Extra-solar Earth-like planet found

[Coyote]

Originally posted by Seshmeister
Poor man, I wonder if he's now being treated...

McKenna? six feet under since 2000.

Me? The doctor said I'll be released just in time for summer.

[knuckleboner]

Originally posted by Seshmeister
Not wanting to rain on the parade of this post but I find it a bit confusing.

Apparently it will take at least 11 months to get to Mars which is around 35 million miles away at it's closest point of orbit.

A bit of a back of a cigarette pack maths by myself works this out at 3 142 857 years travel to get to this new planet. Even allowing for me being a bit drunk and that I'm no astrophysicist I see a potential problem...

In the words of Douglas Adams 'Space is big'.


Cheers!

nah, you're going REALLY, REALLY slowly. something like 4,000+ mph. way too slow for a probe.

figure we get a smaller, nuclear ion-powered probe up and running. give it 2 years to reach top speed. it'll be going way faster than 4,000 mph. assume we pump the probe up to 50,000 mph. in that case, it'd only take like 274,000 years to reach that planet. and from then, just a scant 20 years for the probe to radio back to earth on what it found...

[MUSICMANN]

Wormholes, haven't you guys ever watched Stargate. Really though, for a planet to possibly be able to substain life, lord knows what type of screts it may hold.

[Little Texan]

Originally posted by Nitro Express
The Mormons have it figured out. You wear funny underwear and participate in a secret temple cerimony where you wear a Greek styled togo rob, a bakers hat, and a green apron. Once you have mastered the Five Points of Fellowship and know all the signs and tokens, you can make it to that planet after you die.

A fellow Mormon on another planet made it and when you become a God, you can travel the universe.

Man was Joseph Smith smoking some buds or what?

The scary thing is there are many people who actually believe that horseshit!

[bastardog]

That is good news!
we can keep destroying our planet and then send our baby sons to that planet in a homemade spaceship that looks like a rock.

Remember to include some kind of video for him o remember you. (DVD, Blueray or some strange cristal stik)

[Seshmeister]

Originally posted by knuckleboner
nah, you're going REALLY, REALLY slowly. something like 4,000+ mph. way too slow for a probe.

figure we get a smaller, nuclear ion-powered probe up and running. give it 2 years to reach top speed. it'll be going way faster than 4,000 mph. assume we pump the probe up to 50,000 mph. in that case, it'd only take like 274,000 years to reach that planet. and from then, just a scant 20 years for the probe to radio back to earth on what it found...

About 4000mph is the speed of the proposed Mars mission.

It's funny to see the phrase 'only 274 000 years'...

Just in time for a Van Halen reunion!

[knuckleboner]

yeah, that was my whole point of using the "ONLY." :D

i thought the same thing as you when i read the article, "likely to be a target for future missions." ...what?! it's 125 TRILLION miles away. that's not a target.


and i think the mars mission is projected at 4,000mph because 1) it's a HELL of a lot bigger: it's supposed to be including a number of humans. and 2) it won't actually have a long period of time with which to accelerate.

i used 50,000 mph because the voyager spacecraft are currently moving at about 44,000mph.

[Little Texan]

From the other linked article:

“It’s 20 light years. We can go there,” said Dimitar Sasselov, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, who studies the structure and formation of planets.

He's talking like it's only a few thousand miles away, we can send a probe there. Does he have any clue how far away 20 light years is? And this fucker is supposed to be smart?

[Viking]

20 light years. I guess I shouldn't uninstall my SETI@home software just yet....... :D

[ace diamond]

Originally posted by Seshmeister
Live Long and Drink!

agreed!

[Hardrock69]

I say Live Long And Toke!
:D