NASA discovers 7 earth-like planets in near solar system!

[Helxig 45,394]

1 hour ago, En_Sabah_Nur said:

...and don't forget swapping microbial diseases...  

 

Probably a good thing there are none nearby or we'd all be wiped out by now  

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25 minutes ago, Helxig said:

Probably a good thing there are none nearby or we'd all be wiped out by now  

More so us to them...  

 

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5 hours ago, Helxig said:

helped each other, blended our culture

sis not to ruin your fantasy but people can't even handle different cultures on this planet, what do you think they would do if they met aliens? 

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I'll tell ya, we would either colonize them or they would colonize us 

 

[Emigrante 9,994]

This is exciting and all but why Am I always feeling like it doesn't matter that much just because I think with the things so important like this it should be all over the news. 

edit: I'm eating my words right now. Just saw it at the NEWS. 

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8 hours ago, Gagaloo92 said:

Traveling at the speed of light, it would take 39 years. 

Right now with our current technology that is capable of sending humans across space can't go anywhere near the speed of light. 

So it would take hundreds of years if not thousands or tens of thousands. Basically not possible at all, and this is for a solar system that is relatively close to us. 

Hi since you seem smart can you explain how they are able to SEE into a place that is tens of thousands of years away? How is there a telescope to do that? How do they SEE these planets and know that they can have life? 

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22 hours ago, monketsharona said:

Oh God ! 

don't call my name, don't call my name

 

[Born Brave 2,072]

This is sooooo exciting. I just wish we had a way to get there faster than 40 years. If we launched today at the speed of light it would take 40 years to get there..... 

That's not the challenge though. NASA is working on hyper fusion reactors that should be able to propulse a capsule at that speed, or faster even- the issue is having a capsule that can endure the stresses of that velocity and not disintegrate. 

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1 hour ago, Kenon Sings said:

Hi since you seem smart can you explain how they are able to SEE into a place that is tens of thousands of years away? How is there a telescope to do that? How do they SEE these planets and know that they can have life? 

That's a good question. We can see the place because light has traveled to us from there. All sight is really is light bouncing off things and going into our eyes, which our brain then translates into an image that we see.

We can see the planets in that place because it's close enough that our telescopes can capture an image from the light. But we couldn't get such a good image from a place that is 1 million light years away, for instance, since it's so far telescopes could only pick out the light coming from it and not get an image.

Also, the light we do see from that area took 39 years to get to us (hence 39 light-years), so in reality we are seeing that solar system as it was 39 years ago and not as it is today.

This goes for every star, galaxy, celestial object, etc. out there. Because light must travel to us to see it, we are always seeing the stars and space as it was in the past. So in reality when you look up at the night sky or even the sun, you're literally looking into the past. Pretty cool!

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10 hours ago, Gagaloo92 said:

Traveling at the speed of light, it would take 39 years. 

Right now with our current technology that is capable of sending humans across space can't go anywhere near the speed of light. 

So it would take hundreds of years if not thousands or tens of thousands. Basically not possible at all, and this is for a solar system that is relatively close to us. 

we could send babies, they grow up, and they can keep reproducing for generations, and so on 

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8 hours ago, John Slayne said:

sis not to ruin your fantasy but people can't even handle different cultures on this planet, what do you think they would do if they met aliens? 

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I'll tell ya, we would either colonize them or they would colonize us 

 

Yeah I went on to explain how we would f.uck everything up. Don't worry, I understand how stupid humans are... we ruin literally everything...

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Very cool!

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It's the beginning of our Start Wars era y'all. We'll finally all come together here on Earth only to then start fighting with other planets. 

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6 hours ago, Gagaloo92 said:

That's a good question. We can see the place because light has traveled to us from there. All sight is really is light bouncing off things and going into our eyes, which our brain then translates into an image that we see.

We can see the planets in that place because it's close enough that our telescopes can capture an image from the light. But we couldn't get such a good image from a place that is 1 million light years away, for instance, since it's so far telescopes could only pick out the light coming from it and not get an image.

Also, the light we do see from that area took 39 years to get to us (hence 39 light-years), so in reality we are seeing that solar system as it was 39 years ago and not as it is today.

This goes for every star, galaxy, celestial object, etc. out there. Because light must travel to us to see it, we are always seeing the stars and space as it was in the past. So in reality when you look up at the night sky or even the sun, you're literally looking into the past. Pretty cool!

 I've heard of this and it's crazy. But why the past? Does that mean objects in the sky appear to be moving slower in time due to their distance? For example, if we put a copy of Earth 100 lightyears away and looked at it through a microscope, we'd see what was happening in 1917? Or would we have to wait until 2117 to look and see 2017 replaying? 

I heard someone say that if someone 100 million lightyears away were to find Earth through a telescope, and could see what it's like on the surface, they would see dinosaurs to to it being so far away into the past (or however far Earth would have to be to see the past).  Is that true?

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5 minutes ago, ZacharyMark said:

 I've heard of this and it's crazy. But why the past? Does that mean objects in the sky appear to be moving slower in time due to their distance? For example, if we put a copy of Earth 100 lightyears away and looked at it through a microscope, we'd see what was happening in 1917? Or would we have to wait until 2117 to look and see 2017 replaying? 

I heard someone say that if someone 100 million lightyears away were to find Earth through a telescope, and could see what it's like on the surface, they would see dinosaurs to to it being so far away into the past (or however far Earth would have to be to see the past).  Is that true?

oh my god

i did not know this 

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10 minutes ago, Decodekid said:

oh my god

i did not know this 

I could just be talking nonsense, but I think I understand a little. But I actually don't think the dinos would be seen. It would just be events happening now and in the future I think. Idk.