Do you no the hundreds of conditions that wpuld have to be just right to survive?
A moon, magneticsphere, proper level of oxegen, a tilt on its axis to name a few.
If just one of the hundreds of conditions are not right, life there is not possible.

I know how we could get there

bliviongate: <------the blue guy being the planet's residents (if there is any) the red guy being us

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No.

I wonder if we humans would be cold enough to conquer the planet from whatever is living on it, if we were capable to and the locals were technologically inferior.. Lets say that Earth was getting overpopulated and this option was possible.. :mellow:

look at my most recent post

It does not need a moon.
There is certain conditions a planet needs to be habitable.
An atmosphere does not deteriorate.
A magnetic field that stops solar winds stripping our atmosphere.
The planet being in the habitable zone where it is not too hot or cold for the planet.
The planet most likely should have a mass of .5 to 5 earth masses.
The planet radius should be .8 to 1.8 earth radii.
It should also be spinning , if it is not one side will be very hot and the other will be cold.
Liquid water and carbon helps as well.
The temperature of the planet should be within the temperature of liquid water as well.
The albedo which is the percentage of solar energy is reflected also should be considered as well. For example earth reflects about 36% of the suns energy.
I think there maybe some things I missed. I swear I am missing something.

I bet the last bloody Turian insignia is there...

It needs to be modded. :spotted owl:

Seriously though. 22 million years is good time!

I wonder how much money I would make in drilling, mining, and killing the wildlife.

Not enough to make a profit.

Pff, please, we all know that was in Alpha Centuari...

IT'S OBVIOUSLY THE PROTHEANS WHO [censored] UP SHEPARD ON ELETNIA

Your just not seeing opportunity if done right one person can make that planet into a paradise.

Mass effect ftw

Here are a few you missed could easily put more:
strong nuclear force constant
if larger: no hydrogen would form; atomic nuclei for most life-essential elements would be unstable; thus, no life chemistry
if smaller: no elements heavier than hydrogen would form: again, no life chemistry
weak nuclear force constant
if larger: too much hydrogen would convert to helium in big bang; hence, stars would convert too much matter into heavy elements making life chemistry impossible
if smaller: too little helium would be produced from big bang; hence, stars would convert too little matter into heavy elements making life chemistry impossible
gravitational force constant
if larger: stars would be too hot and would burn too rapidly and too unevenly for life chemistry
if smaller: stars would be too cool to ignite nuclear fusion; thus, many of the elements needed for life chemistry would never form
electromagnetic force constant
if greater: chemical bonding would be disrupted; elements more massive than boron would be unstable to fission
if lesser: chemical bonding would be insufficient for life chemistry
ratio of electromagnetic force constant to gravitational force constant
if larger: all stars would be at least 40% more massive than the sun; hence, stellar burning would be too brief and too uneven for life support
if smaller: all stars would be at least 20% less massive than the sun, thus incapable of producing heavy elements
ratio of electron to proton mass
if larger: chemical bonding would be insufficient for life chemistry

Lets just face it, we don't know for a fact if there might be life on that planet. As of right now everything is still up in the air.

Thanks forgot about the stars. In my life in the universe class my professor put in the four or five MAJOR things need. Also, some of the things we have stated go side in side in a simpler requirement. We are just over elaborating just a little.

And you've seen this actually-has-observable-life where, exactly?

I think of life on other planets like something I read before. Saying no other life is in the universe is like taking an 8oz. cup and scooping some ocean water, and upon seeing no fish in the cup you declare that there is no life in the ocean. I feel that there is a high certainty that there is life on other planets, but we just can't find it.

...Or it doesn't want us to find it!!!!

You wonder if we humans would be cold enough to conquer an area away from whatever else is living on it? I take it you're not a history buff?

There are countless stars that are very similar to our own Sun. Planets are becoming more and more common as detection methods get better. What makes Earth so special? Other than our perspective.



One of my favorite parodies to the Fermi Paradox:
"Tonight I decided to have Lobster for dinner. Instead of going out and catching or buying lobster, I'm going to sit at my table and wait for them to come to me. After 4 hours of waiting, still hungry, and no lobsters showing up, I have concluded that lobsters do not exist."

Of course there's life out there. Maybe not on THIS planet but there sure is life somewhere.

I read in a book, I don't know exactly how it went but this is how I remember it.

There are millions of planets in the universe. Half of those planets can sustain life. And half of THOSE planets actually CONTAIN life. And half of THOSE planets have intelligent life. And half of THOSE planets could possibly contain society.

So there is indefinitely a society somewhere else in the universe whether it's just starting up or crumbling down. There is society. I don't know why it's hard to believe, we're not as special as we want to be, everything that happened to create Earth could simply have been repeated.

I'll believe it when I see it.

Anyways, does the planet have vegetation or no?

@Boradam: No way to tell from here.