Real life Mass Effect here we come.
When I'm dead.
I'd love to see one of these planets up close within this decade.
I'd bet my life-savings that we develop some sort of Inter-Solar travel.
When we are either withered and old, or freshly dead.
Holy shit, 10k posts, I feel like I have no life.
5 times the size of Jupiter? Assuming they're gas giants that means you might as well have dwarf stars orbiting. Size comparison:
[img]http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q82/rockblog/picture3.jpg[/img]
C-c-c-combo.
[QUOTE=DainBramageStudios;17928428]5 times the size of Jupiter? Assuming they're gas giants that means you might as well have dwarf stars orbiting. Size comparison:
[img]http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q82/rockblog/picture3.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
Here's another size comparison:
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Sun_and_VY_Canis_Majoris.svg/800px-Sun_and_VY_Canis_Majoris.svg.png[/img]
And just think, there's more than likely to be bigger stars in the universe.
[QUOTE=Konigstiger96;17925094]How old is he? If he is below 10, leave him alone until his science class.
If not, beat the shit out of him.[/QUOTE]
He's 17, and I can't fight for my life. He's an ignorant dick.
I was listening to a radio show, and the second i started reading "32 new planets" the guy on the radio said it. was trippy mang
There's so much we don't know about Earth.
Now imagine another planet like Earth, 5 times bigger.
Now imagine 31 more of those. Some of which are 5 times bigger than Jupiter.
[QUOTE=Master117;17920404]If we find another planet with life, I wonder what that will do to religious activists.
However, it really begs the question:
If we do find another planet that can support life, we can't exactly communicate. It would take decades for any message to get there, and even if it does, there's no guarantee they can decode it.
The other problem is even the most directed signals become degraded into static and indecipherable garbage after a few light years.[/QUOTE]
Lasers ho, fire em from orbit and bam, removed the issue of atmosepheric lensing.
Besides scientists already have a way of firing laser light with a hell of alot of information in it.
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[QUOTE=zpiscool;17926485]Cool. 32 new planets means that chances are at least one of them's got to harbour life.
Now we just need to find a quicker means of getting to them than what we have now.[/QUOTE]
Are you actually trying to say that theres a 1 in 32 chance of life existing on one of those planets.
Really...
Seriously, that
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Wow.
And it was a Portuguese scientist who contributed the most to this. He "formed the team", so to speak.
5 Times the size of Jupiter is misleading, they mean 5 times the MASS, since a planet can only get 3 times the SIZE of Jupiter before it actually begins to shrink due to its own pressure.
[QUOTE=TAU!;17928216]I'd love to see one of these planets up close within this decade.[/QUOTE]
2009 is almost over.
[B]Hint:[/B] That's the end of the decade.
Maybe he knew that?
Anyone got a higher res version of the OPs pic?
There's got to be life out there somewhere.
[QUOTE=Godlybomb;17929624]Here's another size comparison:
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Sun_and_VY_Canis_Majoris.svg/800px-Sun_and_VY_Canis_Majoris.svg.png[/img]
And just think, there's more than likely to be bigger stars in the universe.[/QUOTE]
Actually, if I'm not mistaken I believe VY Canis Majoris is thought to be on the uppermost limit on the size of stars.
Goddamn it, it was hard enough to remember the first 9.
[QUOTE=kidwithsword;17941724]Goddamn it, it was hard enough to remember the first 9.[/QUOTE]
Its not in our solar system, theire on nearby stars...
[QUOTE=sltungle;17941720]Actually, if I'm not mistaken I believe VY Canis Majoris is thought to be on the uppermost limit on the size of stars.[/QUOTE]
Are you retarted? Do you think we've seen all of the universe? We've probably only seen like 0.001% of what's out there, who knows how big stars can get.
[QUOTE=Khaos23;17942328]Are you retarted? Do you think we've seen all of the universe? We've probably only seen like 0.001% of what's out there, who knows how big stars can get.[/QUOTE]
Now, now. No need to get so angry.
As for the star, that is the biggest [b]current[/b] star. We just haven't found anything bigger yet, if we ever will.
[QUOTE=Drag0nSnak3;17942657]Now, now. No need to get so angry.
As for the star, that is the biggest [b]current[/b] star. We just haven't found anything bigger yet, if we ever will.[/QUOTE]
We won't, since that thing already is pushing on some laws of physics as is.
[QUOTE=Godlybomb;17929624]Here's another size comparison:
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Sun_and_VY_Canis_Majoris.svg/800px-Sun_and_VY_Canis_Majoris.svg.png[/img]
And just think, there's more than likely to be bigger stars in the universe.[/QUOTE]
I hate this picture.
It's utterly terrifying.
[QUOTE=Yahnich;17920325]Alien lifeforms, here we come!
Very slowly![/QUOTE]
I find it ironic that you have 32 agrees.
[QUOTE=KillerTV;17942835]I hate this picture.
It's utterly terrifying.[/QUOTE]
I find it calming, such as when I realize that Everything (capitalized, since I mean EVERYRTHING) is going to die, and there is nothing we can do about it.
[QUOTE=Faren;17932889]2009 is almost over.
[B]Hint:[/B] That's the end of the decade.[/QUOTE]
Does it matter? No. I doubt we will see [i]any[/i] of these planets up close (Whether it's by satellite photos, or a station nearby any of them) within the next few centuries.
[QUOTE=TAU!;17944059]Does it matter? No. I doubt we will see [i]any[/i] of these planets up close (Whether it's by satellite photos, or a station nearby any of them) within the next few centuries.[/QUOTE]
:smith:
Eh, another bunch of average planets... Back in the early 90's, this would've been awesome, but nowadays these kinda planets are just meh and deadworlds. Now finding a planet capable of supporting life, that's a big one. But it'll be a long time before our telescopes catch sight of one of those...
[QUOTE=bravehat;17932722]Besides scientists already have a way of firing laser light with a hell of alot of information in it.[/QUOTE]
Well, the thing is that even laser light fades out into white noise after a few lightyears. Can't even reach Alpha Centauri. It's like that with radio-wave transmissions, anyway...
[QUOTE=Jessesmith1;17920337]imagine the possibilities.[/QUOTE]
A long way to go before we can actually travel there.
So they solved one of the variables to the fermi paradox? Impressive.
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