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[dippy]

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070502.html

[Vultima]

"The planet orbits the faint star Gliese 581, which is 20.5 light-years away in the constellation Libra. " its not 100 light years away but that is still a lot

And still impossible to reach in a life time via the transportation we have.

What about a scooter with 5millions rockets up his ass

[Herman169]

idk if you can say it's completely impossible to make it there in a 100 years, look how fast technology is increaseing and it only increases faster. 

[gb987]

stop copying the same bloody joke, the starbucks one was a little bit funny, but just saying the same thing with mcdonalds and burger king is silly


- anyway sounds interesting, wish they had discovered this a while ago as i'd like to be able to think its possible to land there during my life time but im not sure that will happen, but its a huge step in the right direction in terms of potentially finding other life forms.

[mes262]

idk if you can say it's completely impossible to make it there in a 100 years, look how fast technology is increaseing and it only increases faster. 

Ok, let me rephrase.

And still impossible to reach in a life time via the current transportation we have.

[Herman169]

idk if you can say it's completely impossible to make it there in a 100 years, look how fast technology is increaseing and it only increases faster. 

Ok, let me rephrase.

And still impossible to reach in a life time via the current transportation we have.

indeed indeed..... i also like hwo they can find all the info they know about it now, i didn't go through any articles that anyone posted but how do they do it, highly powerfull microscopes?

[I<3WD]

pretty much and it would be telescopes >_>

[vloktboky]

They may have used the wobble effect.  That's where they look for a star's wobble by detecting variations in the light spectrum - the Doppler effect.  Gravity works in both ways and large bodies orbiting a star pull at the star as well, causing it to have a predictable "revolution" as well.  How big that wobble is (the extremes on the spectrum) directly correspond to how much mass is orbiting it.  Math does the rest.