• Three Super-Earth-Size Planets Found in 'Habitable Zone'.
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[QUOTE=LoneWolf_Recon;40332969]We've barely scratched the surface on what the Universe has to offer in knowledge and exploration, I'm looking forward to it all. Also Kepler 62F looks like Planet Reach :dance:[/QUOTE] My interest in this thread just leveled up :zoid:
[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] You should write movies.
[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] Well you've got one hell of an imagination, I'll give you that.
[QUOTE=J!NX;40333140]it sucks that people are so pessimistic about this stuff long before 1903 people laughed at the idea that man would fly [thumb]http://www.aircraftrecognition.co.uk/images/Display%20teams/blue%20angels/Blue_Angels_on_Delta_Formation.jpg[/thumb] what was that? man couldn't fly? oh, I'm sorry, I thought I was hearing things. I'm pretty sure you said "We'll probably never get there". [sp] Not trying to be a dick, just be hopeful. Someday. Maybe not in your grandkids life time, but, you get the point. [/sp][/QUOTE] Sorry, by that I meant the our generation will never get there, which sucks I should've said [editline]19th April 2013[/editline] I'm not so pessimistic to assume that long range space travel will [B]never[/B] happen just, not for a good few generations
[QUOTE=NateDude;40335322][B]K[/B]orean [B]S[/B]pace [B]P[/B]rogram?[/QUOTE] That [i]would[/i] explain all the launch failures.
[QUOTE=Zeb Brown;40332681]I don't think we have the tech yet to just "freeze" people.[/QUOTE] we have freezers and ovens i think we can do this
These fucking asshole planets are just copying us now. We patented the sphere billions of years ago, we need to take this shit to court
[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] So basically what we need is a spaceship that is a self-contained fertility clinic. And the necessary equipment to feed and nurture the infants which is where we could have robots come in and help :)
[QUOTE=AaronM202;40333583]Develop portal gun. Realize it would still take thousands of years for the portal to get there.[/QUOTE] Develop portal gun. Accidentally hit a black hole.
[QUOTE=Pops;40333719]wormholes anyone?[/QUOTE] Time dilation actually [editline]19th April 2013[/editline] [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] Well, it depends how dense the planets are! If they're the same density as Earth, their gravitational pull at the surface will actually be less due to gravitational force getting weaker by a factor of distance from the center of mass squared.
[QUOTE=Bradyns;40332382] ..or maybe you're really optimistic for life to have existed.[/QUOTE] Well yeah, the planets are in habital zones. Life is a good possibility. Hopefully we can quickly conquer and assimiliate them to get at those resources.
Invent the tardis
[QUOTE=Rangergxi;40332368]We need to find oil on these planets so that we will become driven to reach them and colonize them.[/QUOTE] oil implies there was or is life on the planet, and thus could be intelligent life
Why does everyone assume the aliens will be smarter than us? What if we get to a different planet with life but they are like cavemen, and they draw us and then thousands of years in the future they have a TV show called Ancient Aliens, and the aliens were us.
[QUOTE=J!NX;40333140]it sucks that people are so pessimistic about this stuff long before 1903 people laughed at the idea that man would fly [thumb]http://www.aircraftrecognition.co.uk/images/Display%20teams/blue%20angels/Blue_Angels_on_Delta_Formation.jpg[/thumb] what was that? man couldn't fly? oh, I'm sorry, I thought I was hearing things. I'm pretty sure you said "We'll probably never get there". [sp] Not trying to be a dick, just be hopeful. Someday. Maybe not in your grandkids life time, but, you get the point. [/sp][/QUOTE] I would absolutely love to be able to travel to another star system, but with our current understanding of technology, physics, and the universe. It isn't happening. Maybe in the near future we would be able to start a colonization mission, but we would also never hear back from them.
[QUOTE=jimhowl33t;40340699]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] why isn't this being made and tested....
[QUOTE=Zeke129;40332812]Let's freeze people and send them off into space in random directions, hoping aliens somewhere know how to thaw them out. That'd be my plan if I was tasked with an emergency evacuation of Earth with our current tech. Sure, some humans will end up as sex slaves to the tentacled aliens on planet x but that's a small price to pay for progress[/QUOTE] didn't they send out frozen DNA samples with the probes after voyager or what [editline]19th April 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=Pops;40347293]why isn't this being made and tested....[/QUOTE] because it is impossible
[QUOTE=theo0001;40338660]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]He isn't the first to think this, I saw a very similar idea on Stephen Hawking's Into the Universe
[QUOTE=Pops;40347293]why isn't this being made and tested....[/QUOTE] It is, last time I checked.
Now is truly a wonderful time to be alive.
[QUOTE=Dr. Ethan Asia;40350715]Now is truly a wonderful time to be alive.[/QUOTE] meh, it would be nice if the technology was accessible within 10 years.
I hope after my lifetime ends, I just get to watch the human race evolve from a spectators view in the clouds or some shit :v:
We're seeing these planets as we would 1200 years ago. We can't even know for sure if they're even still there.
[QUOTE=The Worm;40356363]We're seeing these planets as we would 1200 years ago. We can't even know for sure if they're even still there.[/QUOTE]What, like they just flew somewhere else?
Just look at that 62f, it's so similar to Earth except larger..
[QUOTE=Water-Marine;40332719]We've already established that "freezing people" causes more problems than benefits and is[B] nothing more than a science fiction pipe dream.[/B] So unless we have muscle/brain regenerators for cryochambers, we're most likely left with sending a whole fucking colony in a self-sustainable ship. God knows how long that'd take.[/QUOTE] Didn't they say that about lasers and cell phones when Star Trek was a thing
[QUOTE=Milkdairy;40359015]Didn't they say that about lasers and cell phones when Star Trek was a thing[/QUOTE] yeah but they also said that about nuclear powered toys and cars
[QUOTE=Eltro102;40360572]yeah but they also said that about nuclear powered toys and cars[/QUOTE] I want my jetpack, flying car and personal robot servants.
[QUOTE=JumpinJackFlash;40358942]What, like they just flew somewhere else?[/QUOTE] Stars have "life" cycles.
[QUOTE=God dammit;40336987]If we ever reach another habitable planet in another solar system I hope we name it Reach.[/QUOTE]if america gets there first it's probably going to be named Enterprise
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