Solar system like ours found

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.

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.

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..

Yeah, somewhere out there, there is another me!

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

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.

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

Maybe it's bizzaro earth

When can we go and visit our second families?

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 I move in?!

well thats a little awesome.

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

i doubt it

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

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.

I wonder what the price of gas is there

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.

God Save Us All...

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

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?

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.

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

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?

This is great!

"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.