Posted on 08/02/2018 1:53:13 PM PDT by ETL
Nanu Nanu
Even moving at 1 million miles per hour, or over 5 times the speed of light, it would still take over 671 years to get there. Pack a lunch!
Bo Ma?
Is that a name or a fortune cookie?
They use Hipparcos Satellite to measure the distance using parallax.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipparcos
Basically, you look at the star while we are on one side of the Sun, comparing it’s location to the stars that are visually around it, then, in 6 months, check it again.
Using Trig, you know that the baseline distance from the two points is 186,000,000 million miles (approx), and you know the angle at the apex where the star is and the angles from the two earth positions.
I recommend reading “Parallax” by Alan Hirshfeld (if it can be found is about 15 years old now). Great read on how astronomers made this work.
Hey! They discovered Vulcan.
Spock, come and take me to the stars!
“The eight times gravity worries me more.”
Me, too.
I’m trying to lose ten pounds and that’s hard enough. Imagine trying to lose eighty pounds instead!
Check your math again.
Should be able to reach it in three jumps in Elite Dangerous.
i’m aware of that
Space is a vacume. There is nothing there. You can’t bend nothing.
Means we will NEVER be where it is.
You or I probably will never be there.
Maybe the people that follow us might.
Eight times the mass does not mean eight times the surface gravity.
The author ignited a tweet storm by using the now socially unacceptable term "dwarf" star, rather than the preferred, "little person" star.
“Does the author have any idea of the actual distance and the fact that the methodology that discovers these planets is at best unproven.”
Yes but that makes it as scientifically based as global warming. We should start shipping all Democrats and Muslims there immediately to create a marxist Utopia. They can send us updates occasionally and we can ignore them.
Maybe they mean this kind of super;
Adult material warning;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=77&v=weelryxQx48
Yeah, but if you do a million miles per second it will just take a few years.
Uhmmm...its ~16 light years away. Traveling at 5x the speed of light, it would take 3.2 years. Now, traveling at 1,000,000 mph, well, that would take ~11,000 years. Either way...were not getting there any time soon
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.