| people! I found this out this morning, and I must confess, has made me quiet exuberant. Instead of spiling it for you, just check this out!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070425/ap_on_sc/habitable_planet;_ylt=AggeUmWOsRZP7OoVbqUUDAYiANEA
and
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070425/ap_on_sc/switzerland_planet_find;_ylt=AmrhfyIoMfFWq_nQBn7QWNsiANEA
The one word that describes how I live: B.E.B.Z
(Bullets, Explosions, Babes, Zombies)
Oh, yeah, you heard me! THE MUPPET SHOW SAID SO!!!
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Years from now....we send a probe to find more information on this planet....the earth is long poluted, running out of resources, population explodeing...
The world pins its hopes on finding a new place for our miserable masses..
The first pictures come back....and its a world full of....
Shopping malls choked thick with zombie shoppers!!!
Mauhwuahwhauwhauhw
kalimah
When in danger, or in doubt, run in circles! Scream and shout!
It's certainly interesting, but how far away is it? A probe sent there wouldn't arrive within our lifetime, or 50 lifetimes for that matter. A long-term investment indeed.
Be afraid. Hogan is worse than any zombie.
Ah yes I saw this in the newspaper.
It takes 500 000 light years to reach it.
lol, no it doesnt. the sun is 20.5 lightyears from us, making it in the top 10 closest stars to Earth. We'll reach there, in perhaps, 50 years, if we launch it now, o would think. Pluto takes 7 years, so I think 40 is adequate from this new planet.
In order for humanity to survive, inhumanity must be practiced; survival of the fittest.
What?!? Let's do some calculations. You're right that the star is 20.5 lightyears from Earth, but let's recall what a lightyear signifies. A lightyear is the distance that light travels over a standard year (24 hour days, 365.25 days). Spaceships that we have, right now, I believe (and feel free, anyone, to correct me) can travel at speeds of about 12000 mph but, for arguments sake, lets double that and say they can travel at around 25000 mph (I'll be generous). The speed of light, on a low estimate, is about 670 MILLION mph. We're estimating the distance to be about 120 trillion miles, so let's assume our ship, travelling around 30000 mph (I'm being even more generous, assume we make some improvements) and they leave now. I think your estimate of 50 might be a bit on the light side: 10951 years. You may have to add a few years because, practically, to get up to those speeds, the ships are giong to have to use a lot of gravity boosts from planets and the sun.
All that needs to be said is this: FIRE = BAD
And you have to also factor in your slowing down....if you boost up to some high rate of speed....you have to slow down as well...which will decrease the rate at which you travel those miles.
Unless you wana go from reeeeally fast to stop...and turn the crew into chunky salsa.
Inertia is a bitch.
kalimah
When in danger, or in doubt, run in circles! Scream and shout!
The world pins its hopes on finding a new place for our miserable masses..
The first pictures come back....and its a world full of...
Shopping malls choked thick with zombie shoppers!!!
Mauhwuahwhauwhauhw
kalimah
YAY! Open season, no bag limit.......
Ross Kemp can suck my sweaty hairy balls.
What?!? Let's do some calculations. You're right that the star is 20.5 lightyears from Earth, but let's recall what a lightyear signifies. A lightyear is the distance that light travels over a standard year (24 hour days, 365.25 days). Spaceships that we have, right now, I believe (and feel free, anyone, to correct me) can travel at speeds of about 12000 mph but, for arguments sake, lets double that and say they can travel at around 25000 mph (I'll be generous). The speed of light, on a low estimate, is about 670 MILLION mph. We're estimating the distance to be about 120 trillion miles, so let's assume our ship, travelling around 30000 mph (I'm being even more generous, assume we make some improvements) and they leave now. I think your estimate of 50 might be a bit on the light side: 10951 years. You may have to add a few years because, practically, to get up to those speeds, the ships are giong to have to use a lot of gravity boosts from planets and the sun.
Lemme think about this...
Heh. I don't really know how I came to my obviously wrong conclusion. Bah. I thought I ahd some good ideas. Thanks for correcting me, I'm gunan think a lil more before I speak
In order for humanity to survive, inhumanity must be practiced; survival of the fittest.
Well, if Star Trek has taught me anything...
Ha ha, I'm stopping right there. Sides, truth be told I've never even seen one of the Trekkie movies, let alone watch the show (Okay, I lied, I did watch the show a few times, but because of a pal who was into it. I didn't get it, I got bored, we left 20 minutes into the re-run).
It's cool to see other planets that could potentially house humanity without much Terra Forming or other Planetary do-dadding, but honestly we have enough problems on our one tiny little rock that we need to be addressing. We should really focus our energy on eliminating the ridiculous problems on planet Earth (I know some problems will never go away, I cede that point before it's even brought up. Our greatest strength and weakness is the ability to disagree).
how about if we used einsteins relativity theory? if we can move faster than the speed of light we could pottentially arive before we left. but that is looking at space and time as being linear, if time and space are non-linear and everything has already ahppened and is happening right now,as is the view of string theory, pottentially reaching another point in space could be instantaneous.... thats one theory about ufos and how they travel. not to get to weird on you guys, but thhis is a forum about zombie survivalism, I think I can bust out my theories on non-linear space time travel.
anyway, if scinentists could look into this a little more, like creating wormholes through space and tipe, we could pottentially be there as soon as we want.
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