[valkyry1]

The planet-hunting business, good work when you can get it

[DannyTN]

And if we find an inhabitable second earth, and we go there, how long until we forget? How many generations focused on survival until the evidence of having come from another planet is lost? How many generations until we imagine that we evolved there?

The story of having come from another Earth, will be passed down, just like the story of our own Creation. But will scientific minds there accept it after 1000 years? or 6000?

[djf]

Until we can at least bring a soil sample back from Mars, I think we oughta hold off on the “life found in another solar system” announcements...

[Dallas59]

They need to continue to search and learn...but I don't think we'll ever go to them...

[Prophet in the wilderness]

What’s the closes star to ours ? .... and how many light years would it take to just to get there ? about 100 light years ? or more ? and if we did find a earth like planet ? ... would it be 1000 light years away ? 100,000 light years away ? .... yeah... I’ll say that we are stuck here on this present Earth.

[count-your-change]

Already been done...At least in a t.v. series several years ago called Earth 2 or some such. Really crummy show as I recall and was mercifully killed.

[itsthejourney]

Easy. Just ask the libs what planet they live on.

[Crazieman]

ping, later continual read

[jakerobins]

We might find a planet that could sustain human life and have a breathable atmorphere somewhere in the solar system. However the EARTH is unique and was created by GOD specificly for us. We could never recreate this planet exactly. I believe that we are on Earth for a reason and the planet was created to support humans. The plants and animals thrive so Humans can thrive as well. There may be life on other planets. They would probably be very physically different so they could adapt to the planets conditions.

[Larry Lucido]

We’re gonna need one. My closets are already bursting.

[SunkenCiv]

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[KevinDavis]

I say 50 years we will find one and I say at least 2100 we will have FTL...

[Red Steel]

When are we going to find the planet Vulcan? It’s orbiting around Gliese ? ;-)

[bert]

one thing we can be sure of, Slartibartfast is hard at work designing the fiords

[onedoug]

...Long time....

[CodeToad]

If we find one can we just keep it a secret and just quitely leave?

[dfwgator]

Where is Slartibartfast when we need him?

[mrsmith]

We’ll find it as soon as we build it.

Energy and materials are plentiful, we provide the ‘intelligent design’ and work. Voila: a “Second Earth”.

Looking for one is like looking for money left laying around...

[anymouse]

So we find another habitable planet multiple light years away, what are we going to do about it? We don't have the space-faring capability to get there in the foreseeable future.

Worse still, should their be a sufficiently advanced civilization living there for us to notice, they likely have a greater space-faring capability than we do AND greater military capability.

Should we spot them first before they spot us, we had better put all of our resources into revolutionary space access and bigger badder weapons than they are likely to have. Don't want to bring a laser to a phaser fight. ;)

[Thunder90]

PING!!!