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• _niko

  First skynet now this. The future we were promise is finally here!

  

  • And then..
    http://nitrogliserin…– detritus

  

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  Dog-earJan 16, 12, 7:53 a.m. – Permalink

• GeorgesII

  Detritus here is what I wrote,
  "mono, you were probably the kind of person who were saying that another earth like planet were impossible 15 years ago or photographing black holes, or communicating world wide on a handset or eating kraft dinner"

  1: off course photographing a black hole is impossible but photographing the plasma sucked in will reveal it,
  what scientist expect to find
  

  

  
  link to article
  http://www.physorg.com/news/2012…

  2: earth like planet, the idea was inconceivable 20 years ago,
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/scienc…
  bonus: documentary
  &feature=channel_video_title

  

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  Dog-earJan 16, 12, 8:06 a.m. – Permalink

• GeorgesII

  link from nasa
  http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/…
  http://www.nasa.gov/mission_page…
  http://www.skymania.com/wp/2011/…
  obligatory scientific claim
  

  

  

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  Dog-earJan 16, 12, 8:09 a.m. – Permalink

• detritus

  Unfortunately, media speculation about 'Earth-like' planets tends to be the product of the over-inflated imaginings of eager press-releasing scientists and non-fact-checking journos.

  ALL we know about extra-solar planets is *roughly* their size and *roughly* their orbital period around their parent star, from which we can hopefully speculate onwards.

  You'll note that in the second paragraph of that Beeb thing it says 'models suggest a temperature of..'. Which applies to any chemical constituencies.

  We're abat least 15-20 years off from being able to directly measure the chemistry of extra-solar planets (with the next generation of telescopes, some of which *might* be able to spectroscopically analyze atmosphere of far-flung worlds) - 'til then, everything is imagination and good wishings.

  • I suppose this all depends upon your definition of 'Earth-like' though.– detritus1/2

    Don't shoot the messenger mate,
    a good start is better than nothing– GeorgesII2/2

  

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  Dog-earJan 16, 12, 8:14 a.m. – Permalink

• monospaced

  Thanks for the clarification, detritus. I was hoping this wasn't some "free energy" thing. Thanks again.

  Regarding "Earth-like" planets, the "proof" is in the statistics. There are sweet spots for size, distance from a sun, etc that make for possible planets like ours, and the sheer number of possibilities makes their existence a no-brainer. Yet, searching for them is almost pointless as communicating and/or traveling between them IS impossible.

  • yep, but makes us think our kids will be able to escape this planet– GeorgesII1/5

    that's what they said in the '50s and '60s– monospaced2/5

    :(
    
    have you forgotten balloon boy?– GeorgesII3/5

    there are no resources for exploration anymore, it's really sad– monospaced4/5

    maybe the private enterprises will get into space travel, but I hold no hopes for NASA anymore– monospaced5/5

  

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  Dog-earJan 16, 12, 8:20 a.m. – Permalink

• GeorgesII

  btw: have you heard of the 100 year starship?
  there are so many project currently going on, it's hard tracking them all
  http://www.100yss.org
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/scienc…

  • yes– monospaced

  

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  Dog-earJan 16, 12, 8:27 a.m. – Permalink

• ernexbcn

  Numbers guy?

  • don't you have some ipad to go advertise, we're somehow trying to have an interresting conversation here, grow up– georgesIII1/4

    joke isn't funny when it's used on a long-time qbn member– monospaced2/4

    :D– monospaced3/4

    I don't even own an iPad.– ernexbcn4/4

  

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  Dog-earJan 16, 12, 10:47 a.m. – Permalink

• ernexbcn

  @georgesIII why are you always referring to iPads or Apple stuff on threads that are not about that, I think you are obsessed.

  The bridge is still on sale, let me know.

  • How much?– georgesIII

  

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  Dog-earJan 16, 12, 11:27 a.m. – Permalink