habitable planet found.

[sharpnova]

Originally Posted by marxandlennon

One of the big questions is, even if we could get humans to this planet, would they even stay human? I mean, you're dealing with a completely new set of environmental issues, and that means we would evolve differently than we would on earth...who knows, we may end up with a completely different species after a few hundred thousand years of colonization...

that'd make a cool sci fi novel...

My guess is our technology level is sufficient that if we made it to the planet, evolution wouldn't be playing that great a role in our developement as a species.