Posted on 06/09/2009 6:08:30 PM PDT by KevinDavis
The nearest Earth out there in space? It might be right next door, galactically speaking.
Two teams of astronomers, one from the United States and one from Europe, are in a race to find a planet orbiting our near neighbors Alpha Centauri A and Alpha Centauri B, twin stars that appear from Earth as a single point of light.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Hmmmmmmm. A place to send liberals?
They can stay here...
What are they going to do, call on Star Trek for the ships? It’s not like you can call a cab to go light years.
I vote we go to Gor and ride tarns. It’s right here in our solar system on the opposite side of our orbit.
Liberals wouldn’t last 12 hours before being enslaved. And according to all the paperback covers the girls of Gor make Megan Fox look like a boy.
I'm there.
Hey, I’d go!
I love your spirit of adventure, but I respectfully with letting them have our home. We can’t feel like running when they infest our lives.
We need to have BOTH places.
I love your spirit of adventure, but I respectfully disagree with letting them have our home. We can’t feel like running when they infest our lives.
We need to have BOTH places.
Thoughts:
1. Terraform Mars. It’s a planet, and it’s close.
2. Colonies on the moon. Free of most Earthly reach, still close to home to be possible with today’s technology.
3. Orbital habitats. Possible with today’s technology, though satellite destroying weapons pose a risk.
4. Europa - it’s got water.
These people tried to get to Alpha Centauri ~ and we all know what happened then ;)
See ya there!
That's because stowaway KGB agent, Dr.Smith, sabotaged the mission. Actually, they explained in a later episode that Smith's presence (additional weight) actually caused the ship to go off course and miss an asteroid that would have destroyed the ship. Oh, the pain, the pain of it all...
Lost In Space series - watch free online:
http://video.aol.com/show/lost-in-space
Is Obama OUR Dr Smith - or Geitner?
(although throwing in the teckie asteroid thing threw off my question...lol)
we theoretically have the technology for generational ships, and the future should make things a bit faster. we could use nuclear rockets, ion drives or even the original Project Orion which used nuclear bomb blasts to increase speed exponentially.
approaching something near the SOL is eventually possible but that, currently, is the speed limit, unless some of the theories of taking short cuts through worm holes, warp bubbles and the like. but this may prove to be a fantasy.
we can still reach out to the closer stars with generational ships......we may move out into the stars and lose track of one another, the distances and time being so vast........but if we set up viable colonies elsewhere, we move closer to preventing the human race from its eventual extinct....
Brave new world...
I was thinking the liberals and lefties would go off to the new planet. They would probably invite commie agent Smith to go along with them.
That qualifies you as a right-wing extremist, sir. Your papers, please
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