Gliese 581d may well turn out to be habitable
albeit mostly desert and with twice Earth's gravity.

I imagine house prices will still be quite steep.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Tue 17 May 2011, 13:12, 3 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

I saw that, I am constantly amazed at how much information
you can get from something we can barely see with the most powerful telescopes. Or in most cases, can't see at all.
(PsychoChomp, Tue 17 May 2011, 13:14, Reply)

Well, 581g turned out to be noise rather than an actual planet
so it's all pretty tentative still.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Tue 17 May 2011, 13:16, Reply)

You get many points
for the most random reply I can remember
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 17 May 2011, 13:16, Reply)

Happened to be looking at a link to Science Daily
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/05/110516080124
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Tue 17 May 2011, 13:21, Reply)

ts;dc
(too sciencey; didn't click)
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 17 May 2011, 13:23, Reply)

I heard about this earlier.
I was thinking this should be the sort of planet we should send a probe to. It will take a hell of a long time, but I reckon it is doable. If no life is found, then the probe should drop loads of plant seeds and we will terraform the place. Drop the CO2 levels, reduce the greenhouse effect, and rescue Ripley.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 17 May 2011, 13:25, Reply)

It's 20 light years away
So any probe we send will almost certainly break before it gets there, and even if it didn't any signals it sends back won't reach here for twenty years after it arrives, which will be several hundred years after we've all died of starvation and nuclear war.
(Bazongaloid, Tue 17 May 2011, 13:28, Reply)

The probe would not need to tell us about it. If we left, say 100 years later, out tech will have improved.
Look at Pioneer and Voyager, still operating and leaving the solar system right now.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 17 May 2011, 13:33, Reply)

house prices hills
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 17 May 2011, 13:32, Reply)