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Solar system similar to ours found 90 light years away

Originally posted by: conjur
Originally posted by: brigden
Originally posted by: Jmmsbnd007
E.T. phone home?
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Imagine the long distance charges on a 90 light year away call...
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Don't think Carrot Top could help ya there!
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not even
Piazza, Alf, Emmit Smith, Hulk Hogan, John Stamos, Terry Bradshaw, Reginald Vel Johnson, Denise Richards, David Arquette, Candace Bergan, and Chathrine Zeta Jones-Douglas

could help
 
Originally posted by: Jmmsbnd007
E.T. phone home?
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I wonder if that 'Can you hear me now? Good' dude will be out that way soon...

Maybe we better get there physically before our radio signals reach it, don't want a screwed up vision of us.
 
Originally posted by: brigden
Originally posted by: Jmmsbnd007
E.T. phone home?
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Imagine the long distance charges on a 90 light year away call...
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No worries. By the time your phone call reaches that solar system, you are long dead.
 
Originally posted by: Bootprint
Originally posted by: Jmmsbnd007
E.T. phone home?
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I wonder if that 'Can you hear me now? Good' dude will be out that way soon...

Maybe we better get there physically before our radio signals reach it, don't want a screwed up vision of us.
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At least they'll hear the Beatles before the New Kids On The Block.

We'll be OK.
 
Originally posted by: Bootprint
Originally posted by: Jmmsbnd007
E.T. phone home?
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I wonder if that 'Can you hear me now? Good' dude will be out that way soon...

Maybe we better get there physically before our radio signals reach it, don't want a screwed up vision of us.
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Well, we have about 35 years or so until that first broadcast by Hitler reaches them...
 
cool beans.

btw, silverpig, why can't I ever meet the type of girl that wants me to teach her how to download pr0n? 😛
 
Originally posted by: HappyPuppy
Wow, if we could travel at the speed of light it would only take four and a half generations to get there.
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What's the formula for figuring this out? How long in human years does it take to travel just one light year away?
 
Originally posted by: Stratum9
Originally posted by: HappyPuppy
Wow, if we could travel at the speed of light it would only take four and a half generations to get there.
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What's the formula for figuring this out? How long in human years does it take to travel just one light year away?
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You can go 1 light year in 1 year at the speed of light.
 
Exactly. One light year = the distance that light travels in a year. So, if we could travel at the speed of light, it'd take us 90 years to get there.
 
Actually if you were the person travelling at the speed of light no time would pass for you. Everything else around you would be 90 years older though. Fun!
 
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