[Red Badger]

X-O Planet Ping!.....................

[cuban leaf]

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.

[Track9]

Baltimore? Maybe Detroit

[Go Gordon]

Water vapor? Do they not realize that water vapor is essentially carbon dioxide? Holy crap.

[LibWhacker]

Most of that planet, by volume, the vast majority is this gas envelope

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.

[Tallguy]

Yeah, but I bet it doesn’t have Global Warming!

[Fresh Wind]

Gas giant...you mean like Jerry Nadler?

[mountainlion]

They found water so it must be a better place than here/s

[Robert DeLong]

While these researchers found evidence for liquid water clouds on K2-18 b, because of its lack of surface, rain wouldn't pool on the planet. As rainfall travels through the thick gas surrounding the planet's core, it would become so warm that the water would evaporate back up into the clouds where it would condense and fall again, Benneke said.

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.

[bigbob]

Let’s go!

[RetiredTexasVet]

Is this speculation or has it been fact checked by Snopes?

[pfflier]

I really don't get the "scientific" fascination with looking for water or water vapor as the sole criterion for finding extraterrestrial life.

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.

[beethovenfan]

I’ll visit it when I have my new body.

[ronnie raygun]

Let us convince those who hate America, money well spent with the hopes that they may encounter creatures like alien

[Carl Vehse]

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.