Nah thanks, last time someone used the term "gravity drive" to describe FTL travel, it opened a gateway to hell. Messy for all invlved.zxBARRICADExz said:anyone want to assist me in the creation of a gravity drive?
First Habitable Planet Confirmed by French Scientists
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Twenty light-years is a mind-boggling distance. Let's say the distance from Earth to the Sun, 1 AU, is one centimeter. That's 155 million kilometers in one centimeter. The nearest star to the solar system is Proxima Centauri, which is ~4.22 light-years away. If the distance from Earth to the Sun is one centimeter, the distance from Earth to Proxima Centauri would be about two and one-third kilometers away. It takes us between two to five years to travel two inches in the same scale, but the distance to Gliese 581d is ten miles .
So yes, cosmically speaking, it's very close, especially considering the Milky Way itself is around 100,000 light years in diameter, but it's still a completely unreasonable distance at our current technology level. The other thing to think about is communication. Even if we can travel faster than light, radio waves can't. Assuming they travel at the speed of light, it'd still take twenty years for us to hear anything from Gliese 581d.
That being said, if we can colonize it, that would be awesome. I'd love to experience life on a planet that isn't Earth, something that would be completely new.
So yes, cosmically speaking, it's very close, especially considering the Milky Way itself is around 100,000 light years in diameter, but it's still a completely unreasonable distance at our current technology level. The other thing to think about is communication. Even if we can travel faster than light, radio waves can't. Assuming they travel at the speed of light, it'd still take twenty years for us to hear anything from Gliese 581d.
That being said, if we can colonize it, that would be awesome. I'd love to experience life on a planet that isn't Earth, something that would be completely new.
Awesome, a habitable planet, although I will never see it as its way too far away. Maybe we can send messages though, but they would also take a hellova long time.
I remember reading an article in a popular science type magazine a little while back about an engineer who was working on a kind of plasma based engine. The goal of it was to be used to transport a crew to Mars. I don't know what the timeline would be like for a 20 light year trip, but I suppose it's not impossible...
20 light-years? This calls for warp bubble technology, get my space bender!
That interesting to hear. With all the planets out there I'm sure there was an earth like one somewhere but its interesting to know that we actually found the first one.
That interesting to hear. With all the planets out there I'm sure there was an earth like one somewhere but its interesting to know that we actually found the first one.
This is cool, though I'm not a fan of life having pre-defined parameters. Aliens could be radically different from what we're used to, but we're so convinced that life can be defined by the way it's found here that we could end up passing right by a planet covered in life, just because we don't think anything can survive there
Well we not be able to go there, but are we at least able to check if they've got civilization there already?
yup.VGC USpartan VS said:
And they hate marines.
Or they all hate spartans, whichever underhanded and slightly obvious joke you perfer.
Fucking Einstein is always ruining our fun.
We should burn everything he's ever written so we don't have to play by his rules.
We should burn everything he's ever written so we don't have to play by his rules.
"Habitable planet"
"Double the gravity"
"Dense cloud cover"
Yeah... Sounds like a reasonable conclusion...
"Double the gravity"
"Dense cloud cover"
Yeah... Sounds like a reasonable conclusion...
I think part of the issue with that is, we KNOW 100% certain that our planet can support life, because... well, look outside, or on TV, or in a mirror. If it can support life as WE know it, then there's a damn good chance of, well, either life being there or it being able to handle us if/when we get there. Realistically, set the parameters for life radically differently, such as not even needing to process oxygen, and almost any planet MIGHT have some vague form of life on it. THIS one has all the ingredients we take for granted aound here, and as such has a damn good chance of being, as the poets would say, Freaking Awesome.artanis_neravar said:
