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| Author: | jonbwfc [ Wed Oct 17, 2012 9:07 am ] |
| Post subject: | Earth Sized Planet Found Orbiting Alpha Centauri |
Article AC is pretty much 'next door' in galactic terms - it's one of the very few stars we could feasibly journey to, even if we didn't have FTL travel. However apparently the planet is not in the 'goldilocks zone' so the chances of life evolving there are slim - at least insofar as 'life as we know it'. |
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| Author: | AlunD [ Wed Oct 17, 2012 9:11 am ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Earth Sized Planet Found Orbiting Alpha Centauri | |||||||||
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| Author: | HeatherKay [ Wed Oct 17, 2012 9:13 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Earth Sized Planet Found Orbiting Alpha Centauri |
I wonder if they're planning a hyperspace bypass through Earth... |
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| Author: | AlunD [ Wed Oct 17, 2012 9:26 am ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Earth Sized Planet Found Orbiting Alpha Centauri | |||||||||
 Didnt you see the planning application notices? 
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| Author: | Spreadie [ Wed Oct 17, 2012 9:30 am ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Earth Sized Planet Found Orbiting Alpha Centauri | |||||||||
No, apparently they need a Goa'uld mothership to do that. 
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| Author: | HeatherKay [ Wed Oct 17, 2012 9:36 am ] | ||||||||||||||||||
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'Yes,' said Arthur, 'yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying "Beware of The Leopard".' |
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| Author: | paulzolo [ Wed Oct 17, 2012 9:43 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Earth Sized Planet Found Orbiting Alpha Centauri |
Apathetic bloody planet. I’ve got no sympathy at all. |
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| Author: | l3v1ck [ Wed Oct 17, 2012 10:05 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Earth Sized Planet Found Orbiting Alpha Centauri |
Pity were can't send a probe out that far. |
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| Author: | Amnesia10 [ Wed Oct 17, 2012 12:43 pm ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Earth Sized Planet Found Orbiting Alpha Centauri | |||||||||
That would be the Vogons. |
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| Author: | JJW009 [ Wed Oct 17, 2012 2:53 pm ] | |||||||||
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Actually I think we could. It's just that we'd all be long gone by the time it got there, and we'd have to stick a note on it saying "please return to sender"
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| Author: | jonbwfc [ Wed Oct 17, 2012 3:28 pm ] | ||||||||||||||||||
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I think that's a slightly pessimistic estimation. Yes, it's going to take 'a long time' to get there whatever we do. But it's not beyond us technically to accelerate something to say a viable fraction of 'c'. Say we can get a probe up to 1/10 of 'c' - and there are certainly technologies on the drawing board now if not in actual production which would be capable of that - we could build a probe that would make it to AC within the lifetime of someone graduating university this summer. Transmissions would take five more years to come back but that doesn't really make any odds on the scale we're talking about. It's a very long way and not really viable for humans to travel there until we develop drive systems that can go to a fair fraction of c or very good suspended animation techniques but I suspect it will technologically viable to send a probe within 10 years. Although I'm not sure anybody will be willing to pay for it. OK, so not within the lifetimes of most people reading this. But certainly within the lifetimes of their children. |
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