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Posted: 2/20/2017 8:39:27 PM EDT
NASA will hold a news conference at 1 p.m. EST Wednesday, Feb. 22, to present new findings on planets that orbit stars other than our sun, known as exoplanets. The event will air live on NASA Television and the agency's website. View Quote Wonder what it could be? NASA announcement eta to fix title |
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View Quote ya got me. title fixed |
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Need some good solar system youtubes to watch tonight. any recommendations?
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Since it's beyond our solar system, that would eliminate Planet 9.
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Considering the number of known exoplanets today, the only things I can think of worthy of a big news conference right now are if a habitable exoplanet was confirmed at the Alpha Centauri binary, or one of the terrestrial exoplanets at Tau Ceti or Epsilon Eridani was confirmed in the habitable zone.
Any of those would be huge news; all three of those systems are reachable in reasonable time periods without ever developing FTL. EDIT: Actually, if they have any new major finding about Proxima Centauri b that would be big too. Quoted:
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two gay planets found orbiting non binary gender star. You forgot the Muslim comet. Is that the one where they all commit suicide simultaneously to join the aliens behind it? |
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And I just got finished watching Independence Day 2. We need to find a way to kill these bastards before we even talk to them or see them.
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Considering the number of known exoplanets today, the only things I can think of worthy of a big news conference right now are if a habitable exoplanet was confirmed at the Alpha Centauri binary, or one of the terrestrial exoplanets at Tau Ceti or Epsilon Eridani was confirmed in the habitable zone. Any of those would be huge news; all three of those systems are reachable in reasonable time periods without ever developing FTL. EDIT: Actually, if they have any new major finding about Proxima Centauri b that would be big too. Is that the one where they all commit suicide simultaneously to join the aliens behind it? View Quote What do you consider a reasonable time period? |
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I was reading about some new planetary discoveries the other day. I think they called one a super earth or something? Planets orbiting stars in the goldilocks zone. A few of them. Maybe it's that?
Or you know, it's Aliens. |
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They finally found somebody that gives a f%#k about what Dan Rather has to say?
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Need some good solar system youtubes to watch tonight. any recommendations? View Quote Wal Thornhill: The Star ‘Proto-Saturn’ | EU Workshop |
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Beavis: Hey, Butt-head, do you think a man will ever land on Uranus?
Butt-head: Maybe on your anus. View Quote |
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What do you consider a reasonable time period? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Considering the number of known exoplanets today, the only things I can think of worthy of a big news conference right now are if a habitable exoplanet was confirmed at the Alpha Centauri binary, or one of the terrestrial exoplanets at Tau Ceti or Epsilon Eridani was confirmed in the habitable zone. Any of those would be huge news; all three of those systems are reachable in reasonable time periods without ever developing FTL. EDIT: Actually, if they have any new major finding about Proxima Centauri b that would be big too. Is that the one where they all commit suicide simultaneously to join the aliens behind it? What do you consider a reasonable time period? Well, a very small probe (or more smartly, a cluster of small probes to make up for ones lost to interstellar impacts) propelled to 0.5c using modern solar sails and laser technology could get to Tau Ceti or Epsilon Eridani in about 20 years without developing anything new for which the technology doesn't exist yet, then send back data in 10. Halve that for the Centauri system. That's 30 years and 15 years. Both Voyager probes have been going for 39 years and are still sending back telemetry. Using Voyager as an example, if we had sent probes to all three systems in 1977 at the same time Voyager 1 and 2 launched, we'd have gotten data back on Alpha Centauri in 1992, and Tau Ceti and Epsilon Eridani in 2007. If we sent follow-ups to gather more data, we'd have already gotten the response from the second Alpha Centauri visit around 2007, and the Tau Ceti and Epsilon Eridani follow-ups would already be halfway there. I think that's pretty reasonable. Even if you only attained half that for manned missions, you're still talking about mostly the same people who left being the ones who arrive (although you'd start pushing that for TC and EE unless you got more speed). If you could do something more along the lines of Avatar's ISV Venture Star at 0.7c, which relies on future technology but which is still well within the realm of proven physics, you're talking a much shorter time period for all of the above. |
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Please oh please let it be aliens!!! First a wall, then a Dyson Sphere. But we will make the aliens pay for the Dyson Sphere. |
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My prediction: Matt Damon is lost in space, again. Now we must rescue him, again.
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I wonder if they actually can see one and got some spectral readings from it? Water?
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NASA knows how to build up excitement over nothing, looking forward to the let down
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Dyson swarm aliens contacted us.
Said to send big ass bitches over. |
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its nothing. its always fucking nothing. This. Eggheads haven't found shit. Instead they'll babble on about finding water or some exoplanet 4 times the size of earth 20 LY away may have bacteria on it |
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They are instructing aliens how to respect and not offend Muslims.
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For the heck of it I googled last 24 hrs...
From Feb 17, 2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbWWJsHsobk |
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