Welcome to our new home! Gliese 581

We would need something akin to Star Treks 'Prime Directive' before we head out to other planets.

Otherwise history will repeat.

Originally posted by Arkady
let's nuke it, I bet there's terrorists on Gliese 581 that would probably appreciate us liberating their oil and expanding their freemarket.

Don't be insane. We need the land.

Perhaps they could use some blankets?

Originally posted by rusethorcain

Originally posted by Arkady
let's nuke it, I bet there's terrorists on Gliese 581 that would probably appreciate us liberating their oil and expanding their freemarket.

Don't be insane. We need the land.

Perhaps they could use some blankets?

ahhh what ! Blankets you say! ? like the Diseased Blankets that Commander in Chief of the British Army Jeffery Amherst Gave to the Native Americans During the French and Indian War !!!!!

Hopefully The Intelligent Beings of Gliese 581 Will Refuse... as saying Yes we have something like that no thanks What We have is better...


Yeah Bio War on a Different Star System Planet! WAR OF THE WORLDS IN Reverse ! Literately ....

Maybe there like the NAVI (AVATAR) I can See AVATAR FANS Are Eating up the Hype of Gliese 581
And Pandorum Fans Too .. Kinda Strange as Scientist are Pretty much Sure theirs Habitable Life in the Gliese 581 Solar System ... and its Just been Announced about Gliese 581 Could have Life recently and those Movie Avatar (Pandora) AND Pandorum Has Been Out Last Year ... ? Makes you wanna Say Hmmm...

How Long Has the Scientist Actually Known this about Gliese 581 G Before the Information was Released to the Public

Could Chance for Life on Gliese 581g Actually Be “100%”?
www.universetoday.com...

Originally posted by _Highlander_
We would need something akin to Star Treks 'Prime Directive' before we head out to other planets.

Otherwise history will repeat.

We have a prime directive already...

SURVIVE at all costs

So, in a nutshell, 2012 is real.

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We would need something akin to Star Treks Warp Drive to even think about going anywhere.

Prime Directive..pfffffft..as if.

Originally posted by rusethorcain
Is this the planet that will be our new home?

Highly unlikely. There are so many other stars that are closer to us than Gliese 581. It doesn't even make it on to this list of the 50 nearest stars. And just to put the distance into perspective. At the average speed that Voyager 1 has traveled at over the past 33 years, it would take it over 330,000 years to reach Gliese 581. Plus no one knows for sure if Gliese 581g is even habitable or not and I'm sure closer/better candidates will pop up over time.

I did a few calculations.

If this planet is 20.3 lightyears away and we have a travelling spead of 40,000km/h, then it will take us 547,721 years to reach there. Thats roughly 3 times the time that our species Homo sapien has currently existed for. In that time we would probably evolve to survive in a metal spaceship on lazy boys and would certainly die when we got there due to the hostile environment. Either that or we would have invented teleporation by then anyway and would arrive to find that the whole of earth just teleported across and we have been sat in a box for half a million year for no reason. They could stick some cameras in the ship and make a big brother future series, where you get ejected into outer space when evicted for peeing in the shower. Id watch it.

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Or the aliens could come and rescue us from the burning ember we turn the earth into by 2012 and bring us all there strapped into faster than light-speed ships drinking space smoothies.

And our pets too.

Unfortunately we might cook up something like a warp drive sooner the we would enact an idea such as the prime directive. Power without perception. Before we let ourselves out of the pen, we should hope that we calm down a little first. Otherwise we will be eating macca's on other planets, which really, is a terrible state of affairs.

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Mhm, go ahead, sell them whiskey, push in your crap food, bring lawyers and enslave them. The same you did with Native Americans.

You have a terrible, terrible attitude, may God help you.