Ooh, how I would like to move there and start up a new world.
Take some seeds with me (have you guys seen seeds that have been in space btw? the vegetables/plants grow far bigger than usual), and just build a small community that is based upon helping each other. Explore the surrounding areas and live in a pure environment that hasn't been ruined by us humans

On a more serious note,
that is a very interesting discovery.
Was this a part of the 'Extremely Large European Telescope' release that was promised for today?

Ideally I think finding a race at the same tech level as us would be the best. Once we confirm each others existence the goal would be to eventually meet up. Would he a hell of a space race.

Now we just need to discover how to go into warp speed...

Very cool and has my imagination already running.

This is what people do not understand about exploration and science like this, though it provides no real benefits in the immediate. What it does do is expand humanities mind and provide a fuller more enriching life for ALL of us down here. Regardless of starving Somalians or high living hedge fund managers, discoveries like this let anyone who gives it a moments thought, some wonder.

It's probably taken already.

Are we going to do another North American Conquest like the europeans did? That will go over well.

How's the air up there anyhow?

Estimate and suggestions. nothing more. No matter what, it will probably take another 300+ years before we can deep space travel. and the planet gravity is way stronger than earth, another issue

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Originally posted by Jordan River
Estimate and suggestions. nothing more. No matter what, it will probably take another 300+ years before we can deep space travel. and the planet gravity is way stronger than earth, another issue

Why has space travel made so little progress since the moon landings?

From first powered flight to a man on the moon was 66 years, and they didn't have the benefit of powerful computers.

I'm not convinvced that it hasn't moved forward, it makes no sense that they just stopped. But TPTB have become so paranoid they feel the need to classify every project as black.

I refuse to believe that the ISS is the best they could come up with in the last 20 years, and mothballing the shuttles without a replacement doesn't add up either.

Wouldn't it be nice if our leaders decided to just tell us the truth for once?