NewScientist: Star next door may host a 'superhabitable' world

[Robert J. Niewiadomski]

Source: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24980-star-next-door-may-host-a-superhabitable-world.html#.Uu4tnD15Ogs

Earth may be our home, but another planet even cosier for life could be orbiting the star next door. A detailed analysis of what might make planets suitable for life says that Alpha Centauri B (http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn22388-first-planet-found-in-star-system-next-door.html), the star closest to our sun, would be the perfect star to host a "superhabitable" planet – a world of islands, shallow seas and gentle slopes, where the conditions needed to support a diverse array of life forms would persist for up to 10 billion years. But the near-paradise would come at a cost to visitors from Earth: the pull of gravity would be about one-quarter stronger than on our home turf.

We normally assume that the best places to look for alien life are Earth-sized planets orbiting sun-like stars. But our best models for habitability consider only a few criteria, such as the planet's size and distance from its star, seeking rocky worlds like Earth in similar orbits to our own.

"But no one had ever touched the question of whether other places may be even more benign environments than Earth provides,"(...)

[Sunny-side-up]

Well maybe when we have our full Anti-Gravity suites, we could live in orbit and transmute up and down, using same said Anti-Gravity tech :) for our ships!

Would be interesting to see the animal life on such a planet, smaller than us but stronger I guess? Hmm!

[Gardener]

Or our full anti-gravity consciousness (after clearing all crap/gravity ).

[Sunny-side-up]

Or our full anti-gravity consciousness (after clearing all crap/gravity ).

Oh Yes Gardener ;)
Maybe even if we got to that other planet (Freedom Planet ha) we might awaken more of our true selves!

[ghostrider]

They will discover our solar system has more than 12 planets ... they are finnaly catching up ...

[donk]

When James Gilliland and Jana (his "work" partner that brings balance to the transpersonal healing session thingys) did their thing on me, they found one of my past lives that needed to be clear was on Alpha Centauri.

What made me bring this up is that you don't hear too much about it in the new age/channeling/contactees stuff (or maybe I just missed it all), and they were kinda at loss to even tell me about it.

The 7th dimensional Andromedans, the lemurians and peladians? They're on first name basis with a ton of them (and other races) and can give you a good idea of how they perceive them...but AC--it seemed to throw them for a bit of a loop. They said they barely ever run into it and they seem to be third or fourth (or in between) humanoids a lot like us.

Maybe I'll write them and see if they have insight since then (the summer), I just found it interesting. That and the fact outside of jokes (AC seems to be choice for jokes against contactees, prob cuz it sounds so "spacey"), the only other reference I can remember is disney's the Last Starfighter, where they recruited an earth video game superstar to be their messiah...anyone have any "esoteric insight" into AC?

[Tesla_WTC_Solution]

they've discovered Caladan, from Dune.

Caladan is a fictional place where the Greek scion family, the Atreides, went and established a peaceful empire based on rice growing and melon and fish farms.

but it's only a matter of time before we find the Spice imo

/blueeyes lol

[778 neighbour of some guy]

only a matter of time before we find the Spice imo

Imma try me some o dat sj!t and kick some Harkonnen @ss, jeez I love Dune, read the books a couple of times since I was a child, seen the movies too, deserves a thread btw;)

[Tesla_WTC_Solution]

there's one about how his son ruined the series, lol!

[Bill Ryan]

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This is an important release from New Scientist, which is a highly respected mainstream science journal.

Read this, from Project Camelot's first interview with Henry Deacon (extract)

http://projectcamelot.org/livermore_physicist.html






Henry: Alpha Centauri and Promixa Centauri are close together. Alpha Centauri has a solar system very much like ours, but it's older. The planets are in stable orbits. There are three inhabited planets, the second, third and fourth. No, wait, the fifth, I think. Second, third and fifth.

Bill: That’s astonishing… you knew this professionally? I mean, you came across this in the course of your work?

Henry: Yes. This is known. It’s comparatively easy to get there, less than five light years away, and that’s, you know, it's right next door to us. The… people… there are very human-like. They're not Grays, they’re like us. The human form is very common in the universe.

[Tesla_WTC_Solution]

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This is an important release from New Scientist, which is a highly respected mainstream science journal.

Read this, from Project Camelot's first interview with Henry Deacon (extract)

http://projectcamelot.org/livermore_physicist.html






Henry: Alpha Centauri and Promixa Centauri are close together. Alpha Centauri has a solar system very much like ours, but it's older. The planets are in stable orbits. There are three inhabited planets, the second, third and fourth. No, wait, the fifth, I think. Second, third and fifth.

Bill: That’s astonishing… you knew this professionally? I mean, you came across this in the course of your work?

Henry: Yes. This is known. It’s comparatively easy to get there, less than five light years away, and that’s, you know, it's right next door to us. The… people… there are very human-like. They're not Grays, they’re like us. The human form is very common in the universe.

that is really amazing - very timely release, too - so exciting, hope we get to see pictures at least someday,
of this new world!

[Robert J. Niewiadomski]

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This is an important release from New Scientist, which is a highly respected mainstream science journal.

Read this, from Project Camelot's first interview with Henry Deacon (extract)

http://projectcamelot.org/livermore_physicist.html






Henry: Alpha Centauri and Promixa Centauri are close together. Alpha Centauri has a solar system very much like ours, but it's older. The planets are in stable orbits. There are three inhabited planets, the second, third and fourth. No, wait, the fifth, I think. Second, third and fifth.

Bill: That’s astonishing… you knew this professionally? I mean, you came across this in the course of your work?

Henry: Yes. This is known. It’s comparatively easy to get there, less than five light years away, and that’s, you know, it's right next door to us. The… people… there are very human-like. They're not Grays, they’re like us. The human form is very common in the universe.

that is really amazing - very timely release, too - so exciting, hope we get to see pictures at least someday,
of this new world!We may see pictures of cities and other ground features soon :) (~10 years imho)
Here is another piece from NewScientist: Laser makes ultra-light mirror out of tiny beads
Source: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24897-laser-makes-ultralight-mirror-out-of-tiny-beads.html

Shooting a laser at polystyrene beads, scientists have made a mirror that is held together by light. The creation could be a step towards putting ultra-light mirrors in space that would be big enough to see continents and forests on planets orbiting far-off stars.

Current space telescopes have limited vision because is it costly and complicated to send large, heavy mirrors into orbit. The mirror on NASA's premiere planet hunter, the Kepler space telescope, is just 1.4 metres across and cannot see planets directly. Instead Kepler spots the tiny changes in brightness when a world crosses in front of its host star.

When NASA's James Webb Space Telescope launches in a few years, it will carry the largest mirror yet into space: a 6.5-metre behemoth made of 18 interlocking segments.(...)

If the technology holds up, he envisions sending up an array of laser-trapped mirrors that would act collectively like a single large one.

"Ten or 100 kilometres may become feasible in this way, and this can provide direct images of exo-Earths, where continents and forested areas such as the Amazon Basin become directly visible," he says.James Webb Space Telescope (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Webb_Space_Telescope) is scheduled for launch in 2018 and the goal is to keep it operational for 10 years.

Combine this with last year announcement from NASA to resurrect "warp drive" research project :)
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?62469-NASA-is-building-a-warp-drive...-Again--&p=717185&viewfull=1#post717185 And it may end up with "official" disclosure :)

I know, i know. They already know we are not alone but pretend it yet to be discovered ;) Seeing this winding up "slowly" in msm is somehow heartwarming for me :)