Three Super-Earth-Size Planets Found in 'Habitable Zone'.
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I doubt aliens would be too nice. Realistically I would paint aliens as around the same morals us, we still have wars, hunger, corruptness, but generally we aren't all terrible. I mean it wouldn't be exactly the same but it seems more odd that they would be on such a radical side of either "nice" or "bad"
[QUOTE=BenJammin';40333198]I doubt aliens would be too nice. Realistically I would paint aliens as around the same morals us, we still have wars, hunger, corruptness, but generally we aren't all terrible. I mean it wouldn't be exactly the same but it seems more odd that they would be on such a radical side of either "nice" or "bad"[/QUOTE]
Who knows, maybe they just won't even acknowledge us because we're so stupid
Man, the idea of aliens is super neat
[QUOTE=Zeb Brown;40333154]Sweet, more video game ideas[/QUOTE]
I'd see it more as a book, e.g. [I]Old Man's War
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Develop portal gun = profit.
P.S - those who will say: black hole will appear and destroy earth....
Go to moon, build huge telescope for aiming, spawn orange portal on one distant planet billions years away, spawn blue portal on moon, jump in = Profit.
Simple.
..... Well simple besides the idea of how to create portal gun.
[QUOTE=arleitiss;40333541]Develop portal gun = profit.[/QUOTE]
Develop portal gun.
Realize it would still take thousands of years for the portal to get there.
[QUOTE=Rangergxi;40332368]We need to find oil on these planets so that we will become driven to reach them and colonize them.[/QUOTE]
And be crushed by their gravity.
I'm really interested in how the significantly increased gravity would affect the development of life on these planets and how evolution would change their entire structure to cope.
1200 years to travel there at the speed of light? You know if you actually travel that fast there's relativity involved for the pupil in motion and it feels a lot shorter. If you were to go exactly the speed of light it would be an instant trip. At 95% the speed of light around 370 years. Though to earth it would still be 1200 years.
[QUOTE=tristanguy2;40333647]1200 years to travel there at the speed of light? You know if you actually travel that fast there's relativity involved for the pupil in motion and it feels a lot shorter. If you were to go exactly the speed of light it would be an instant trip. At 95% the speed of light around 370 years. Though to earth it would still be 1200 years.[/QUOTE]
wormholes anyone?
[QUOTE=Zeb Brown;40333279]Who knows, maybe they just won't even acknowledge us because we're so stupid
Man, the idea of aliens is super neat[/QUOTE]
or they're protecting us with a coalition of stuff
like once we rid our species of unreasonable wars and we head into space, we will be contacted
or you know, possibilities are endless
[QUOTE=AaronM202;40333583]Develop portal gun.
Realize it would still take thousands of years for the portal to get there.[/QUOTE]
it took a few seconds for it to get to the moon alone
yeah more like thousands of millenia to get there + 99.99% chance of not reaching
I'll take my chances with warp drives.
My only question about this is how would the gravity of these planets effect us? I mean they are clearly larger so that means their pull of gravity would be greater so wouldn't we be like crushed or something?
[QUOTE=Potus;40333943]My only question about this is how would the gravity of these planets effect us? I mean they are clearly larger so that means their pull of gravity would be greater so wouldn't we be like crushed or something?[/QUOTE]
You might find this interesting (Wonders of the Universe by Brian Cox, fantastic stuff)
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iDyhg0BPZA[/media]
Skip to about 2 minutes in if you feel inclined
Basically yeah you probably would be crushed if the gravity is too strong, think it said in the article that they haven't measured their mass yet - only their size
[QUOTE=Roof;40333851]or they're protecting us with a coalition of stuff
like once we rid our species of unreasonable wars and we head into space, we will be contacted
or you know, possibilities are endless[/QUOTE]
For that to happen we must form a single state and then cease military spending. But that would mean imprisoning every nationalist/religious person ever.
[QUOTE=laserguided;40334043]For that to happen we must form a single state and then cease military spending. But that would mean imprisoning every nationalist/religious person ever.[/QUOTE]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNHpjpxkc1U[/media]
Can we send all the Koreans there and call it the Koprulu Sector?
[QUOTE=yellowoboe;40334107]Can we send all the Koreans there and call it the Koprulu Sector?[/QUOTE]
[B]K[/B]orean [B]S[/B]pace [B]P[/B]rogram?
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[QUOTE=luverofJ!93;40332839]I'm sick of humanity fighting, and not working together to unite our planet and move further into the space age.[/QUOTE]
I so fucking Agree with this we should have been to mars by now and a major extended part's to the ISS as well
I've got it!
Design a machine that operates exactly like a womb. Get a bunch of human eggs, turn them into zygotes, and freeze those. Design a space vessel that can operate on its own for a very long time, as well as programs and devices that can take care of infants and children that also will be able to educate them on all necessary aspects of science and such.
Send the vessel off to the distant planet for a thousand year journey, during which time it will operate autonomously. Once it is within 30 years of the destination, thaw the zygotes, place them in the artificial womb, birth a bunch, gradually educating and training them until they reach their destination.
Bam. Interplanetary explorers.
If we ever reach another habitable planet in another solar system I hope we name it Reach.
[QUOTE=A B.A. Survivor;40336858]I've got it!
Design a machine that operates exactly like a womb. Get a bunch of human eggs, turn them into zygotes, and freeze those. Design a space vessel that can operate on its own for a very long time, as well as programs and devices that can take care of infants and children that also will be able to educate them on all necessary aspects of science and such.
Send the vessel off to the distant planet for a thousand year journey, during which time it will operate autonomously. Once it is within 30 years of the destination, thaw the zygotes, place them in the artificial womb, birth a bunch, gradually educating and training them until they reach their destination.
Bam. Interplanetary explorers.[/QUOTE]
BAM you forgot about some things, by the time they arive there they are 30 and they will have NO idea where to look at, as they only saw the 1000 year old earth, in the time we could have FUTURAMA here...
[QUOTE=Zeb Brown;40332900]I sure hope the aliens are nice people.
Cause if they're rude, that would suck[/QUOTE]
Knowing us Humans, we'd overreact and start a war we couldn't possibly hope to win with some stupid bullshit.
Look at the size of those things.
Think of how long it took humanity to finally dominate the whole planet, and how we're still finding new stuff everywhere.
Those things are [B]huge[/B]. Think of all the cool shit we could find.
[QUOTE=A B.A. Survivor;40336858]I've got it!
Design a machine that operates exactly like a womb. Get a bunch of human eggs, turn them into zygotes, and freeze those. Design a space vessel that can operate on its own for a very long time, as well as programs and devices that can take care of infants and children that also will be able to educate them on all necessary aspects of science and such.
Send the vessel off to the distant planet for a thousand year journey, during which time it will operate autonomously. Once it is within 30 years of the destination, thaw the zygotes, place them in the artificial womb, birth a bunch, gradually educating and training them until they reach their destination.
Bam. Interplanetary explorers.[/QUOTE]
Holy shit we could just unleash a bullet storm of these towards all of the earth-like planets. Either you stole this from a sci-fi novel, or you're a genius.
[QUOTE=yawmwen;40332690]it would take 1,200 years to reach the star if we traveled at the speed of light in a vacuum.
unless we developop an alcubierre drive, we won't ever get there.[/QUOTE]
Or if we'd make a massive fucking ship that people will live, die and be born in for the next 1-2 thousand years.
[QUOTE=Zeb Brown;40332900]I sure hope the aliens are nice people.
Cause if they're rude, that would suck[/QUOTE]
I bet they're like us, so there are asshole douchebags and total bros alike.
People need to invent warp drives so we can get there now! Though we'd also need to have some sort of inertial dampers, or we'd all be puddles of chunky salsa...
[QUOTE=Fat-Corgi-Guy;40340578]People need to invent warp drives so we can get there now! Though we'd also need to have some sort of inertial dampers, or we'd all be puddles of chunky salsa...[/QUOTE]
The current most valid proposal for a Warp drive involves no acceleration, so you could zip between star systems without becoming a puddle of cosmonaut stew.
[QUOTE=Tiersin;40332458]If that were the case, we would have been on [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakes_of_Titan"]Titan[/URL] a long time ago.[/QUOTE]
I wouldn't want to colonize Titan... (Yet.)
Or maybe as a pit-stop for the methane, then I see a reason to.
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