Solar system like ours found

if, hypothetically speaking, the planets in that system supported life already, what exactly would our entire relation system become? because i know that if we find life there, we'd go mess around on the planet, and every country on ours would want in on it. but what about the life on those other planets? would they fight us? would relationships between our own country improve? i just don't know how ready our entire earth is to accept potential life on another planet. our scientists love to probe at things, and making probing our first priority on another planet just doesn't seem like a smart move.

but otherwise, that's pretty cool.

i wonder if people are sitting on a planet orbiting Epsilon Eridani chatting on their version of current looking at us thinking 'so THAT's what we'll look like in another 3.7 billion years...'

ok, maybe not.

Do you think they have WMD's?

We better take 'em out -- NOW, before a Dem can vote against it saying it is not necessary.

No WMD's?

Damn!

There must be way to get there, if we aren't already. It sounds inevitable considering the human condition. However this young star most likely doesn't even have dinosaurs yet, plenty of time for us to shape it. We should send a rocket full of pot seeds up, by the time we get there the Planet will be Ready to HOTBOX.

Shall we go then? Who`s ready? Got your passport?

I thought Morning Star was Satans Angelic name?

There are no such thing as aliens if they are real wouldn't we have seen them by now.There like elf's there were made up to scare little kids other people like to mess with other people's mind's some people take it to far the make corny video's to fool other people.And that is not an alien solar system its an other galaxy.

Bu$h / McCain's initial comment:

NUKE THAT SHIT!

Or...there could be a massive mirror just outside our solar system and the scientist have just seen a reflection...bummer.

If they are only 10.5 light years away, that means they have been watching new episodes of sienfield for a couple of years now. we should direct all of our seti radio telescopes toward that solar system and see what we hear.

Maybe their DM felt it was time for an exspansion pack

Actually that is awesome. I always said we arent the only living creatures in this solar system

Maybe GOD is preparing to either ship all the Dems OR GOP there....its a joke, lighten up. The universe is so AWE inspiring.....when I was little I used to wish I could float into it and see where it stopped, IF it had a wall up somewhere or was it infinite? Hey, I was only 12 so I was a pretty smart girl if I do say!

"terraforming" dude stop playing spore. we do not need to fuck up any more planets. I think we should stay on this planet and ride it out. Massive loss of life or not. We all cheat death everyday, with medicine, preserved food, roofs over our heads. We need to work on what we can do to make this planet a better place, not go stick our dick into something 10 light years away.

This is great!

This is the new world orders goal. Find new territory to expand to. Solar colonialism is the future. When do I get my space fighter?

thats just awesome... wish i was an astronaut.

if were gonna be terraforming, mars is the place. drop off some machines that burn alot of the harmful elements in the atmosphere to create a greenhouse effect by producing CO2. in about 300 years, maybe theres enough CO2 to drop off some plants that can handle the residual harmful elements and start production of a livable atmosphere. and with gravity almost 3 times as strong as our own, after living there for 3-4 generations, humans would be a hell of alot stronger.

Terra forming has nothing to do with changing a planet's rotation. Sheesh! In consists of changing the existing environment to best suit our needs. At its very base, we inject into the atmosphere hardy plant seeds, plants that can thrive and grow in numerous conditions (such as algae and lichens) to develop a base... and the other extreme, a series of nano devices would be required.

Besides, how does this even relate to the original article?

what genius put a picture of a galaxy as a header for an article on a solar system?

God Save Us All...

It was just a matter of time before such a 'solar system' was found. No one can really visualize just how vast is the cosmos ----there must be millions if not 'billions and billions' such systems. (homage to Carl Sagan R.I.P.) A fairly predictable percentage of them will have planets on which life in one form another has surely evolved. Of those, a smaller percentage will have evolved civilizations and intelligences equal and in many cases superior to ours.

I wonder what the price of gas is there

Alright you guys, mark this on your maps. We'll be coming back to this place when we screw our first solar system up bad enough.

Shit they found it, now I gotta go start building eden somewhere else. Why do I always build them 10.5 light years away?

i wonder if they are as self destructive as we are...

i doubt it

well thats a little awesome.

When can I move in?!

That's exciting. Now we can worry all about other planets and life forms and completely ignore our own. Seriously though, that is an interesting discovery, but it's probable that we won't have any kind of access to that sort of space travel during our lifetimes, let alone whatever technologies we'd need for terraforming.

When can we go and visit our second families?

Maybe it's bizzaro earth

cool, when are we going to invade their solar system in the name of terrorism?

This is really fantastic and I'm glad we have technology that enables us to see this miraculous imagery. One thing I will say though is that I hope we will allocate just as much resource for exploring our own deeply mysterious existence. It's been said that we know more about the surface of the moon than we do about our own oceans.

seriously, changing the way a planet spins...don't we mess up our own planet enough?

But I'd love to see more info about this system

Yeah, somewhere out there, there is another me!

it is mankind's destiny to explore and understand the universe.

and i don't believe terraforming is the answer, and you can't manipulate the direction a planet spins, because that would throw off the dynamics of the relative solar system, and perhaps more than that..

Actually, 10.5 light years means we're seeing it as of 10.5 years ago, not "100millions years ago". Star travel is as out of reach now as moon travel was in 1950, but it won't be so forever, if only someone can do to Einstein's math what Einstein did to Newton's.

wtf does that have to do with food.
And second of all, what we see in those images are 10.5 light years old. So for all we know the star exploded 100millions years ago and we won't see it happen here for another 100 millions years. So even if we do find a place that is compleyely suitable for human life, it probably doesn't exist anymore, or it exists SUPER WELL.
I think we should start worrying about how to terraform and or make our own planets for living.