/dev/null Posted July 27, 2010 Posted July 27, 2010 http://news.discovery.com/space/kepler-sci...ke-planets.html Kepler Space Telescope investigator drops the dime during a presentation.
Doc Posted July 27, 2010 Posted July 27, 2010 This isn't surprising news, but I suppose it needed verification before being accepted.
stuckincincy Posted July 27, 2010 Posted July 27, 2010 http://news.discovery.com/space/kepler-sci...ke-planets.html Kepler Space Telescope investigator drops the dime during a presentation. (Other) Mars Attacks!
BillsRUs Posted July 27, 2010 Posted July 27, 2010 Well....do they have any Unobtanium we could exploit the natives for?
Hossage Posted July 27, 2010 Posted July 27, 2010 PARTY ON PLANET Z! I want to be the first man to have sex with an alien.
BillsRUs Posted July 27, 2010 Posted July 27, 2010 PARTY ON PLANET Z! You can forget about that. First space explorers will be missionaries from earth....off to build churches and show the people the way of the God.
dib Posted July 27, 2010 Posted July 27, 2010 You can forget about that. First space explorers will be missionaries from earth....off to build churches and show the people the way of the God. and the missionary position.
ieatcrayonz Posted July 27, 2010 Posted July 27, 2010 This isn't surprising news, but I suppose it needed verification before being accepted. Undoubtedly, this is huge news. If officially confirmed by NASA -- and only then would it be advisable to pop the champagne corks -- the discovery of dozens of worlds of comparable size to Earth is historic. Confirmed by NASA? That's gonna be a while. Their #1 mission now is to make friends with the Mormons.
Doc Posted July 27, 2010 Posted July 27, 2010 Even if they confirm it, big deal. Humans will never reach them and won't ever make contact with any life that may exist on them.
Booster4324 Posted July 27, 2010 Posted July 27, 2010 Even if they confirm it, big deal. Humans will never reach them and won't ever make contact with any life that may exist on them. Well, we know we won't. Who know what will change in the next few hundred years though.
\GoBillsInDallas/ Posted July 27, 2010 Posted July 27, 2010 Analysis please. Will they all be class M? Will Rome not fall on one of the planets? Will Nazi Germany take over one of the planets?
Doc Posted July 27, 2010 Posted July 27, 2010 Well, we know we won't. Who know what will change in the next few hundred years though. It won't matter because you can't change the laws of physics. These planets are millions of light years away. Even if they were just thousands of light years away, it would still be impossible to reach them, and thousands of years before we could communicate with them. Not to mention, I don't know if humans will be around in several hundred years.
\GoBillsInDallas/ Posted July 27, 2010 Posted July 27, 2010 you can't change the laws of physics. You can mix the matter and anti-matter cold as part of a full-power start. I know this is true because I saw a 40-year-old documentary on TV that showed this very same thing.
Booster4324 Posted July 27, 2010 Posted July 27, 2010 It won't matter because you can't change the laws of physics. These planets are millions of light years away. Even if they were just thousands of light years away, it would still be impossible to reach them, and thousands of years before we could communicate with them. Not to mention, I don't know if humans will be around in several hundred years. http://www.popsci.com/entertainment-amp-ga...theorist?page=1 Not saying that is what will happen. And some people think Michio Kaku is more about promoting himself than physics. Still, with hundreds of years to work, who knows what is possible is my point. You may have a valid point about us not being here.
Cugalabanza Posted July 27, 2010 Posted July 27, 2010 ...These planets are millions of light years away... We will not be able to have a conversation with anyone, but it's still possible that we could receive a transmission (millions of years old, sure) that would confirm intelligent life somewhere else. That is quite interesting, no?
DC Tom Posted July 27, 2010 Posted July 27, 2010 It won't matter because you can't change the laws of physics. These planets are millions of light years away. Even if they were just thousands of light years away, it would still be impossible to reach them, and thousands of years before we could communicate with them. Not to mention, I don't know if humans will be around in several hundred years. While the laws of physics don't allow things to move faster than light, they technically don't disallow time travel (at least, not yet). There's no reason in physics why you can't travel thousands of light years in, say, three years, by travelling for several thousand years (external frame of reference - obviously, the space ship's frame of reference would be much shorter), and then going back in time to a point three years after you left.
stuckincincy Posted July 27, 2010 Posted July 27, 2010 We will not be able to have a conversation with anyone, but it's still possible that we could receive a transmission (millions of years old, sure) that would confirm intelligent life somewhere else. That is quite interesting, no? See my posts. What do you think I've been doing here?
mead107 Posted July 27, 2010 Posted July 27, 2010 PARTY ON PLANET Z! I want to be the first man to have sex with an alien. ass prob!
Ramius Posted July 27, 2010 Posted July 27, 2010 It won't matter because you can't change the laws of physics. These planets are millions of light years away. Even if they were just thousands of light years away, it would still be impossible to reach them, and thousands of years before we could communicate with them. Not to mention, I don't know if humans will be around in several hundred years. Technically, since the Milky Way is in the range of 100,000 to 120,000 light years wide, and we are roughly 2/3 of the way out from the center, the exoplanets aren't "millions" of light years away.
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