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Strange New Worlds: The Amazing Alien Planet Discoveries of 2013
Livescience.com ^
| December 27, 2013
| Mike Wall
Posted on 01/01/2014 3:15:13 PM PST by Farnsworth
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See more at the link. As more exoplanets are discover, better science is developed to find more. it's a very exciting field of study.
Enjoy
To: Farnsworth
It’s like going to a buffet and only being able to look at the food.
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posted on
01/01/2014 3:17:19 PM PST
by
FreedomStar3028
(Evil must be punished.)
To: Farnsworth
I wish we would develop warp drive sooner rather than later....
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posted on
01/01/2014 3:17:53 PM PST
by
GraceG
To: FreedomStar3028
it’s unfortunate thats all we will ever be able to do
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posted on
01/01/2014 3:18:33 PM PST
by
Farnsworth
(Now playing in America: "Stupid is the new normal")
To: GraceG
Yeah, thats real high science, but some are working on it. Read an article awhile back about a warp bubble. Compress space in front of the bubble and expand it behind the ship creating thrust.
It’s a LONG way from dilithium crystals, anti matter engines and Montgomery Scott.
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posted on
01/01/2014 3:22:29 PM PST
by
Farnsworth
(Now playing in America: "Stupid is the new normal")
To: Farnsworth
Just finished a cold little planet orbiting a white dwarf.
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posted on
01/01/2014 3:34:03 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: Farnsworth
Read an article awhile back about a warp bubble. Compress space in front of the bubble and expand it behind the ship creating thrust.
I saw a show last week about the research going on in that direction. They've actually managed to warp space a matter of nanometers which is really quite an accomplishment considering the fact they aren't using mass to do it.
VASIMR engines are sublight but actually have thousands of working test hours on them in the lab. They should be capable of a considerable percentage of the speed of light.
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posted on
01/01/2014 3:45:16 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: GraceG
me too! I want off this rock! leave the liberals to destroy what’s left of this planet I say.
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posted on
01/01/2014 3:54:23 PM PST
by
TexasFreeper2009
(Obama lied .. the economy died.)
To: TexasFreeper2009
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posted on
01/01/2014 4:04:13 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: Farnsworth
The most “Earth like” planet ever discovered is almost exactly the same size and mass as Earth and orbits an identical star at almost the same orbit.
It is called Venus.
I suspect that most “Earth like” exoplanets are far more Venus like.
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posted on
01/01/2014 4:20:22 PM PST
by
kennedy
(No relation to those other Kennedys.)
To: kennedy
Hard to say really. We’ve just barely scratched the surface of what we can find. Most of the rocky planets we’ve found are close to their stars where its easiest to find them. Most of those were found by Kepler looking in one very small area of the sky.
If someone were looking for earth using the transiting method, they would have to catch the earth passing in front of the sun then wait 365 days to see it again.
Personally I’ve never liked the term “Earthlike” anyway. It convinces people who don’t follow such things that scientists have literally found a planet like ours. By that standard Mercury, Venus, and Mars are all “earthlike”. Even Saturn’s moon Titan is often described as earthlike but I think I’ll pass on the vacation there.
A side note on habitable zones. People often assume the earth sits nicely in the dead center of the habitable zone around our sun. The reality is that Earth orbits in the inner 5% of the habitable zone with Mars orbiting in the outer 5 or 10 percent.
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posted on
01/01/2014 4:57:26 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: cripplecreek
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01/01/2014 5:04:32 PM PST
by
Farnsworth
(Now playing in America: "Stupid is the new normal")
To: cripplecreek
Yes, I’ve seen a couple of shows on Dr. Chang-Diaz engine. Sub light isn’t going to cut if for those long distances, but it will open up the solar system and we have some very interesting stuff right at home.
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posted on
01/01/2014 5:07:12 PM PST
by
Farnsworth
(Now playing in America: "Stupid is the new normal")
To: kennedy
depends on the star and the orbit of the planet. As the science is refined, we will get better understanding of extrasolar planets atmosphere.
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posted on
01/01/2014 5:10:11 PM PST
by
Farnsworth
(Now playing in America: "Stupid is the new normal")
To: Farnsworth
its unfortunate thats all we will ever be able to do Yes, we - you and I personally - will never step foot on other planets, but humans, or some derivative, will via Von Neumann craft with AI and a stockpile of genetic material. It may already have been going on for a billion years, and rules established more or less for competing interests as it pertains to ownership/dealing with any quasi-sentients that may be native to the rock.
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posted on
01/01/2014 5:22:53 PM PST
by
Sirius Lee
(All that is required for evil to advance is for government to do "something")
To: Sirius Lee
“Von Neumann craft”
Never heard of this before....very interesting theory and option for exploration.
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posted on
01/01/2014 5:32:05 PM PST
by
Farnsworth
(Now playing in America: "Stupid is the new normal")
To: Sirius Lee
I’m not really interested in finding intelligent life. I’d rather seek planets with conditions close enough to our own that human DNA can be adapted to them.
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posted on
01/01/2014 5:45:35 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: cripplecreek
Im not really interested in finding intelligent life. Id rather seek planets with conditions close enough to our own that human DNA can be adapted to them. There are billions of stars in our galaxy that are billions of years older so there is the possibility that we humans might not be the first ones out of the gate, so to speak.
I have to wonder if we are not the result of someone else's DNA that has adapted to this particular rock.
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posted on
01/01/2014 5:55:53 PM PST
by
Sirius Lee
(All that is required for evil to advance is for government to do "something")
To: Sirius Lee
I have to wonder if we are not the result of someone else's DNA that has adapted to this particular rock.
If that's the route God chose to send us forth to multiply, so be it.
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01/01/2014 5:57:37 PM PST
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cripplecreek
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01/01/2014 7:35:07 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
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