ever see any of this stuff come to pass.

You mean other then our rapidly growing population.

These types of things finding planets similar to ours are what make me mad that I wont ever see any of this stuff come to pass.

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We seem to be very casual with the terminologies here.

F_gravity = G * m1*m1/r^2
It matters how massive a body is, not how big nor how heavy. In fact, the larger a planet with the same mass is, the less surface gravity it has.

F_gravity = G * m1*m2/r^2

Fixed it for you.

You mean other then our rapidly growing population.

These types of things finding planets similar to ours are what make me mad that I wont ever see any of this stuff come to pass.

That's what i was getting at, yes.