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James Johnson
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Any clues on what NASA may reveal?
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Rich Marzullo
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He's getting closer....
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Kevin Brown
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They found Vulcan.
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Petter Myhr Ness
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Full story from NASA:
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John Byrne
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Makes it seem moderately less crazy for STAR TREK TOS to have put so many Earth-like planets around Rigel.
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Eric Ladd
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It is interesting news, but like most, what I can imagine with the discovery of habitable planets will remain in my imagination. I can't help but think about what the world would be like if we were colonizing.
On a similar note, I saw this video online recently about the Fermi Paradox and loved the comic book influences in it.
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Dan Marcoux
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Before we go thinking about colonizing, keep in mind that the fastest ship we
have ever built was the Juno spacecraft that traveled to Jupiter in
approximately 5 years. It was going about 165,000 Miles per Hour.
Some back of the napkin math.....
A light year is approximately 5.88 Trillion miles (5,880,000,000,000)
( http://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/how-far-is-a-light- year)
These planets are 40 light years away (40 x 5.88 Trillion=
235,200,000,000,000 miles)
So, 235 Trillion divided by 165,000 = 1,425,454,545 hours and change to get a
ship there (if one was ready to go today)
24 hours in a day = 1,425,454,545 / 24 = 59,393,939 days and change
365 days in a year = 59,393,939 / 365 = 162,723 years for the ship to arrive....
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John Byrne
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Dan's math is the basic answer to the "Fermi Paradox." When he wasn't busy splitting atoms, Enrico addressed the question of extraterrestrials by asking If they exist, why aren't they here?The answer is, of course, the same as why we aren't there. It's a long way to Tipperary!
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Eric Ladd
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Oh yes, the concept of colonization is easy to imagine, but execution is way beyond our capability. Our imagination outreaches our capability by a large margin when it comes to space travel. Point A is rather far from Point B as you note. But gosh it is fun to imagine.
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David Miller
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Werner Herzog made an... interesting film a few years ago called "The Wild Blue Yonder," constructed from other people's documentary footage of Antarctica and outer space, with interviews he conducted himself (including Brad Dourif as a "alien"). Herzog himself said he made the film to hammer home the impossibility of human interstellar travel based on the vast distances involved, but I thought the physicists and engineers he interviewed made a compelling case for its feasibility, albeit one I didn't really understand.
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Neil Lindholm
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Bah. Turn on the warp drive and it only takes a few days. Easy.
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John Byrne
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Science fiction has given us plenty of ways to hop between worlds, but so far they've all resisted any efforts to make them practical.The Earth is the cradle of Mankind -- and we'd better get used to being stuck in that cradle!
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