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"With a dense carbon dioxide atmosphere -- a likely scenario on such a large planet -- the climate of Gliese 581d is not only stable against collapse but warm enough to have oceans, clouds and rainfall," France's National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) said in a press release.
For budding travellers, though, Gliese 581d would "still be a pretty strange place to visit," the CNRS said.
Originally posted by OneLife
Splendid. Running from our Mother Earth to another planet just because we screwed Mother Earth will fix everything. We won't have learned the lessons of not #ing up our environment if we go there and mess up Father Gliese's environment..
Originally posted by boo1981
reply to post by NowanKenubi
Where can i get tickets to this new planet???
Great find op, wonder how many more they will find near to our place in the universe.
They are $100 each and you have to provide your own transportation.
Originally posted by NowanKenubi
reply to post by Chrisfishenstein
They are $100 each and you have to provide your own transportation.
Funny! I see you have some politician blood in your body... Will you run for President once there?
I just thought... I f it can harbor life... Does it, right now? We could get there and be welcomed as the Aliens.
We'd be called the Coloreds.
I wonder if we would be acting like what we read from old texts here on Earth...