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<strong>Title: </strong> <a href="/link.php?id=21023" target="_blank">Scientists discover 'super-Earth' planet</a> (click to view)

<strong>Category:</strong> <a href="/news/topic/9-science" target="_blank">Science</a>
<strong>Posted By: </strong> <a href="/modules.php?name=Your_Account&op=userinfo&username=canucker" target="_blank">canucker</a>
<strong>Date: </strong> 2007-04-27 03:09:05
<strong>Canadian</strong>

   

Wow.

Cool.

To bad it wold take forever to send something over there.

   

Still, we could send a satellite probe to investigate.

   

Even so, we need technology that can go faster then the speed of light, even for the smallest objects....

   

1) NOTHING that is a solid object can travel at, or faster than, the speed of light so that technology will never be invented.

2) Being 20 light years away (or 120 trillion miles away) it means that even if you DID somehow manage to travel at the speed of light (186,000 miles per second/300,000 kms per second) it will still take you 20 years to get there. But humans could still send an unmanned space probe there that, say, travels at half he speed of light, so it'll take around 40 years to get there and, once there, it can send back information such as TV pictures etc that'll take 20 years to get back to Earth as the signals would travel at the speed of light.

All this will take a long time, but it's the only thing that can be done.

All this shows the immense size of the Universe. This planet is relatively close to Earth - it's a near-neighbour - but even travelling at 186,000 miles per SECOND it's still take you 20 years to get there.

   

There are ways around that barrier, but that is some crazy complex stuff. Hopefully we can get there one day.

   

   

This is true. However, it should also be noted that as an object approaches the speed of light, time slows down for that object. So, although a trip through space could seemingly take 20 years to an observer on earth, the people in the vehicle would only experience a fraction of that time as they approached light speed so theoretically, a trip much longer than an average life span could be made, as the people on board the ship would age more slowly.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/time/thinktime.html

   

what the fuck would that do us blokes on earth waiting to see images of the surface of that planet?

   

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That definately goes on my list of ignorant statements made by people.

Pictures could help us identify numerous things.

#1. plant life

#2. Liquid water

#3. Alien civilization

#4. atmosphere

#5. Tolerable weather patterns

   

I think we might be able to teleport there at some point like beam me up Scotty.

   

I think it would be cool if we built upon the signal theory. Signals travel at the speed of light. If we were able to transform/condense ourselves, spaceships, data etc. into signal frequencies, we could potentially travel at the speed of light or faster.

   

Well, it doesn't matter because we'll all be long dead before we get anywhere close to that kind of technology.

   

Well, I been hearing great things about teleportation, or rather to copying of quantum signitures of atoms. Theoretically, this means you could send a message instantaneously to a point in the universe. It would make FTL communication possible.

Though this is really far off. Maybe in a 100 years.

   

20 light years? a full cycle in 13 days? Red dwarf? This is not a viable solution, maybe a few million years ago but now it is on its last legs. By the time we got there it would be frozen solid.

   

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