New habitable planets found!

[Adrian@TORQEN]

 

"The summary of this is that we have found two planets, in the habitable zone of another star, and they are the best candidates found to date for habitable planets"

 

Edited April 19, 2013 by octet

[The Chubby Ninja]

Watched a good documentary last weekend on youtube called 'evacuate earth' was about trying to get to some of these places. Id recommend a watch

[Jaz 350z]

This isn't the first planet we have found that we believe could support water in liquid form, but without better fuels its all moot. By the time we got to Mars (150-300 days) the suns radiation would have probably given the travellers cancer. (first planet that could support water : Kepler 22b incidentally 600 light years away, lots further than Mars)

 

http://www.theregist...fast_mars_trip/

 

^ we need this first.

 

Very cool though, how far mankind has come along in such a short time.

[JetSet]

69b looks on the big side for terrestial life to me, but would probably be O.K for water creatures. If it's a rocky planet I'd estimate gravity would be at least 4x that of Earth and more like 8 to 16x. 69a would be at least double if those estimated sizes are correct.

 

 

Pete