Quote Originally Posted by Husar
IIRC light is more like mass converted to energy, because mass and energy are roughly the same etc. pp. never really understood that completely myself.
I'm not really sure about that myself. But lately I've been pondering about this subject quite a bit, and I've come up with this...equation - if it deserves that name. I have this feeling, and it's a hunch more than anything else so please don't laugh, but perhaps energy could be equated with mass times the speed of light squared? What do you guys think?

Oh, and since this planet is discovered by a team of French astronomers, with the odd Swiss French thrown in, I naturally demand that all communications with any posible aliens be conducted in French.
Gah! So we couldn't get you earthlings to submit to our linguistic demands, eh? We'll just teach the aliens then. While you lot are still wasting your time discussing robot poodles, rabbits and Drake's equation, we are transmitting signals to Gliese and are well on our way to turning the universe francophone.