Everybody expects ET and they could end up being Klingons.
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by The Black Forrest » Wed Sep 18, 2019 8:08 pm
by Gormwood » Wed Sep 18, 2019 8:34 pm
by Cameroi » Wed Sep 18, 2019 8:58 pm
by Bombadil » Wed Sep 18, 2019 9:00 pm
Cameroi wrote:all of the planets we discover are large, because our way of finding them isn't really able to detect anything smaller.
what is reassuring is that nearly every star is a sun which has them. any in their sun's 'goldy locks' zone might have life as we 'know' it,
and of course, 'life' as we don't 'know' it, could be almost anywhere. (but wouldn't likely find us tasty nor us it)
water of course, in its liquid phase, is key to that 'life as we know it'. so this is encouraging.
we still have no way ourselves, to travel much beyond our own solar system within the natural span of our individual lives.
there are several possible work arounds to this.
but just knowing they're there, is good for a smile on my face too.
(there are twenty solar systems within twenty years at the speed of light.
only problem is, we've yet to accellerate anything larger then an atomic nucleus even a tenth of that.)
by Auze » Thu Sep 19, 2019 3:41 am
by Thermodolia » Thu Sep 19, 2019 3:58 am
by Valrifell » Thu Sep 19, 2019 5:16 am
Thermodolia wrote:Time to build an generation ship to go visit it and while we’re at it let’s fund faster-than-light tech and fast as light tech/just under light tech
by Ethel mermania » Thu Sep 19, 2019 5:18 am
Valrifell wrote:Thermodolia wrote:Time to build an generation ship to go visit it and while we’re at it let’s fund faster-than-light tech and fast as light tech/just under light tech
You can not physically break c without going massless. Astronauts need mass.
Well, theoretically you could warp spacetime but that's like real hard unless you have a lot of mass.
by The Blaatschapen » Thu Sep 19, 2019 5:20 am
Valrifell wrote:Thermodolia wrote:Time to build an generation ship to go visit it and while we’re at it let’s fund faster-than-light tech and fast as light tech/just under light tech
You can not physically break c without going massless. Astronauts need mass.
Well, theoretically you could warp spacetime but that's like real hard unless you have a lot of mass.
by Dumb Ideologies » Thu Sep 19, 2019 5:23 am
by LiberNovusAmericae » Thu Sep 19, 2019 5:24 am
Kowani wrote:https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/09/first-water-found-in-habitable-exoplanets-atmosphere-hubble-kepler-k2-18b/
So, considering the grand number of threads that are utterly depressing, combative, or just plain shitstorms, I wanted to celebrate something big in science that just went by. A planet, tens of times larger than earth has been found to have water on it. (No, we didn’t go, it’s through water vapor absorbing light. The article has more info on how that works.) That’s noteworthy, but not overtly so-other planets have been found to have water before. Thing is, this one is in the Goldilocks Zone of its respective star, making it the most likely candidate for life that we know of.
Sadly, we can’t exactly check-it’s 111 light years away. But SPACE!
So, NSG, do you think there might be life on this planet? Would it be worth it to go? Not just for extraterrestrial life, but also as a secondary planet for us? And if there was life, what would happen?
by Valrifell » Thu Sep 19, 2019 5:29 am
Dumb Ideologies wrote:I've just emailed aliens@bigsoggyplanet.space to see if they want to be friends.
by Dumb Ideologies » Thu Sep 19, 2019 5:32 am
Valrifell wrote:Dumb Ideologies wrote:I've just emailed aliens@bigsoggyplanet.space to see if they want to be friends.
Let us know what they say.
by The Andromeda Archipelago » Thu Sep 19, 2019 5:32 am
Bombadil wrote:I myself see herds of pancakes roaming the land, large tasty pancakes.
by Ethel mermania » Thu Sep 19, 2019 6:36 am
by The Blaatschapen » Thu Sep 19, 2019 6:43 am
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