NASA Announcement Tomorrow

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I'm gonna try and earn enough money to get myself frozen for a few centuries and hope someone figures out a way to bring me back to life even if it was just for an extra 24hrs.
 
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Just heard the announcement. Cellular life found on Mars. They vowed to have the first Martian abortion clinic open and operational in three months.
 
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alexmanu said:
I'm gonna try and earn enough money to get myself frozen for a few centuries and hope someone figures out a way to bring me back to life even if it was just for an extra 24hrs.
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Can you give my regards to Bender? Best robot I never met.

Come to think of it, what's VN's archive policy? I'd like him to see this post.
 
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Through_The_T said:
Cool if it's a habitable planet. Now, let's get there.
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It would take hundreds if not a thousand years for humans to possess the technology to travel such a far distance. If you were to board a ship and launched it towards this destination, you would be dead by 200 years before the ship actually arrived on the outskirts of the zones we are exploring. These planets make the New Horizons mission seem like a drive to the local Wal-Mart. It really is nuts to think about how incredibly massive the universe truly is.
 
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mrorange211 said:
It would take hundreds if not a thousand years for humans to possess the technology to travel such a far distance. If you were to board a ship and launched it towards this destination, you would be dead by 200 years before the ship actually arrived on the outskirts of the zones we are exploring. These planets make the New Horizons mission seem like a drive to the local Wal-Mart. It really is nuts to think about how incredibly massive the universe truly is.
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Wormholes dude. Or we could find another way to bend space. There's a chance! Plus all those UFO crazies could end up being right and the extraterrestrials give us the technology. hehe
 
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mrorange211 said:
It would take hundreds if not a thousand years for humans to possess the technology to travel such a far distance. If you were to board a ship and launched it towards this destination, you would be dead by 200 years before the ship actually arrived on the outskirts of the zones we are exploring. These planets make the New Horizons mission seem like a drive to the local Wal-Mart. It really is nuts to think about how incredibly massive the universe truly is.
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I have a book under my bed that disagrees with your assessment. Sorry, not trying to be confrontational. But the science disagrees.














It says "Don't Panic" on the cover.
 
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mrorange211 said:
It would take hundreds if not a thousand years for humans to possess the technology to travel such a far distance. If you were to board a ship and launched it towards this destination, you would be dead by 200 years before the ship actually arrived on the outskirts of the zones we are exploring. These planets make the New Horizons mission seem like a drive to the local Wal-Mart. It really is nuts to think about how incredibly massive the universe truly is.
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It could be done now if we had the will to spend the money and risk the lives.
 
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mrorange211 said:
It would take hundreds if not a thousand years for humans to possess the technology to travel such a far distance. If you were to board a ship and launched it towards this destination, you would be dead by 200 years before the ship actually arrived on the outskirts of the zones we are exploring. These planets make the New Horizons mission seem like a drive to the local Wal-Mart. It really is nuts to think about how incredibly massive the universe truly is.
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I agree that we're not close to having the technology to get there, but I wouldn't be surprised if we could within 200 years. Science and tech capability is growing at an exponential rate. Things that seemed impossible 70 years ago are now everyday things.
 
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Don't get me wrong I hope it is sooner, and it very well could be if we had another space race of some kind. But at the same time this isn't Interstellar as much as I wish it was. We have zero access to wormholes, and haven't even made it to Mars for Christ's sake.
 
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mrorange211 said:
It would take hundreds if not a thousand years for humans to possess the technology to travel such a far distance. If you were to board a ship and launched it towards this destination, you would be dead by 200 years before the ship actually arrived on the outskirts of the zones we are exploring. These planets make the New Horizons mission seem like a drive to the local Wal-Mart. It really is nuts to think about how incredibly massive the universe truly is.
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This! It's so much further out than we've ever been able to study before and it's still such a tiny fraction of what's out there!

Who remembers WoodsmanVol, btw? Haven't seen him in a while but if I had to guess he went back to his home planet. Loved reading that guy's posts
 
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What we need to do is allow NASA to sell commercial space travel to fund whatever else they want to do.
 
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Maybe since the "new" Earth is actually older than us, they have life that is far advanced than us and will actually contact us first.
 
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NASA discovers planet Kepler-452b the closest yet to Earth | Tech | Technology & Gaming News & Reviews | Daily Star

It's the most exciting discovery in over 1,000 years and has been dubbed "Earth's Bigger, Older Cousin".

US space agency NASA, has just found a new Earth-sized world and it could contain alien life.

The planet, named Kepler-452b, sits in a habitable zone of a star that's similar to our sun and has perfect temperatures for water and life.

What's known about the planet is that it's about 60 percent larger than Earth, placing it in a class of planets dubbed "super-Earths".

While its make-up are not yet determined, previous research suggests that planets the size of Kepler-452b are likely to be rocky.

Similar to the Earth, Kepler-452b orbits its star every 385 days and has almost the same temperature as our sun.

NASA scientists are keen to point out that they can't be certain if Kepler-452b can support life or not.

But this is the closest planet yet to our own.
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And the official NASA release:

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-kepler-mission-discovers-bigger-older-cousin-to-earth

While Kepler-452b is larger than Earth, its 385-day orbit is only 5 percent longer. The planet is 5 percent farther from its parent star Kepler-452 than Earth is from the Sun. Kepler-452 is 6 billion years old, 1.5 billion years older than our sun, has the same temperature, and is 20 percent brighter and has a diameter 10 percent larger.

The Kepler-452 system is located 1,400 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus. The research paper reporting this finding has been accepted for publication in The Astronomical Journal.
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Might take a few minutes to get there...
 
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