Right, well this fucking planet had better have a composition of light elements so that it has similar gravity to ours, I don't want all this faffing about with our musculature and whatnot that occurs when humans live in gravitational environments different from Earth.
...Actually, considering the distance from there to Earth, any humans going there to colonize it would have witnessed generations of bone loss and deformities, probably, so that point is moot.
[QUOTE=Turnips5;33582440]Unfortunately it's too far away. Light is the fastest thing in the universe, and as the article states, it takes 600 years for light to get there, so we don't have much of a chance of getting there any time soon.[/QUOTE]
Well guess we better get started then.
[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;33582928]It's all rather pointless because we have absolutely no reason for getting boners over shitty [I]maybe[/I] habitable planets lightyears far when we can barely move within our own solar system.
We don't even have a fucking moonbase. Our latest probe to our fucking enighbors, will fly there for 8 months.
Unless we make a [B]radical[/B] discovery in space propulsion (FTL), [I]we aint going anywhere.[/I][/QUOTE]
who gives a fuck, it's still cool
Awesome! Hope I can visit some time in my li-
"It is located about 600 light years away."
FUCK
[QUOTE=Canary;33583396]Not any more apparently.[/QUOTE]
knew someone was gonna call neutrinos on this
oh well, if it turns out to be right, we'll have a mechanism to send things faster than light, woo
[editline]5th December 2011[/editline]
there is nothing cooler than the idea that there are almost certainly other beings [I]elsewhere[/I] looking up and wondering the same things as us
actually there is one thing cooler, and that would be the idea of receiving messages from them or meeting them
[QUOTE=Turnips5;33583515]knew someone was gonna call neutrinos on this
oh well, if it turns out to be right, we'll have a mechanism to send things faster than light, woo
[editline]5th December 2011[/editline]
there is nothing cooler than the idea that there are almost certainly other beings [I]elsewhere[/I] looking up and wondering the same things as us
actually there is one thing cooler, and that would be the idea of receiving messages from them or meeting them[/QUOTE]
it might have to be a long-distance relationship and those [I]never[/I] work out.
[quote]The planet’s radius is about 2.4 times that of the Earth[/quote]
Time to work on those buns and thighs!
Well, someone 25 years ago wouldn't have imagined a touch screen. People 50 years ago wouldn't have imagined that they could see their own fetus 5 months before delivery.
Science always breaks it's boundaries. Even so, if we don't ever reach this planet, we could do many other things. Maybe 200 years from now, sending humans outside of the solar system will seem novice.
We just need to let things do their course. There are tons of things science has stunned us with. Let's let extended space travel be one of them.
I wonder if there are socially inept aliens on the other side of space discussing the discovery of planet earth on a mod based forum called StalkPunch.
If so, I want to meet Garry Newlien.
[QUOTE=TheSmartass;33584000]I wonder if there are socially inept aliens on the other side of space discussing the discovery of planet earth on a forum called StalkPunch.[/QUOTE]
Socially inept? Say that to my stalk and not online and see what happens.
[QUOTE=Raidyr;33584025]Socially inept? Say that to my stalk and not online and see what happens.[/QUOTE]
The invasion has begun.
I for one welcome our new StalkPunch overlords.
[QUOTE=bull04;33583981]Well, someone 25 years ago wouldn't have imagined a touch screen. People 50 years ago wouldn't have imagined that they could see their own fetus 5 months before delivery.
Science always breaks it's boundaries. Even so, if we don't ever reach this planet, we could do many other things. Maybe 200 years from now, sending humans outside of the solar system will seem novice.
We just need to let things do their course. There are tons of things science has stunned us with. Let's let extended space travel be one of them.[/QUOTE]
Pretty much this, when the phone was invented, a mobile phone would've seen a stupid, and insane idea
now we have mobile phones that let you talk to your family in a video chat, instantly go on the internet, anywhere, record HD video, and act as a sleep alarm, all in your pocket, without that even being the beginning of it.
Hopefully, when I'm 80, I want to see robot bases on mars.
[QUOTE=SpaceGhost;33582930]600 light years away...it could probably be a dead world by the time people get there.[/QUOTE]
It would take roughly 1440000 (one million, four hundred thousand) years for the fastest unmanned aircraft to reach this planet.
So it wouldn't be a dead world because the evolution has been going on for about 4 billion years now on our planet..
[QUOTE=Turnips5;33582631]you don't need "600 years' worth" of fuel, there's no friction in space
you just need enough to accelerate you to a bloody high speed and then decelerate, which is still an assload
[/QUOTE]
More fuel is better. Longer acceleration and faster deceleration.
[QUOTE=Psychokitten;33582567]Keep in mind, our planet developing life was a one-in-a-million sort of thing.
And that's just the single celled organisms, multicellular is a whole bag of coincidences on its own.
Don't get me started on how hilariously insane it is that we Humans exist.[/QUOTE]
Yes, but you also have to consider how hilariously insane the number of stars there are is.
[QUOTE=Turnips5;33583457]who gives a fuck, it's still cool[/QUOTE]
The fact that there are planets out there with environment very similar to ours is almost certain. If there's any within 1000 lightyears, 500 lightyears or 50 lightyears, doesn't really matter, because we [B]can't touch this[/B].
[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;33584744]The fact that there are planets out there with environment very similar to ours is almost certain. If there's any within 1000 lightyears, 500 lightyears or 50 lightyears, doesn't really matter, because we [B]can't touch this[/B].[/QUOTE]
you can't touch intelligence or rationality or empathy or love either, does that mean none of them matter?
[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;33584744]The fact that there are planets out there with environment very similar to ours is almost certain. If there's any within 1000 lightyears, 500 lightyears or 50 lightyears, doesn't really matter, because we [B]can't touch this[/B].[/QUOTE]
According to the time dilation entry on wikipedia, a constant acceleration of 1g is enough to travel through the entire known universe within one human lifetime
I hate to ask this, but I recently got asked this question and I had no good answer for it.
"What happens when you hit a speck of dust when travelling at the speed of light, and is there any way to avoid what I would assume to be a catastrophic explosion?"
[QUOTE=valkery;33586807]I hate to ask this, but I recently got asked this question and I had no good answer for it.
"What happens when you hit a speck of dust when travelling at the speed of light, and is there any way to avoid what I would assume to be a catastrophic explosion?"[/QUOTE]
Just get some shields up on that space ship and you're all set.
[QUOTE=Noble;33586881]Just get some shields up on that space ship and you're all set.[/QUOTE]
That answers the first part of the question, but I guess the second part is even more important...
How check for large obstacles in your path? You are already travelling at the speed of light...
[QUOTE=valkery;33586932]That answers the first part of the question, but I guess the second part is even more important...
How check for large obstacles in your path? You are already travelling at the speed of light...[/QUOTE]
Do it the old fashion way, if you hit something, you wouldn't know it.
[QUOTE=Psychokitten;33582567]Keep in mind, our planet developing life was a one-in-a-million sort of thing.
And that's just the single celled organisms, multicellular is a whole bag of coincidences on its own.
Don't get me started on how hilariously insane it is that we Humans exist.[/QUOTE]
That's why I hate it when someone pulls out the drake equation and says there must be life out there.
[QUOTE=ExplodingGuy;33587025]Do it the old fashion way, if you hit something, you wouldn't know it.[/QUOTE]
How so?
[QUOTE=valkery;33587075]How so?[/QUOTE]
You'll be dead.
[QUOTE=valkery;33586932]That answers the first part of the question, but I guess the second part is even more important...
How check for large obstacles in your path? You are already travelling at the speed of light...[/QUOTE]
Hmm, good question. You might find this page interesting
[url]http://www.astronomycafe.net/qadir/q2720.html[/url]
[QUOTE=ironman17;33582486]Well, people aren't willing to invest in something that'll take nearly a million years to get there and do an in-depth survey, and even then we could simply improve telescope tech and observe from afar. Without a reliable quantum entanglement device, it wouldn't be worth sending a probe. Even with a QED ansible it'd still take aeons to reach the planet, and even then the ansible might not work as we imagine.[/QUOTE]
You can't transfer information through quantum entanglement. Not at the speed of light, not at any speed.
I thought that other planet, Gleise 581g was also confirmed to be habitable as well?
But it's gon be a loooooong ass time until we even think about how to reach these far away planets.
[QUOTE=ExplodingGuy;33587085]You'll be dead.[/QUOTE]
Kinda defeats the point of trying to travel to another planet doesn't it?
Considering the small window at which water stays liquid compared with the galactic temperatures, this is fantastic. But doesn't the size of the planet come into the equation too? If the planet is too large, the equator of the planet will be too hot or too cold at the poles?
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