Life Possible On Distant Planet
In light of my recent research on alien life forms, exo-planets, habitable planets and all other things involving our solar system and beyond I have discovered a rather useful website for my research here .
On June 18, 2007 researchers found that the planet Gliese 581c was in fact too hot to support anything like life as we know it. However, in uncovering that information found that a neighboring planet in the same solar system may in fact be just about right. Now the key component to ‘life-as-we-know-it’ is water. Water in its liquid form to be more precise. 581d seems likely to match this criteria.
581c at first glance seems to be in the perfect earth-like spot and orbit. It is in what NASA has dubbed the habitable-zone or “goldilocks zone”. However, a deeper look into the planets atmosphere shows us that the conditions of that planet are in fact more like Venus than earthly conditions. This is caused by large amounts of carbon dioxide and methane surrounding the planet thus causing a massive greenhouse effect. This means that the temperatures reach as high as 212 degrees Fahrenheit and turn whatever water that may reside on the planetary surface into steam. Knowing that little piece of information scientist applied that formula to the other planets within the solar system and discovered that although the placement of the 581d is slightly outside what is the official comfort zone that (given the greenhouse effect equation) it may in fact be just what we have been looking for. 
581d is massive; roughly 8x the Earth’s mass. It is orbiting a extremely stable red dwarf star called Gliese 581. And its not very far from home. Only 20.5 light years! That sounds like something that we could actually make worth our while.
While reading the comments from the article it makes me realize how silly some people can get when it comes to alien life.
Artist's impression of the planetary system around the red dwarf Gliese 581
Roswell, that’s a whole new ball of wax there. What was once the thought to be the site of a massive governmental cover-up has become nearly the sci-fi capital of the US. The entire town is catering to the alien subculture. Because there is one, regardless of what you may think. A seething underbelly of memorabilia, costumes and SETI study groups. These people are relentless. And to be completely honest, does any one really believe that aliens are short green men with big heads and tiny bodies? Don’t get me wrong, they are cute, and I have a few figurines myself but that doesn’t mean that I think that alien life is going to look like that. I think that there are a lot of atmospheric factors that need to be taken into consideration as to whether or not they will in fact look like us or more like say, an earthworm. There is no saying that life on another planet will be more than Animal, bacterial, chemical or something that we simply cannot define.
Who says that aliens are more advanced than we are? We really don’t know enough of space to make that assumption. And we honestly don’t have any proof that they have ever been here. I know, I know, there are SO many reports and so much that the government has covered up, right? So much that the average person doesn’t know. So, basically that means that American has put a gag order on the world? I mean, if you believe that, then why not…I find it hard to think that just because Americans haven’t heard about it from our fear mongering media outlets doesn’t mean that we wouldn’t have heard it from world news or the very least the internet. Though, you truly cannot believe everything that you read on the internet! I just think that a cover up of that scale would require a lot more than we are capable of. Not only as a nation, but the whole world?
There hasn’t been on shred of readily recognizable evidence presented to NASA that we know of. Or any other space research facility in the world. Now the operative term in that statement would be “that we know of”- because what do I know? I might just be wrong. They might be covering up everything, but that arises the question of “Why?”. When they are constantly releasing information regarding planetary research, life probes and all fashion of things about space and the search for life on them. Why would it be so taboo to share something like “We we cool enough that the aliens decided to visit us first!” and announce it to the world. You think that we are unpopular now, imagine if we were the envy of the world for one more incredible thing that happened in the United States. Instead, we are laughed at for Roswell. Its become a joke to everyone that isn’t part of the alien life subculture. I find it very sad that something that was once thought to be so significant has become so commercialized. It no longer has anything to do with what actually happened and most people have no idea what really did happen anymore. All its about is how cool the Alien shaped light fixtures are downtown or how every sign for every restaurant says something witty like “Alien’s Welcome”- double meaning much, it -is- near the border…