# Planet suitable for habitation discovered **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 19, 2011, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/planet-suitable-for-habitation-discovered/582453 "2011-05-19T15:31:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/planet-suitable-for-habitation-discovered/582453/41 "2011-05-20T18:18:14Z")
> [@gravitycrash](#): > > They already have heard _You light up my life_. > > These guys are well on their way and they are pissed. ☹ Hey, they heard the Carpenters’ "Close to You’ over 20 years ago. If their spaceships can reach .99_c_, they should be here any day now. :eek: 😉 ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/planet-suitable-for-habitation-discovered/582453/42 "2011-05-20T19:01:17Z")
> [@Phlosphr](#): > > Can we get the SDMB Physics Geeks to work double time on teleportation or traveling through worm holes? It’ll make the trip much more bearable 🙂 “Longer than you think, Dad! It’s longer than you think!” ---
**Author:** ![Ostrya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/35a633/32.png) [@Ostrya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ostrya)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/planet-suitable-for-habitation-discovered/582453/43 "2011-05-20T19:12:43Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > **If their spaceships can reach .99** _c_, they should be here any day now. :eek: 😉 It seems like any civilization that advanced would have [abolished the penny long before now and simply rounded the 99c up to one dollar.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=609038). ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2011, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/planet-suitable-for-habitation-discovered/582453/44 "2011-05-23T18:19:03Z")
> [@gravitycrash](#): > > They already have heard _You light up my life_. > > These guys are well on their way and they are pissed. ☹ [Maybe this guy was trying to save the earth.](http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/05/22/new.york.songwriter.suicide/index.html?hpt=Sbin) Too soon? ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2011, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/planet-suitable-for-habitation-discovered/582453/45 "2011-05-23T19:30:44Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > I dunno, Pal. I’m in favor of waiting until we invent phasers, or at least 1920 Style Death Rays. > There might be some damn big aardvarks over there! Don’t be silly. Aardvark never hurt anybody. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2011, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/planet-suitable-for-habitation-discovered/582453/46 "2011-05-23T19:44:16Z")
> [@Malacandra](#): > > Don’t be silly. Aardvark never hurt anybody. Oh sure. You’ve never seen one that didn’t get to be first in line, have you? ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2011, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/planet-suitable-for-habitation-discovered/582453/47 "2011-05-23T19:50:21Z")
> [@Anne\_Neville](#): > > I don’t know. I was thinking about this in the shower this morning. We don’t seem to be giving up wireless transmissions. In fact, we’re more dependent on our mobile phones than we were twenty years ago. I don’t see us giving up mobile phones without some collapse-of-civilization type event. > > Of course, I could be wrong. I obviously don’t know what path technology will take in the future. I know even less about what path technology might have taken on planets around other stars. > > That could just mean that sending ships to other star systems isn’t economically feasible. I want your shampoo. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/planet-suitable-for-habitation-discovered/582453.md?page=2)