Possibly Closest Earth Like Planet Found

[W_L]

This is awesome news that might escape most people's radars with the struggles and conflicts in the world:

 

http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/24/health/proxima-b-centauri-rocky-planet-habitable-zone-neighbor-star/index.html

 

Being only 4.2 light years away near Proxima b in Centauri binary system, 1.3 times the size of earth, and with average temps potentially with atmosphere at 86 to 103 F degrees, it should be under observation for future exploration. Plus, the ultraviolet radiation could make for some interesting biological differences, if there is life (a Blue skinned 6 legged man, maybe, )

 

Of course, if like most human history, when we get there, it will end up like this:

 

https://youtu.be/xM_RnDxn5rY

 

Who's with me in calling this planet Pandora

Edited August 27, 2016 by W_L

[JamesSavik]

I'm packed.

[Mikiesboy]

Okay pandora is fine ... hopefully if we do go there, we'll take some lessons from here with us. 

[Bill W]

Okay pandora is fine ... hopefully if we do go there, we'll take some lessons from here with us. 

 

Let's just hope they're the right lessons then!

[Mikiesboy]

Let's just hope they're the right lessons then!

Yes Bill, you're right there. 

[W_L]

Yes Bill, you're right there.

True

 

Like most scifi and western seem to forget the most obvious

 

You make fewer enemies with blankets filled with smallpox than you would with an army of gun toting grunts

 

Hopefully in 150 years we are more enlighten on interspecies relations.

[Drew Espinosa]

It's crazy to think that with our current technology, it'd take us millennia just to reach that planet. Dam... I wish I was immortal, so I could live to see that day!