Dudewithoutapet
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Originally posted by: Quintox
So that's where the Andelites live!
Its Andalites, thank you very much
Originally posted by: Quintox
So that's where the Andelites live!
Originally posted by: So
Originally posted by: dman
I wonder what the scientists on that planet would calculate the temperature on MARS to be based on the size of our sun and it's perceived distance from it? I'm just guessing that Mars probably looks like a reasonably hospitable planet from 20LY away.
That said, It's still cool information. That is, until we see the colony and war ships heading towards us that left 19.9years ago at the speed of light.![]()
Mars is pretty habitable. I mean, we could, with current technology build a self sustaining colony. The hard part is getting the stuff to build it over there. Same for Venus, which would be the perfect home for a "cloud city" but we can't afford to send people there...yet.
Originally posted by: tenshodo13
As we speak. The Inhabitants of the Planet are massing Zerglings, the US Air Force is sending Battleships to combat the threat, and the People who discovered the planet are being stalked by Snipers of the Government for knowing too much.
Originally posted by: Oscar1613
according to this site, the fastest exit velocity (of the solar system) is Voyager 1 at 38,600 mph, which means it would take 152,292,746 years to go 1 light year or 3,045,854,922 years to travel the 20 light years to this planet
edit: man i dont know what i was doing last night, but i must've missed a decimal or two... the actual number is 356,392 years for the 20.5 light years, not 3 billionor 17,385 years for one light year
Originally posted by: Acanthus
The main problem being communications taking 20.5 years to reach earth, it would take incredible advances in AI tech for an unmanned craft to be able to explore it and send back information without catastrophic failure.
Originally posted by: OS
a probe would be doable, just we wouldn't see results in our lifetimes.
Originally posted by: angminas
That's a lot of words you're putting in his mouth. Besides, in the 1950s they thought we'd all be wearing rocket underwear by now.
Originally posted by: Oscar1613
Originally posted by: Oscar1613
according to this site, the fastest exit velocity (of the solar system) is Voyager 1 at 38,600 mph, which means it would take 152,292,746 years to go 1 light year or 3,045,854,922 years to travel the 20 light years to this planet
man i dont know what i was doing last night, but i must've missed a decimal or two... the actual number is 356,392 years for the 20.5 light years, not 3 billionor 17,385 years for one light year
Originally posted by: Kalmah
That's an awesome discovery.. but if I signed up today to board an aircraft that can go the speed of light, I would be 64 when I got their. If such a craft was invented tomorrow.. you can bet your a$$ I'll be on it though.![]()
Originally posted by: sao123
Originally posted by: Oscar1613
Originally posted by: Oscar1613
according to this site, the fastest exit velocity (of the solar system) is Voyager 1 at 38,600 mph, which means it would take 152,292,746 years to go 1 light year or 3,045,854,922 years to travel the 20 light years to this planet
man i dont know what i was doing last night, but i must've missed a decimal or two... the actual number is 356,392 years for the 20.5 light years, not 3 billionor 17,385 years for one light year
??? check your math
I get 17386.5 for years to go 1 light year at 38,600mph...
1 Lt Yr = 5,879,000,000,000 Miles
5,879,000,000,000 / 38,600mph = 152305699.5 hours
152305699.5 hours = 6346070.8 days
6346070.8 days = 17386.5 years
17386.5 years * 4 = 69546 Years to get to the closest star 4 light years away.
17386.5 years * 20.5 = 356423.2 years to get there.
Originally posted by: 911paramedic
Since our space travel sucks, lets just shoot them an email and ask them to come here. Who has the best wireless setup?
Problem solved.
[SoupNazi]Next![/SoupNazi]
Originally posted by: NanoStuff
Originally posted by: OS
a probe would be doable, just we wouldn't see results in our lifetimes.
Do you really think in the 100+ years it would take, there is no hope for developing a technology that would allow you to live past your expiration date?
Artificial Intelligence far beyond human capabilities, autonomous machines the size of a blood cell, but we won't be able to get a stem cell to differentiate in the body? Not a very realistic proposition. I for one intend to be here when the aliens arrive, and perhaps go there for an interstellar game of chess.
Originally posted by: Jgtdragon
my question is how many years is one light year?!?!
Originally posted by: exdeath
All this talk about FTL probes and everyone is forgetting that once the probe gets there it will take over 20 years for the signals to get back to us anyway...
Unless everyone is simply assuming that FTL travel implies that FTL communications would be trivial.
I just hope they don't use Sony batteries. Would be a shame to see the thing explode into a fireball 38 years after launch when it only had 1 year left to get to the planet (19 years in flight + 19 years for the flames to be seen on Earth)
Originally posted by: OS
Originally posted by: exdeath
All this talk about FTL probes and everyone is forgetting that once the probe gets there it will take over 20 years for the signals to get back to us anyway...
Unless everyone is simply assuming that FTL travel implies that FTL communications would be trivial.
I just hope they don't use Sony batteries. Would be a shame to see the thing explode into a fireball 38 years after launch when it only had 1 year left to get to the planet (19 years in flight + 19 years for the flames to be seen on Earth)
if you used a robot probe with something near todays technologies, you might be lucky to get one there in a couple hundred years, after which, 20 years for a signal is not really all that much longer.
if you had a robot probe that could go FTL, you wouldn't need to wait for a signal, just build it to travel back.
it would have to be nuclear powered, some material with a long half life.
Originally posted by: Oscar1613
Originally posted by: So
Originally posted by: dman
I wonder what the scientists on that planet would calculate the temperature on MARS to be based on the size of our sun and it's perceived distance from it? I'm just guessing that Mars probably looks like a reasonably hospitable planet from 20LY away.
That said, It's still cool information. That is, until we see the colony and war ships heading towards us that left 19.9years ago at the speed of light.![]()
Mars is pretty habitable. I mean, we could, with current technology build a self sustaining colony. The hard part is getting the stuff to build it over there. Same for Venus, which would be the perfect home for a "cloud city" but we can't afford to send people there...yet.
yeah and the temperatures that can melt lead and constant sulfuric acid rain... piece of cake to inhabit
