Nobody mentioned the discovery of a planet similar to Earth?

[Mutt]

It is a bit bigger and somewhat colder, but a planet circling a star 500 light-years away is otherwise the closest match of our home world discovered so far, astronomers announced on Thursday.

The planet, known as Kepler 186f, named after NASA?s Kepler planet-finding mission, which detected it, has a diameter of 8,700 miles, 10 percent wider than Earth, and its orbit lies within the ?Goldilocks zone? of its star, Kepler 186 ? not too hot, not too cold, where temperatures could allow for liquid water to flow at the surface, making it potentially hospitable for life.

?Kepler 186f is the first validated, Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of another star,? Elisa V. Quintana of the SETI Institute and NASA?s Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif., said at a news conference on Thursday. ?It has the right size and is at the right distance to have properties similar to our home planet.?



http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/18/sc...usin.html?_r=2

[American Psycho]

My nuts are a bit bigger and colder.

[SilentKnight]

They'll receive our Hitler broadcasts in another 500,000 years.

[dyna mo]

I was gonna mention it but 500 light years away makes it kind of a distant cousin, so......I forgot about it.

[seeandsee]

Originally Posted by SilentKnight

They'll receive our Hitler broadcasts in another 500,000 years.

they will really enjoy in that shit

[idolbucks]

Originally Posted by seeandsee

they will really enjoy in that shit

Like going into a 500 year old Hungarian castle and talking in English, they won't understand it.

[AsianDivaGirlsWebDude]

How Long Would it Take to Travel to the Nearest Star?

The nearest star to Earth is our Sun.

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In the future, should mankind wish to leave the Solar System, we’ll have a huge choice of stars we could travel to, and many could have the right conditions for life to thrive. But where would we go and how long would it take for us to get there?

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First choice would probably be Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the Solar System. Part of a triple star system called Alpha Centauri; Proxima is 4.22 light years from Earth.

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Interstellar travel probably conjures up some outlandish theories about the technology we could use to get there. Star Trek‘s warp drive will have to wait and stay in the “sci-fi” category for now, it is more likely any deep space trip will take generations rather than a few days.

Now to put that in perspective, using today's technology:

Deep Space 1 would take over 81,000 years to travel the 4.3 light years (or 1.3 parsecs) from Earth to Proxima Centauri. To put that time-scale into perspective, that would be over 2,700 human generations.

If Voyager 1 was travelling in the direction of the red dwarf Proxima Centauri, how long would it take to get there? At a constant velocity of 60,000 km/hr, it would take 76,000 years (or over 2,500 generations) to travel that distance. And what if we could attain the record-breaking speed of Helios 2′s close approach of the Sun? Travelling at a constant speed of 240,000 km/hr, Helios 2 would take 19,000 years (or over 600 generations) to travel 4.3 light years.

Nuclear pulse propulsion is a theoretically possible form of fast space travel. Very early on in the development of the development of the atomic bomb, nuclear pulse propulsion was proposed in 1947 and Project Orion was born in 1958 to investigate interplanetary space travel.

In a nutshell, Project Orion hoped to harness the power of pulsed nuclear explosions to provide a huge thrust with very high specific impulse. It is a major advantage to extract maximum energy from a spacecraft’s fuel to minimize cost and maximize range, therefore a high specific impulse creates faster, longer-range spaceflight for minimum investment.

The Partial Test Ban Treaty of 1963 is largely attributed to the cancellation of Project Orion (due to the obvious design flaw that huge amounts of radioactive waste would be pumped into space), but what kind of velocities could a nuclear pulse propulsion spaceship attain?

Some estimates suggest a ballpark figure of 5% the speed of light (or 5.4×107 km/hr). So assuming a spacecraft could travel at these speeds, it would take a Project Orion-type craft approximately 85 years to travel from the Earth to Proxima Centauri.

I love this planet...



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[SuckOnThis]

Originally Posted by SilentKnight

They'll receive our Hitler broadcasts in another 500,000 years.

Radio waves travel just about the speed of light so you're a little off by about 499,550 years.

[johnnyloadproductions]

Originally Posted by SilentKnight

They'll receive our Hitler broadcasts in another 500,000 years.

Originally Posted by SuckOnThis

Radio waves travel just about the speed of light so you're a little off by about 499,550 years.

500 light years is 500 years, not 500,000.
Radio would arrive in about 500 years.

[SuckOnThis]

Originally Posted by johnnyloadproductions

500 light years is 500 years, not 500,000.
Radio would arrive in about 500 years.

Yes, that's what I said.

[Penny24Seven]

Originally Posted by johnnyloadproductions

500 light years is 500 years, not 500,000.
Radio would arrive in about 500 years.

LOL reminds me of what weighs more
A pound of feathers or a pound of gold

[American Psycho]

So my nuts will get there 500 years?

[Mr. Garibaldi]

mutt post some pics of hot teens, wtf is this planet shit

[AsianDivaGirlsWebDude]

Originally Posted by Mr. Garibaldi

mutt post some pics of hot teens, wtf is this planet shit

The future of porn(?)...





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[NaughtyRob]

Probably because its 500 light years away.

[NETbilling]

How do they actually find, analyze and photograph a planet 500 light years away?

[Jel]

these science cunts need to do a bit of outside the box thinking. All we need to do is slow light down, and everything will be much nearer, and reachable in a few hours/days.

[Matt 26z]

Originally Posted by NETbilling

How do they actually find, analyze and photograph a planet 500 light years away?

It's mostly junk science.

This modern concept that all theories must revolve around Einstein being right are what holds science back. Anyone with alternative theories is "proven" wrong merely because they conflict with Einstein's theories.

[Relentless]

Originally Posted by Matt 26z

It's mostly junk science. This modern concept that all theories must revolve around Einstein being right are what holds science back. Anyone with alternative theories is "proven" wrong merely because they conflict with Einstein's theories.

Yup, that Einstein guy was a real dumbass. Take Matt26z's word for it

They aren't proven wrong because they disagree with Einstein, they are proven wrong because nobody has been able to find a flaw in what Einstein has said about the speed of light. Until they do... his theory stands.

500 Lightyears means it takes light 500 years to get there and nothing exceeds the speed of light from point A to point B. That doesn't mean you can't get there in less than 500 years, it means you need to find a way to go there without traveling between A to B. Quantum Teleportation is the most likely precursor of interstellar travel and it has nothing to do with the speed of light.

[Relentless]

Originally Posted by NETbilling

How do they actually find, analyze and photograph a planet 500 light years away?

Spectroscope

http://www.hulu.com/watch/617730
Start at around 29 minutes... or watch the whole thing.
It's very well done. Cosmos is the best nonfiction show on television by far:

By reading the spectrum of light produced and the dark lines between each band of light they can read which elements are present. They can't see what it looks like now, they can see what it looked like 500 years ago. Add in the orbit of the planet which they can track and the size, temp of the star etc which they can also track. From that and other data they extrapolate surprisingly accurate information (as has been proven by our readings of closer objects that we have verified).

[Relentless]

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[Mutt]

Originally Posted by Matt 26z

It's mostly junk science.

This modern concept that all theories must revolve around Einstein being right are what holds science back. Anyone with alternative theories is "proven" wrong merely because they conflict with Einstein's theories.

As always, thanks for the ignorant kook opinion.

Let me guess, Einstein was a Jew, so his so called science, 'Jew science' is probably a sham, part of some grand conspiracy?

[SilentKnight]

Originally Posted by NETbilling

How do they actually find, analyze and photograph a planet 500 light years away?

Uh-oh...here we go with the Nikon vs. Canon discussion again.

[johnnyloadproductions]

Originally Posted by NETbilling

How do they actually find, analyze and photograph a planet 500 light years away?

Refer to this: http://science.howstuffworks.com/question316.htm

Gas giants, like Jupiter, are much easier to detect.
Everything will continue to improve with time, today's instruments must be very good to determine an earth object in a specified zone.

It's not uncommon to refine findings where they are off by factors or even magnitudes.

Life is probably common in the universe, complex life is probably pretty rare and there's a fair chance it kills itself before moving into space; Thank god for people like Elon Musk.

[American Psycho]

My nuts vs her chin.

[adultchatpay]

They can locate far far away planet but they can't find the missing MH370?

[fitzmulti]

Klaatu Barada Nikto

[pornmasta]

because dvtimes is in vacation...

[bushwacker]

Originally Posted by Matt 26z

It's mostly junk science.

This modern concept that all theories must revolve around Einstein being right are what holds science back. Anyone with alternative theories is "proven" wrong merely because they conflict with Einstein's theories.

Wait, what?

[freecartoonporn]

a planet circling a star 500 light-years away is otherwise the closest match of our home world discovered so far....suweet.,

[Mutt]

Originally Posted by bushwacker

Wait, what?

He's upset that Einstein somehow is holding back the breakthrough scientific theories of thousands of conspiracy kooks that flunked high school physics - it's hard to take peer reviewed work seriously when your peers are all still living in their parents' garages at 48 years old with Cheetos caught in the beards they haven't trimmed since 1993

[GregE]

Kepler 186f may very well support life as we know it, perhaps even intelligent life.

Then again, maybe not.

Let us not forget that Mars and Venus lie within the ?Goldilocks zone? of our sun.

[BIGTYMER]

Originally Posted by NETbilling

How do they actually find, analyze and photograph a planet 500 light years away?

PBS had a great show on this topic just a few weeks ago.

Basically they watch a star and monitor how long it takes a planet to orbit it. The faster/slower the orbit the closer/further away. The closer to the sun the hotter and the further away the colder. This one orbits it sun at just the right speed to be an Earth like planet.

[Scott McD]

Does this mean it will have a McDonalds ??

[marcop]

Originally Posted by Mutt

He's upset that Einstein somehow is holding back the breakthrough scientific theories of thousands of conspiracy kooks that flunked high school physics - it's hard to take peer reviewed work seriously when your peers are all still living in their parents' garages at 48 years old with Cheetos caught in the beards they haven't trimmed since 1993

Ouch...

[romeo22]

Originally Posted by AsianDivaGirlsWebDude

The future of porn(?)...





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[Rikki-Nyx]

Originally Posted by adultchatpay

They can locate far far away planet but they can't find the missing MH370?

It's on Kepler 186f

[Barry-xlovecam]

Why do you think aliens have two legs with a cock in the middle?

Until we can warp time to travel or enter a worm hole (or something else we haven't conceived of) this ''discovery'' is just food for speculation ....

Point the radio telescopes in that direction and maybe get 500-year-old reruns I guess.

[2MuchMark]

Originally Posted by SilentKnight

They'll receive our Hitler broadcasts in another 500,000 years.

Not 500,000 years, just about 422 years. If they reply, it will take 500 years not 500,000 to get back to us. But no problem, your reference is awesome.

Originally Posted by NETbilling

How do they actually find, analyze and photograph a planet 500 light years away?

Here you go:

http://kepler.nasa.gov/Mission/QuickGuide/

Basically, they can look at bright objects like suns. As a planet orbits the sun, the sun moves slightly due to the gravitational pull of the plan. This movement can be detected as color shifts known as the Doppler effect. Other ways of detecting planets can measure when a sun gets very slightly dimmer when a planet passes in front of it relative to us.

The currently do not have any photographs of planets but I read that a new generation of telescopes will be able to do it.

Originally Posted by Matt 26z

It's mostly junk science.

No, its real science.