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On May 20 2010 08:49 NeVeR wrote:Edit: Didn't realize how old that article is. Seems like it actually lies outside of the habitable zone.
True, but go to Gliese_581_d. Wikipedia says that it is likely to have deep oceans, and possibly life!
Basically, substitute "c" with "d" in the op article and everything more or less holds true.
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On May 17 2010 17:06 snotboogie wrote: Looks like it's time for us to take our natural expo. We're close to mined out anyway.
^_^ i was starting to worry that there wasnt going to be a starcraft joke at all in this thread!
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We have found Pandora! Let's go screw over some blue natives.... as soon as we figure out cryogenic sleep tech
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On May 20 2010 08:25 NiiPPLES wrote:Show nested quote +On May 17 2010 14:43 orgolove wrote: So if a kid is 10 years old, and boards a spaceship that can go 50% of lightspeed, even then he will become 50yo by the time he reaches that planet?
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Fat chance any of us will make there during our lifetime. Ahah! But there's the great part, fifty years for him would be a couple hundred years for us!
Probably the closest to "time travel" we'll ever get, granted we find some way to travel that fast in the first place :O
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Yo! Lets have Flash command the army whether it is Protoss or Zerg living there! On notes: this is pretty cool!
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Lol, its hilarious to me how "close", when talking about space, is 130 trillion miles away.
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On May 20 2010 09:37 Xiphos wrote: Yo! Lets have Flash command the army whether it is Protoss or Zerg living there! On notes: this is pretty cool!
Little do you know, Flash has been commanding the human forces the entire time (a la Ender's Game)!
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anything related to space is too expensive for us and we got so many world problems dont expect space travel will ever be possible light years is too much
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Humankind will kill itself off long before traveling light years is even feasible. Sorry to be a debbie-downer. :/
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Woo, a new planet to trash once earth is cleaned out! It's a good thing that planet's 20 light years away; it has time to prepare for the worst house guests in the universe
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we all need to travel to Auir RECALL warp in tech
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oh wow this is amazing maybe on said new planet we'll find the protoss? ;D
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Humankind will kill itself off long before traveling light years is even feasible. Sorry to be a debbie-downer. :/ It's actually extremely unlikely that humanity will kill itself off. In the same way that directed self-interests fall into place to create a working economy, the human race's existence is assured by the continued desire to live of each of its individuals. Problems that threaten the species will be dealt with at extreme cost if necessary.
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On May 20 2010 07:37 Zurles wrote:Show nested quote +On May 20 2010 07:34 Aelfric wrote:What? I know of Gliese 581c for something like 2 years, it is not something new. And it is not a good candidate for life supporting planet either, Gliese 581d is much better for this. Also there is a message collected and sent to Gliese581d you can see the progress here: http://www.hellofromearth.net/ They'll definitely speak English on Gliese 581d. So you're saying it's stupid to send radio waves there in english and it is not worth it. What do you even suggest? Not to send anything? If you would decide to send some message to there wouldn't you try to send in any language in case they are capable of understanding something? Don't be so naive.
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Solar radiation and 2x gravity. Sounds "fun".
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I honestly have to say, I do quite enjoy the possibility of discovering other earth-like planets. It's interesting to think of what could exist on any planets like ours.
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It has taken billions of years for life to adapt to the environment here on Earth. Even if the planet would be capable of sustaining life, similar to ours, it would not be "habitable" to humans. It would be a very hostile environment for the human body, and If exposed to it, you would likely die very quickly.
For example, the Native Americans were dying to European diseases, because their immune system had not developed to deal with it. Now think another planet...
Its not just the distance that keeps us from jumping around with the Navi' in the treetops.
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I'm not sure just because a planet is earth like it means that the chances it will have life will be better. For one thing, I dont think there is a proper explanation for how life began on earth. I mean sure we had water and a stable atmosphere, but we can't say that those factors led to life. to show taht you'd would need to find tons of planets already with life and compare their attributes to see which ones are the most prevalent, and even then, correlation != cause so you wouldn't know what really begins extra terrestial life. For that you'dhave to observe life developing on a planet from point zero.
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On May 21 2010 07:02 leetchaos wrote: Solar radiation and 2x gravity. Sounds "fun". considering how other planets dont have an atmosphere let alone terrain to walk on...
we'll adapt to the gravity and the solar radiation the beauty of evolution
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On May 20 2010 12:59 GiantEnemyCrab wrote: anything related to space is too expensive for us and we got so many world problems dont expect space travel will ever be possible light years is too much
This is a common misconception that bugs me. :|
The truth of the matter is over the last 40 or so years, our quality of life has vastly improved over previous generations thanks largely to the inventions of NASA. The general trend for the stuff they create goes:
Stuff for space -> military use -> large corporate use -> consumer use.
One I can vaguely think of off the top of my head is that something NASA needed for their launches ultimately translated in to a device that pretty much stopped airplanes from falling out of the sky "randomly" like they did a few decades ago. I don't remember hardly any of the details, but they have a list on their website of all the things they're responsible for that has ended up more or less in the everyday individual's life.
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