Space News - Habitable Terrestrial Exoplanet Confirmed Around Nearest Star!

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1. Well, yeah, sure
2. I'm existed to go there and poo on that planet.
3. No. It's starts with a lie and continues lying. "this is proximas B".. uhh, no it isn't. We don't know what it looks like. " it is in the habitable zone" we don't know that either. "it has liquid water" another lie. We don't know if it has water and if it's even liquid. We don't know shit about it because we are 4.2 light years away from it. They can't take a picture of it or know how far from the star it is or where the habitable Zone is. They detect a minute amount of light difference which makes then believe It's a planet orbiting the star. Since when do you quit being scientific and just believe everything you're told???
4. Discovery of Earth like planets with the possibility of harboring life is exciting news. It would lead, eventually, to an attempt at exploration, and more far fetched, seeding another world with human and other Earth species. There is one subject which always seems to avoid discussion over the romanticized idea of colonizing habitable worlds; biological comparability.. If a planet can support life as we understand it, it will. I have no doubt that other life forms are found on other planets. What is difficult to believe is whether the biological elements on a new world can allow colonization with humans with our own alien biological characteristics. It is likely that even with a compatible atmosphere, temperature and gravity, indigenous micro-organisms could present confrontations which cannot be overcome by our Earthly immune systems. This has happened with old world civilizations and how they infected the new world, smallpox for example or the plague from the far east arriving in Europe in the second millennium. I think biological incompatibility and medical factors would prevent humans ever colonizing other planets or vice versa. War of the Worlds got it right, except the alien's micro-organisms could have caused humans to die too.
5. Expected a video of Fraser in the woods, surrounded by bears. Disappoint.
6. That is some great news! Another good reason to launch James Webb Space Telescope !
7. Can I comment one thing what happens when we get there with that Lazer Power Craft and when we get there there's Life and what if they don't come in peace and just think of earth as like a gold mine
8. If it orbit's the habitable zone of a red dwarf, doesn't it mean it's tidally locked to it's star? Is there a chance of life? And if there is on the small areas between the day and the night side, is there a chance it would ever evolve into something more than just bacteria?
   
   Also, 4.2 light years is still 39,707,870,813,049.6 km away. I don't know what technology they may develop but I don't think we can realistically have the technology to go there within a lifetime, for the next 300 years.
9. I'm only 18 and I hope I get to see a glimpse of this exoplanet before my life time lapse.
10. Guys you know what I'm thinkin? We send Mathew mc conahay to check it out
11. it might be inhabited already as time is different when you're looking at something from a few thousand lightyears. to other planets we might be a dust rock. but due to how long the light takes to travel and the expanding universe we don't really know what's on other planets. what's. really on there
12. Could we not analyze the atmosphere from here for traces of CO2?
13. It could possibly be the perfect planet to colonise. If I remember correctly, dwarf stars last for up to a trillion years.
    How far away are we from the telescope technology that will allow us to actually see what these planets look like? Or is it impossible and we will need to send probes?
14. This may draw more attention to Project Starshot. Now we have a very tempting target to observe, study and capture images of!
15. how do they tell the difference between a rocky planet and a gas planet so far away? yes the colours but how to know the gas is not produced by a rocky planet like earth does. if you were on that planet looking at earth... how to know earth is a rocky planet?
16. so , i have a few questions : do we have a vessel capable of maintaining communication at that distance and reaching the objecive in the next 30 year? and isn't it about 4 lightyears away ? and won't that dwarf star emit gamma rays enough to kill people?
17. It's in a tidal lock, so only one side ever sees daylight, it's four light years away, and it's so close to the star that the radiation is insanely high. Don't get excited. It's highly unlikely that we're ever getting beyond our own solar system.
18. Too far away
19. Does it have moons?
20. That's where the grays come from