• NASA spots scores of potentially livable worlds
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[QUOTE=Garrus.;27818262]I don't get it. People go "Haw haw! There's a 1 in a trillion chance of their being life out there, it's impossible" What they don't seem to get is that there are literally trillions of trillions of trillions of trillions of planets out there. 1 in a trillion doesn't seem so small if you multiply both numbers by a trillion.[/QUOTE] Then you get the same ratio. I seriously don't understand why Facepunch has this obsession with space.
[QUOTE=Explosions;27818397]Then you get the same ratio. I seriously don't understand why Facepunch has this obsession with space.[/QUOTE] Because space is the future of Humanity, and Facepunch thinks the rest of the world is completely ignorant about astronomy. There's a serious problem in this world when people think you mean astrology when you say astronomy.
[img]http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/6973/expeditioncover.jpg[/img] One step closer for this to become a reality
[QUOTE=Explosions;27818397]Then you get the same ratio. I seriously don't understand why Facepunch has this obsession with space.[/QUOTE] Are you completely devoid of imagination? [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oY59wZdCDo0[/media]
How far away are some of these, in terms of light years?
Its impossible to say we are alone anymore, anyone who think's so by now really needs to get in with modern times more.
[QUOTE=Rooster Assassin;27817157]Imagine all the things you'd see all the way to the year 3000 :psyduck:[/QUOTE] i imagine not much would change but we'd live underwater.
[QUOTE=Jorori;27818513][img_thumb]http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/6973/expeditioncover.jpg[/img_thumb] One step closer for this to become a reality[/QUOTE] I want to pilot it.
[QUOTE=Fatman55;27822511]I want to pilot it.[/QUOTE] Those are the alien creatures, not the ships :v:
[QUOTE=Fatman55;27822511]I want to pilot it.[/QUOTE] What network would pick it up?
[QUOTE=Combine_dumb;27816832]Considering our generation is estimated to live a couple hundred years or more due to the advancements of stem cell research and shit, I wouldn't sell it short just yet.[/QUOTE] I'll come back and rate this informative 180 years from now. For now, you get a rainbow
By the way, extrapolating from these results gives us [B]1 million[/B] Earth sized planets in the habitable zone...in our galaxy alone. This is most likely a vast underestimate because the method the Kepler spacecraft used to find these can only detect planets that have an orbit that crosses their star from our view point, meaning there are far more that orbit at an angle relative to us which we can't detect. 1 million Earth like planets in the habitable zone is likely no where near the real number. [url]http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/02/02/motherlode-of-potential-planets-found-more-than-1200-alien-worlds/#more-27565[/url]
[QUOTE=Combine_dumb;27816832]Considering our generation is estimated to live a couple hundred years or more due to the advancements of stem cell research and shit, I wouldn't sell it short just yet.[/QUOTE] and by the time we reach are 200th birthday new technology will be out to have us live another 200 years.
[QUOTE=Combine_dumb;27816832]Considering our generation is estimated to live a couple hundred years or more due to the advancements of stem cell research and shit, I wouldn't sell it short just yet.[/QUOTE] I think you mean up to 110 years, that's about the estimated average for us.
[QUOTE=FinalHunter;27825559]Good thing I'm working on hyperdrives, otherwise NASA'd be wasting their time.[/QUOTE] Ive been working a warpdrive myself will be done in about another 10 years depending on if I can get enough einsteinium and lawrencium.
[QUOTE=Garrus.;27818262]I don't get it. People go "Haw haw! There's a 1 in a trillion chance of their being life out there, it's impossible" What they don't seem to get is that there are literally trillions of trillions of trillions of trillions of planets out there. 1 in a trillion doesn't seem so small if you multiply both numbers by a trillion.[/QUOTE] You do know those would be the same odds right?
The next few decades are going to be so amazing.
[QUOTE=Rooster Assassin;27817157]Imagine all the things you'd see all the way to the year 3000 :psyduck:[/QUOTE] I'd personally won't like to live that long unless I have friends and family around me during that time. Growing to be hundreds of years old and having everyone you've known and loved dead centuries ago doesn't sound nice at all.
[QUOTE=winsanity;27825774]I'd personally won't like to live that long unless I have friends and family around me during that time. Growing to be hundreds of years old and having everyone you've known and loved dead centuries ago doesn't sound nice at all.[/QUOTE] They'd most likely be there too. But even if they weren't, it's not like you wouldn't meet anybody new.
This isn't interesting. We can't even get to the moon yet.
[QUOTE=ItsGary;27826326]This isn't interesting. We can't even get to the moon yet.[/QUOTE] Then how did that flag red white and blue get up there?
[QUOTE=imasillypiggy;27826349]Then how did that flag red white and blue get up there?[/QUOTE] We can't get to it now can we?
I am awe-struck. Finally the search of microbial life outside Earth can take a solar leap.
[QUOTE=ItsGary;27826374]We can't get to it now can we?[/QUOTE] We can't but other people can.
[QUOTE=ItsGary;27826326]This isn't interesting. We can't even get to the moon yet.[/QUOTE] Herp derp something isn't of immediate use so it's of no interest herp derp. Seriously, stop talking.
[QUOTE=ItsGary;27826374]We can't get to it now can we?[/QUOTE] Sure if your willing to spare me a few million
[QUOTE=imasillypiggy;27826417]Sure if your willing to spare me a few million[/QUOTE] You'd need more than that lol. [QUOTE=Miskav;27826415]Herp derp something isn't of immediate use so it's of no interest herp derp. Seriously, stop talking.[/QUOTE] It's honestly not interesting. We'd still need to get someplace if this is going to be of any use. It's just statistics.
[QUOTE=ItsGary;27826453]You'd need more than that lol. It's honestly not interesting. We'd still need to get someplace if this is going to be of any use. It's just statistics.[/QUOTE] Just because it's expensive as shit, doesn't mean its impossible. This not being interesting is like saying you found $20 in a garbage bag; its pretty interesting.
I wonder what if advance more in stem-cell research and begin to fund it how would Earth look like?
[QUOTE=Miskatonic;27817064]We just need to mine it for its resources! :clint:[/QUOTE] bad things always happen to mining ships
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