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- GeorgesII0
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
- GeorgesII0
link from nasa
http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/…
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_page…
http://www.skymania.com/wp/2011/…
obligatory scientific claim
- detritus0
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.
- monospaced0
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 planetGeorgesII
- that's what they said in the '50s and '60smonospaced
- :(
have you forgotten balloon boy?GeorgesII - there are no resources for exploration anymore, it's really sadmonospaced
- maybe the private enterprises will get into space travel, but I hold no hopes for NASA anymoremonospaced
- GeorgesII0
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…
- ernexbcn0
Numbers guy?
- don't you have some ipad to go advertise, we're somehow trying to have an interresting conversation here, grow upgeorgesIII
- joke isn't funny when it's used on a long-time qbn membermonospaced
- :Dmonospaced
- I don't even own an iPad.ernexbcn
- ernexbcn0
@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.