X-O Planet Ping!.....................
DANG! They found my home planet! We thought you guys were at least a century from this. Bummer.
I’m gonna get called home early. I might as well start packing. Gotta join the armada.
Baltimore? Maybe Detroit
Water vapor? Do they not realize that water vapor is essentially carbon dioxide? Holy crap.
The news just keeps getting worse and worse about this nightmare world. No, not a place for "us," even in the far distant future when we may be able to travel such distances.
Yeah, but I bet it doesn’t have Global Warming!
Gas giant...you mean like Jerry Nadler?
They found water so it must be a better place than here/s
So in reality, they haven't found a planet with water. But beyond that, using one of the fastest space crafts ever developed, the Voyager 1 space probe, it would take roughly 1,736,809 years to travel 100 light years, traveling at its maximum velocity of 38,612 mph. We would still be 173,681 years away. The entire 1 way trip would be 1,910,490 years.
Let’s go!
Is this speculation or has it been fact checked by Snopes?
Yes, life as we know it on earth, depends on water. It is possible that other lifeforms can exist very comfortably without a drop of water.
I’ll visit it when I have my new body.
Let us convince those who hate America, money well spent with the hopes that they may encounter creatures like alien
The diameter of K2-18b is twice that of Earth, and has 8 times the mass of Earth. K2-18b is an exoplanet orbiting the red dwarf star K2-18 every 33 days, at 13 million miles away from its red dwarf sun, compared to Mercury’s orbit at 36 million miles away from our sun.
Thus it is possible that K2-18b is tidally locked by the star’s gravity, leaving one side of K2-18b always facing the star and the other side always facing away, like perpetual night.
Thus, despite the usual media hype, this planet is not likely habitable.