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jonbwfc
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ArticleAC 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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AlunD
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HeatherKay
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I wonder if they're planning a hyperspace bypass through Earth...
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AlunD
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 Didnt you see the planning application notices? 
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Spreadie
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No, apparently they need a Goa'uld mothership to do that. 
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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".' _________________My Flickr | Snaptophobic BloggageHeather Kay: modelling details that matter. "Let my windows be open to receive new ideas but let me also be strong enough not to be blown away by them." - Mahatma Gandhi.
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paulzolo
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Apathetic bloody planet. I’ve got no sympathy at all.
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l3v1ck
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Pity were can't send a probe out that far.
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JJW009
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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"  _________________jonbwfc's law: "In any forum thread someone will, no matter what the subject, mention Firefly." When you're feeling too silly for x404, youRwired.net
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jonbwfc
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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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