[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]
That is why scientists raised the speed of light in 2642.
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[QUOTE=valkery;33587309]Kinda defeats the point of trying to travel to another planet doesn't it?[/QUOTE]
You're on a rock being flung through space at billions of miles per hour. No sense in sweating what you can't change.
In the future we go there and find two dead cosmonauts.
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You're on a rock being flung through space at billions of miles per hour. No sense in sweating what you can't change.[/QUOTE]
Then why start something that will inevitably end in failure?
We need ludicrous speed
The answer to space travel is simple: We wait for aliens to get here, then we jack their ride.
[QUOTE=cecilbdemodded;33588825]The answer to space travel is simple: We wait for aliens to get here, then we jack their ride.[/QUOTE]
''I need that shit you drive!''
[QUOTE=Noble;33586881]Just get some shields up on that space ship and you're all set.[/QUOTE]
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[QUOTE=Turnips5;33585029]you can't touch intelligence or rationality or empathy or love either, does that mean none of them matter?[/QUOTE]
I meant to touch in a broader sense. Can't touch as in - it won't ever be of any use to us, probably not even any specifically informational one. You are comparing abstract things which, while indeed can't be touched in the original meaning of the word, are ironically much more tangible for us than this planet.
Oh hey, this is fucking aweso-
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[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]
That might not be entirely true.
Many string theorists (which is one of the most popular scientific theories of the modern era) believe that the creation of wormholes (Bending the fabric of space) creates shortcuts.
The best way to describe it to you is that if you take a piece of paper and you need to draw a line from one end to the other, it is quite long. However, take that same paper and bend it and you have a shortcut. Einstein proved that space is indeed like a fabric and can be bent and manipulated, but he also stated that there is no travel faster then light. Many scientist now say that there is a way, the one described above.
Still, the amount of energy it would take, plus the advanced calculations, is far beyond that of mans current comprehension.
[QUOTE=Noble;33582470]600 light years away means it takes 600 years for the light from that planet to reach earth. If it takes light 600 years to get there, how long do you think a space ship is going to take to get there?[/QUOTE] 601 yearsNo but seriously, out space ships go a fraction on the speed of light.
Our ships go 500km/s
It would take 600^2 years to go there with our current ships :v:
It's around 360000 years :v:
[QUOTE=dije;33593578]Our ships go 500km/s
It would take 600^2 years to go there with our current ships :v:
It's around 360000 years :v:[/QUOTE]
Oh wow.
Guess I better bring some crackers or something for the trip then.
Is there any life on the planet?
[QUOTE=Canuhearmenow;33582537]This gives us all the more reason to develop ways to reach out into the stars. It's a shame the age of the space shuttle and ISS basically slowed our development in that regard.
On another point, I imagine they'll be checking to see if the planet has oxygen in it's atmosphere? From my understanding we're capable of checking the atmosphere's composition from Earth, and if it has oxygen, then it has to have life (oxygen's a fairly unstable element alone, and significant quantities in the atmosphere imply it's continually being renewed.)[/QUOTE]
what makes you think that ALL life needs oxigen?for all we know they would be living off carbon dioxide the beings there
Sensors has detected a class-M planet captain?
yay, so now my hard scifi story has at least some facts backing it up.
[QUOTE=Banhfunbags;33593860]Is there any life on the planet?[/QUOTE]
We don't know yet. But I can drop by next sunday and check it out.
[QUOTE=Lebowski;33582720]find me a planet in a habitable zone that's smaller so i can jump like michael jordan
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Would you settle for the moon?
Science, please find a way within my lifetime?
Would be much appreciated!
[QUOTE=dije;33593578]Our ships go 500km/s
It would take 600^2 years to go there with our current ships :v:
It's around 360000 years :v:[/QUOTE]
Are we there yet?
[editline]6th December 2011[/editline]
how bout now
[QUOTE=Icedshot;33586764]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[/QUOTE]
And where are you going to get the fuel for a constant acceleration... in space?
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Unless you want to use solar energy and somehow propel using that, it's not going to happen.
[QUOTE=Man Without Hat;33596354]And where are you going to get the fuel for a constant acceleration... in space?
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Unless you want to use solar energy and somehow propel using that, it's not going to happen.[/QUOTE]
ION drives.
Unfortunately, for now they are very slow.
So if we were going at, say, the speed of the last manned rocket towards this planet, how long would it take to reach it?
[QUOTE=Cone;33597149]So if we were going at, say, the speed of the last manned rocket towards this planet, how long would it take to reach it?[/QUOTE]My post a bit up, 360000 years
As unlikely as it is I like to imagine there's a humanesque race there, wondering what this "Earth" planet they just found is.
Wow. Imagine on that planet, they might be saying the same thing about us.
[QUOTE=brandonsh;33598600]As unlikely as it is I like to imagine there's a humanesque race there, wondering what this "Earth" planet they just found is.[/QUOTE]
I picture some alien on that planet telling his wife "For God's sake Martha, cover yourself, the neighbors are looking at us through their telescope again!"
[QUOTE=MR-X;33582457]It isn't pointless because it is the first step to finding out and studying the possibility of life besides our own. If our planet developed life, then it is very well possible that other planets may contain some type of life, whether is be micro-organisms or actual sentient beings.[/QUOTE]
But life can be anywhere. Habitable zone planets are just planets that can maintain liquid water on their surface, which is needed for all [b]known[/b] forms of life. So exotic forms of life that do not need liquid water might possibly exist.
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