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New 'life in space' hope after billions of 'habitable planets' found in Milky Way
The Telegraph ^
| 03/26/12
Posted on 03/28/2012 4:58:07 PM PDT by KevinDavis
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To: KevinDavis
What good does knowing there are other habitable planets with no way to get to them?
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posted on
03/28/2012 5:24:29 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.)
To: The Cajun
Finally a vision of the future I can support!
Then there will be room on the ship for you.....
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posted on
03/28/2012 5:25:19 PM PDT
by
Hot Tabasco
(No matter what you post here, someone's going to get pissed off......)
To: KevinDavis
You do realize that someday we will develop FTL technology.. Got serious doubts about that.
Physics is physics, there's not even a provable glimmer of a hint that can happen.........Just saying.
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posted on
03/28/2012 5:26:45 PM PDT
by
The Cajun
(Palin, Free Republic, Mark Levin, Newt......Nuff said.)
To: KevinDavis
Sure the hell will not be soon, no matter how you define “soon”.
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posted on
03/28/2012 5:27:09 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
To: The Cajun; All
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posted on
03/28/2012 5:28:26 PM PDT
by
KevinDavis
(I support Mitt...)
To: Malone LaVeigh; All
There are ways to modify the human dna to survive on such planets..
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posted on
03/28/2012 5:30:39 PM PDT
by
KevinDavis
(I support Mitt...)
To: KevinDavis
Why bother looking for them when Obama gutted the manned space program and the rest of America ridiculed Newt’s plan of a Mars/Moon base?
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posted on
03/28/2012 5:30:43 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Barack Obama continued to sponsor Jeremiah Wright after he said "G.D. AMERIKKA!"Where's the outrage?)
To: KevinDavis
Never say never..... Not saying never, just highly doubtful.
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posted on
03/28/2012 5:33:16 PM PDT
by
The Cajun
(Palin, Free Republic, Mark Levin, Newt......Nuff said.)
To: KevinDavis
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posted on
03/28/2012 5:34:01 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas gerit ;-{)
To: KevinDavis
There are ways to modify the human dna to survive on such planets..
I saw that on Pandorum. Unfortunately nobody counted on spending 800 years on the bottom of an alien ocean and the humans genetically altering to fit the ship.
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posted on
03/28/2012 5:39:43 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: cripplecreek; All
That could be a problem..... But the human race is adaptable.
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posted on
03/28/2012 5:47:46 PM PDT
by
KevinDavis
(I support Mitt...)
To: KevinDavis
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posted on
03/28/2012 5:58:12 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: Vince Ferrer
And if their version of a Chinese emperor built a “Chinese Wall” too!
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posted on
03/28/2012 6:10:31 PM PDT
by
1010RD
(First, Do No Harm)
To: The Cajun
“Physics is physics, there’s not even a provable glimmer of a hint that can happen.........Just saying. “
From the point of view of the traveler, the transit time is inversely proportional to the available impulse.
To: KevinDavis
I don’t get why no one seems troubled by ‘30 light years away’.
No one can travel at the speed of light, if you could it would take 30 years, you would have to stop to fuel up...where?
At the price of gas today alone it would be impossible because who could afford it? Certainly not Nasa.
You would have to give up 30 years of your life to just get there and then...start to colonize?
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posted on
03/28/2012 6:14:03 PM PDT
by
Beowulf9
To: KevinDavis
Scientists are so weird, what does “hope” have to do with science?
When Scientists start talking about life on other planets, why do they start sounding like a convention of Pentecostals? Desperate for a sign from heaven?
So much emotional investment!
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posted on
03/28/2012 6:17:17 PM PDT
by
cookcounty
(Newt 2012: ---> Because he got it DONE.)
To: Secret Agent Man
Secret Agent Man said:
Sure the hell will not be soon, no matter how you define “soon”. Oh, I don't know about that.
If there are ten billion planets in the habitable zone of their stars, then there might be one-in-a-million that have life on them. Of those ten thousand, it would be almost a certainty that life on perhaps one hundred of those (and maybe as many as five thousand) would be MORE ADVANCED than we are.
So, we won't have to lift a finger to make contact. THEY will be coming HERE!
To: KevinDavis
In all seriousness I think the next big evolutionary leap will be the ability to transfer a human brain to a computer. In fact I think its probably more likely that real success with AI. That really opens up a whole new realm of possibilities.
A 50 or 100 year trip becomes a meaningless concept. You could send a ship full of human brained robots with thousands of frozen human embryos. The Robots could raise and teach generations of humans upon reaching the destination.
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posted on
03/28/2012 6:26:16 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: Born to Conserve
From the point of view of the traveler, the transit time is inversely proportional to the available impulse. LOL, true until you hit Einstein's wall and it's a very well constructed wall.
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posted on
03/28/2012 6:30:50 PM PDT
by
The Cajun
(Palin, Free Republic, Mark Levin, Newt......Nuff said.)
To: Blood of Tyrants
IIRC, the original Star Trek talked about a math formula to predict the number of Class M planets in the galaxy.
Go to warp 6 and you will get to these other planets pretty quickly.
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