‘100 percent’ chance for life on newly found planet? This Just In Blogs
As AGW seeming evades sensible changes by humanity, I’m forced to wonder at what point the smart play is to dedicate the resources to explore and occupy that planet. Also at it’s size I presume it has a far longer day. Maybe 48 or 60 hours each. Would we adapt to that in a few generations, and become beings that sleep 48 and are awake 48?
Gliese 581g may be the new Earth.
A team of astronomers from the University of California and the Carnegie Institute of Washington say they’ve found a planet like ours, 20 light years (120 trillion miles) from Earth, where the basic conditions for life are good.
“The chances for life on this planet are 100 percent,” Steven Vogt, a UC professor of astronomy and astrophysics says. “I have almost no doubt about it.”