baron8000 Posted April 26, 2007 Share Posted April 26, 2007 I can't help but laugh at the "its impossible to go that far/fast" people; the same thing was said about going to the moon, going to mars, hell when the first steam locomotive appeared people refused to accept it as they thought speeds over 30 miles an hour would make your brain explode. Human technology is developing exponentially - theres a stat I cant remember about it being 1000+ years from wheel to car, but less than 100 between the car and space travel. We might not be able to reach it now, but im pretty sure in time we will be able to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercifull Posted April 26, 2007 Share Posted April 26, 2007 Who said its impossible to travel faster than light? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherenkov_radiation "Cherenkov radiation is electromagnetic radiation emitted when a charged particle passes through an insulator at a speed greater than the speed of light in that medium" Currently the fastest probe ever launched from earth is Voyager 1 which is travelling away from the Sun with a speed of 38,600 mph (62,100 km/h). The fastest spacecraft of all is held by the twin Helios probes that were placed in orbit around the Sun. Both these vehicles reached top speeds of around 150,000 mph (250,000 km/h) at closest approach to the Sun. Even with the immense gravity of the Sun its still a long way off 670,616,629 mph (1.07925285 ÃÆÃââââ¬â⬠Mercifull <3 Suzi "We don't want players to be able to buy their way to success in RuneScape. If we let players start doing this, it devalues RuneScape for others. We feel your status in real-life shouldn't affect your ability to be successful in RuneScape" Jagex 01/04/01 - 02/03/12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warri0r45 Posted April 26, 2007 Share Posted April 26, 2007 Who said its impossible to travel faster than light? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherenkov_radiation "Cherenkov radiation is electromagnetic radiation emitted when a charged particle passes through an insulator at a speed greater than the speed of light in that medium" Currently the fastest probe ever launched from earth is Voyager 1 which is travelling away from the Sun with a speed of 38,600 mph (62,100 km/h). The fastest spacecraft of all is held by the twin Helios probes that were placed in orbit around the Sun. Both these vehicles reached top speeds of around 150,000 mph (250,000 km/h) at closest approach to the Sun. Even with the immense gravity of the Sun its still a long way off 670,616,629 mph (1.07925285 ÃÆÃââââ¬â⬠Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wisp Posted April 26, 2007 Share Posted April 26, 2007 finding atruly inhabitable planet is like finding a certain mass of land in the universe. O wait thats what it is If a planet looked at us from say 70 million light years away, theyd see dinosaurs. Scarey IMO Hegemony-Spain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barihawk Posted April 26, 2007 Share Posted April 26, 2007 And believe it or not, one of the most sound theories of FTL travel is the Static Warp Bubble (I am much too lazy to find a Wiki link, but everyone knows the theory :P). Unfortunately, Antimatter costs so much to produce that we can not build a functioning system. But time will tell. Eventually humanity will get over it's vanity and spend more time gazing at the stars. My heart is broken by the terrible loss I have sustained in my old friends and companions and my poor soldiers. Believe me, nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won. -Sir Arthur Wellesley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magekillr Posted April 26, 2007 Share Posted April 26, 2007 i wonder if we could get there how hard it would be to excavate it considering it's 1.5x our gravity 150% our gravity doesn't seem like much, but for a planet to be nearly the same size as ours and have that much more gravity must mean it's dense as hell. i mean Jupiter is only 254% our gravity, but that's understandable because of its size vs its mass. 150% and being the same size :shock: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Satenza Posted April 26, 2007 Share Posted April 26, 2007 Eventually humanity will get over it's vanity and spend more time gazing at the stars. I hope so :D With so many trees in the city you could see the spring coming each day until a night of warm wind would bring it suddenly in one morning. Sometimes the heavy cold rains would beat it back so that it would seem that it would never come and that you were losing a season out of your life. But you knew that there would always be the spring as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person had died for no reason. In those days though the spring always came finally but it was frightening that it had nearly failed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercifull Posted April 26, 2007 Share Posted April 26, 2007 And believe it or not, one of the most sound theories of FTL travel is the Static Warp BubbleIs this a joke? The static warp bubble was in an original season Star Trek episode. :-k Mercifull <3 Suzi "We don't want players to be able to buy their way to success in RuneScape. If we let players start doing this, it devalues RuneScape for others. We feel your status in real-life shouldn't affect your ability to be successful in RuneScape" Jagex 01/04/01 - 02/03/12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
assassin_696 Posted April 26, 2007 Share Posted April 26, 2007 They'll be getting our 80's TV shows about now, so they won't come looking for us :P Cool stuff, we won't be going anytime soon though. Mars seems hard enough at the moment and that's relatively very close. "Da mihi castitatem et continentam, sed noli modo" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
highlanders Posted April 26, 2007 Share Posted April 26, 2007 The article says that Mars also fits the description for a hospitable planet, but obviously isn't. Given that the planet in question goes around a sun so much smaller than ours, I don't think it would be warm enough. But what do I know, it's not like I can just counter all of this news like that. Personally though, I'm doubting it's of any significance as cool as it'd be. Idk if someone mentioned it earlier, but that planet is 14 times closer to their sun than us from ours. The temperature is between 0 and 40 degree celcius - it is even hotter than earth. 2480+ total Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercifull Posted April 26, 2007 Share Posted April 26, 2007 They'll be getting our 80's TV shows about now, so they won't come looking for us :PPfffffft am I the only one who thinks the 80 frakin' rocked?!!! :D I love stargazing. I like to do it at night when i'm drunk. Sit or lie outside and just stare at the moon and the stars. On a clear night its beautiful. Mercifull <3 Suzi "We don't want players to be able to buy their way to success in RuneScape. If we let players start doing this, it devalues RuneScape for others. We feel your status in real-life shouldn't affect your ability to be successful in RuneScape" Jagex 01/04/01 - 02/03/12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Satenza Posted April 26, 2007 Share Posted April 26, 2007 And believe it or not, one of the most sound theories of FTL travel is the Static Warp BubbleIs this a joke? The static warp bubble was in an original season Star Trek episode. :-k Bari is a Star Trek nut :D With so many trees in the city you could see the spring coming each day until a night of warm wind would bring it suddenly in one morning. Sometimes the heavy cold rains would beat it back so that it would seem that it would never come and that you were losing a season out of your life. But you knew that there would always be the spring as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person had died for no reason. In those days though the spring always came finally but it was frightening that it had nearly failed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercifull Posted April 26, 2007 Share Posted April 26, 2007 Meh Piccard bows down to Adama ^_^ Mercifull <3 Suzi "We don't want players to be able to buy their way to success in RuneScape. If we let players start doing this, it devalues RuneScape for others. We feel your status in real-life shouldn't affect your ability to be successful in RuneScape" Jagex 01/04/01 - 02/03/12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bubsa Posted April 26, 2007 Share Posted April 26, 2007 They'll be getting our 80's TV shows about now, so they won't come looking for us :PPfffffft am I the only one who thinks the 80 frakin' rocked?!!! :D I hear you brother! DO THE TRUFFLE SHUFFLE! This is how much you all raised for charity. Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
assassin_696 Posted April 26, 2007 Share Posted April 26, 2007 They'll be getting our 80's TV shows about now, so they won't come looking for us :PPfffffft am I the only one who thinks the 80 frakin' rocked?!!! :D I hear you brother! DO THE TRUFFLE SHUFFLE! Well, to be fair I wasn't even born, but I do remember that the ChuckleBrothers were about then... :P Although I actually liked them "Da mihi castitatem et continentam, sed noli modo" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bubsa Posted April 26, 2007 Share Posted April 26, 2007 They'll be getting our 80's TV shows about now, so they won't come looking for us :PPfffffft am I the only one who thinks the 80 frakin' rocked?!!! :D I hear you brother! DO THE TRUFFLE SHUFFLE! Well, to be fair I wasn't even born, but I do remember that the ChuckleBrothers were about then... :P Although I actually liked them I got loooove for you if you were born in the Eighties! The Eighties! Yah! : This is how much you all raised for charity. Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magekillr Posted April 26, 2007 Share Posted April 26, 2007 i rep the 80's with my shoes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indy500fan Posted April 26, 2007 Share Posted April 26, 2007 Who said its impossible to travel faster than light? Obviously someone who has never seen this: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Continuum Posted April 26, 2007 Share Posted April 26, 2007 Is the human race really so stupid that they didn't expect to find a habitable planet amongst the billions of stars? Not like we'll develop the technology to get anywhere before we blow ourselves up... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomdavies90 Posted April 26, 2007 Share Posted April 26, 2007 wow! and it's only 20 trillion miles away! if i set off now i might get there in the year 60300....did they forget about that? pretty cool to imagine though...think about it.....they dont believe in god and jesus.....they probably have their own weird religions, all their history...it's so cool...that is if it had it's own rac of course...probably just another planet of crud Sig by me.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Satenza Posted April 26, 2007 Share Posted April 26, 2007 I was born in 89', i'm so eighties. I have nothing on my ipod post 1990. With so many trees in the city you could see the spring coming each day until a night of warm wind would bring it suddenly in one morning. Sometimes the heavy cold rains would beat it back so that it would seem that it would never come and that you were losing a season out of your life. But you knew that there would always be the spring as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person had died for no reason. In those days though the spring always came finally but it was frightening that it had nearly failed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magekillr Posted April 26, 2007 Share Posted April 26, 2007 Is the human race really so stupid that they didn't expect to find a habitable planet amongst the billions of stars? Not like we'll develop the technology to get anywhere before we blow ourselves up... um...it's not habitable yet. for one it doesn't necessarily have water. 2..it's not necessarily protected by a larger object that will stop asteroids from colliding into it like our asteroid belt and Jupiter. 3...it might not revolve like the earth... sooo many more factors that affect "habitable" other than atmosphere and climate... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Continuum Posted April 26, 2007 Share Posted April 26, 2007 Oh, lay off. I know that. I'm just commenting on the fact that the way humans are surprised that there are habitable/potentially habitable planets out there is ridiculous. So go away. -.- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barihawk Posted April 26, 2007 Share Posted April 26, 2007 And believe it or not, one of the most sound theories of FTL travel is the Static Warp BubbleIs this a joke? The static warp bubble was in an original season Star Trek episode. :-k The theory was written in 1959. So? :P I knew someone was going to bring up Star Trek. The theory effectively breaks Einstein's theory of Reletivity by removing Mass from the equation. Meh Piccard bows down to Adama ^_^ Picard would. Kirk, Sisko, Janeway and Archer would kick his [wagon]. Well, Archer might have a tough time without shields. But Phasers > railguns and nukes anyday. :P End of freaking discussion. Now, old-school BSG might present a challenge to Star Trek tech-wise. My heart is broken by the terrible loss I have sustained in my old friends and companions and my poor soldiers. Believe me, nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won. -Sir Arthur Wellesley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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