First habitable planet discovered - Polidicks

>20 light years away Nope.

SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE! [editline]17th May 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=Pasalaqcua;29891600]>20 light years away Nope.[/QUOTE] Its possible. someday.

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Theres proably shitloads of gold! And crabs!

[QUOTE=Joazzz;29891179]Fat aliens! Yeah, and [I]ludicrous speed.[/I][/QUOTE] A normal space shuttle travels at 20,000 MPH. That's [I]WHILE IT'S LEAVING THE ATMOSPHERE[/I] which is usually pretty damn tough since gravity wants you down here. If you continue through space with thrusters engaged constantly, your speed will multiply because no friction and gravity holding you down. Essentially, you could reach a couple hundred thousand miles per hour after a few days\weeks of constant thrust.

This makes me want to play Spore.

[QUOTE=Binladen34;29891909]A normal space shuttle travels at 20,000 MPH. That's [I]WHILE IT'S LEAVING THE ATMOSPHERE[/I] which is usually pretty damn tough since gravity wants you down here. If you continue through space with thrusters engaged constantly, your speed will multiply because no friction and gravity holding you down. Essentially, you could reach a couple hundred thousand miles per hour after a few days\weeks of constant thrust.[/QUOTE] I doubt a space shuttle can last that long. A day of constant thrusting max.

If we were able to travel 90% the speed of light, it would still take them about 20 years to get there, but from their perspective, it would only be 10.

Couldn't we just launch a probe powered by an ion or plasma rocket and take some orbital telemetry.

[QUOTE=Binladen34;29891909]A normal space shuttle travels at 20,000 MPH. That's [I]WHILE IT'S LEAVING THE ATMOSPHERE[/I] which is usually pretty damn tough since gravity wants you down here. If you continue through space with thrusters engaged constantly, your speed will multiply because no friction and gravity holding you down. Essentially, you could reach a couple hundred thousand miles per hour after a few days\weeks of constant thrust.[/QUOTE] It still would not be enough, something like an Orion like spaceship or a hypothetical bussard ramjet are probably the only way

[QUOTE=Binladen34;29891909]A normal space shuttle travels at 20,000 MPH. That's [I]WHILE IT'S LEAVING THE ATMOSPHERE[/I] which is usually pretty damn tough since gravity wants you down here. If you continue through space with thrusters engaged constantly, your speed will multiply because no friction and gravity holding you down. Essentially, you could reach a couple hundred thousand miles per hour after a few days\weeks of constant thrust.[/QUOTE] Strap dozens of ion engines to the back of the colony's ship: Low thrust, but in a couple days it'll start to snowball, and the fuel source for them is pretty damn small, and they use little power.

[QUOTE=Canuhearme?;29891230]Curious inquiry: I wonder what kind of aliens would live on such a planet.[/QUOTE] AFAIK they'd probably be short, stout and muscular from the gravity. Kinda like Ralph Pootawn

[QUOTE=GoldenDargon;29892206]AFAIK they'd probably be short, stout and muscular from the gravity. Kinda like Ralph Pootawn[/QUOTE] "no"

[QUOTE=Lufttygger306;29891143]It's just a lie to make americans happy[/QUOTE] Let me guess... the moon landing was fake to you?

2G is pretty hard to live with. Think about it. You'd jump half as high. Getting up would be twice as hard. You're more likely to get back problems. We can live in it, but it's difficult. Not to mention the fact that it would take twice the fuel to get into orbit around Gilese. That being said, Sledges and bikes would go twice as fast down hills :buddy:

[QUOTE=Joazzz;29891179]Fat aliens! Yeah, and [I]ludicrous speed.[/I][/QUOTE] Actually no, they'd be [I]muscular[/I] aliens. Haven't you seen DBZ? More gravity makes you stronger :madmax:

Didn't we find another one last year in the same Gliese 581 system?

Ah yes, we once again turn our sights towards Zarmina (we REALLY should call it that, sounds pretty sci-fi, like something out of Space: 1999). Sadly according to the current beliefs we cannot reach her in under 20 years at the absolute maximum. But then again, they ARE beliefs, and no belief is completely solid. For all we know there could be a dozen or so undiscovered loopholes in the so-called "universal constant" that we haven't discovered yet.

[QUOTE=Synelor;29892299]It would be really interesting to experience living on a different planet.[/QUOTE] Thank you Captain Obvious, you've saved us once again! :patriot:

Only 2 times Earth's normal gravity. That's child's play [img]http://www.bloodofasaiyan.com/50x_gravity.jpg[/img]

[QUOTE=RubberFruit;29892576]You're more likely to get back problems. We can live in it, but it's [/QUOTE] Solution: We build motorized toboggans with wheels on the bottom, and lie stomach down on them, and slither about the planet like snakes.

[QUOTE=Intoxicated Spy;29891464]That is very close. The galaxy is about 20 billion light years across or so.[/QUOTE] Woah, no it isn't. Maybe the void between galaxies from here to, say, another similar galaxy to ours in the Local Cluster. The galaxy itself is about 100,000ly in diameter.

Headline: "First habitable planet discovered" Reality: "Planet we discovered a few years ago and declared maybe habitable has been re-declared maybe a little more habitable but it will still kill us if we were to go there"

[QUOTE=Luuper;29892085]It still would not be enough, something like an Orion like spaceship or a hypothetical bussard ramjet are probably the only way[/QUOTE] Problem is, relativistic effects are, well, a problem. We need to find a way around that. A way to circumvent the conventional laws of physics. In this universe, I'm confident that, in some capacity, that's possible. It may take us a bit, but with the way our tech is advancing...

Now the scientific community should find a way to implant cryonics upon human bodies. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fjr3A_kfspM[/media] Maybe that's the key?

uh getting there wouldn't be very possible. a light year is 5,865,696,000,000 miles multiply that by 20 and you get: 117,313,920,000,000 that is one-hundred-seventeen trillion three-hundred-thirteen billion nine-hundred-twenty million miles away. i don't know WHERE the person who suggested a few billion miles got their info from.

Awesome news! Now I gotta go play space engine.

Pardon me, I'm off to get the land deed.

If we only had wormholes :frown:

Going at the speed of Apollo 10, it would take 541,108.4 years to get to that planet. Not bad, in terms of universe-scale timeframes. Problem is that any info would take 20 years to return to earth. [editline]17th May 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=CoolCorky;29893185]Headline: "First habitable planet discovered" Reality: "Planet we discovered a few years ago and declared maybe habitable has been re-declared maybe a little more habitable but it will still kill us if we were to go there"[/QUOTE] We could survive on the surface.