 Parzival  | 16 Oct 2012 9:11 p.m. PST |
link 1.1 Earth mass, but too close to Alpha Centauri B for habitation… but astronomers suspect that it is part of a larger planetary system that could indeed have a planet (or planets) in the habitable zone. Could the SF authors be right? Could our nearby sister system support life of its own? Suddenly we have a place to send a probe and expect a reasonable time frame for an answer. Amazing. |
| SECURITY MINISTER CRITTER | 16 Oct 2012 9:25 p.m. PST |
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| kyoteblue | 16 Oct 2012 9:45 p.m. PST |
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| Bowman | 17 Oct 2012 6:31 a.m. PST |
Very cool, but the planet sure sounds like a good approximation of Hell. "If there are any inhabitants there, they're made of asbestos." 
…..but astronomers suspect that it is part of a larger planetary system that could indeed have a planet (or planets) in the habitable zone. SETI has been targeting Alpha Centauri for a while now. Wait till the James Webb telescope is launched in 2018! That'll rock our understanding of the Universe. link |
 Saginaw | 17 Oct 2012 6:59 a.m. PST |
Gee. I wonder how the Robinsons are doing after all this time? |
| skippy0001 | 17 Oct 2012 9:18 a.m. PST |
If we see THEM, THEY see us…. |
| Caesar | 17 Oct 2012 1:38 p.m. PST |
"No one would have believed in the early years of the 21st century that our world was being watched by intelligences greater than our own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns, *they* observed and studied, the way a man with a microscope might scrutinize the creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. With infinite complacency, men went to and fro about the globe, confident of our empire over this world. Yet across the gulf of space, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic regarded our planet with envious eyes and slowly, and surely, drew their plans against us." |
| gweirda | 17 Oct 2012 2:10 p.m. PST |
If you can't imagine the proper voice in your head, use this… link (select track 2 from the Playlist) |
| Gunfreak | 17 Oct 2012 4:24 p.m. PST |
If there is life around Alpha Cenaturi, it can't be that innteligent, or we would have gotten a space probe by now saying there is a plan for a interstate highway and we got 50 years to complane before they demolish our planet. |
| skippy0001 | 17 Oct 2012 7:49 p.m. PST |
Caesar&gweirda-that was great! I still think we're a quarentined blue dot stuck in the armpit of the Galaxy. |
| Bowman | 18 Oct 2012 4:05 a.m. PST |
Alpha Centauri is a little far to send an invasion fleet, isn't it? |
| kreoseus2 | 18 Oct 2012 6:20 a.m. PST |
I wonder when Londo will show up to say "Hi" ? |
| Gunfreak | 18 Oct 2012 6:52 a.m. PST |
How ever, it does show that planetery systems are probebly more common then uncommon, if both our solar system and our clostest neighbor star both have plants, then either it's a big coninsidence, or most stars do infact have some plants around them. |
| richarDISNEY | 18 Oct 2012 7:45 a.m. PST |
Didn't we learn from the movie "Battleship"???
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 javelin98 | 18 Oct 2012 11:21 a.m. PST |
Fortunately, Sid Meier has already developed a simulation for us to use to learn how to approach colonization of Alpha Centauri. |
 20thmaine | 22 Oct 2012 2:37 p.m. PST |
I think we've always known it would have a planet – evidence all the generation star ships of SF heading that way ! But seriously, it is really cool that it does have a system. |
