Posted on 09/28/2011 4:05:11 PM PDT by KevinDavis
The Kepler orbiting observatory research team found more than 1,200 exoplanets in its first 136 days of operation. Using their data, other researchers are now calculating that there may be many, many more—so many, in fact, that we might find habitable worlds around one-third of all Sun-like stars.
The Kepler research team's findings, released earlier this year, revealed evidence of 1,235 exoplanets found after viewing some 150,000 target stars. That's a big haul for just a fraction of a year's work, but it's only a tiny portion of the universe.
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Yeah, just give it a few hundred, or thousands of years years.
Yeah. The folks at Auschwitz did just fine.
ML/NJ
Well if we ever get over this socialist hump and get back to real science, we will probably see some major advances in genetic alterations over the next couple of hundred years. (obviously there are moral issues but that is a long way off anyway)
Obviously we won’t ever alter a man enough to live on venus but we might see men more able to withstand higher radiation exposure or lower oxygen intake. Travel outside our solar system is pretty far away at this point anyway and it certainly doesn’t hurt to ponder it.
The fact is that humans are among the most adaptable of creatures. In a couple of generations we’ve produced bigger and stronger asians through diet alone.
There will be manned flights by private companies starting around 2014. Dragon, the SpaceX ship, is being produced on assembly lines now. Boeing is hiring crew to pilot its CTS-100. Lockheed's Orion is undergoing testing.
Russia has had problems getting rockets into orbit recently. China's Shenzhou program has teething pains.
Must have been a Rat politician running for a microphone.
Agreed. Their best stuff is unmanned.
The government sponsored manned spaceflight era is over, or should be; unless there's a military use.
Until those lazy, layabouts in the physics labs get off their duffs and build us an FTL starship, it won’t matter much.
I am around 90% close to figuring out how to directionaly fold space to allow us to literally step off of our own planet and step on to a new one, Class M I Hope. lol
I’m getting close.
When i am at 100% i shall announce my findings right here on FR.
Freepers will have first access to what ever planet they choose, Not only that, Get this, The planet of their choice can be in whatever GALAXY they choose!
The Details of this incredible discovery will be presented forthright.
Get ready........
Don’t forget
The Infinite Improbability Drive is a faster-than-light drive. It is based on a particular perception of quantum theory: a subatomic particle is most likely to be in a particular place, such as near the nucleus of an atom, but there is also a small probability of it being found very far from its point of origin (for example close to a distant star). Thus, a body could travel from place to place without passing through the intervening space (or hyperspace, for that matter), if you had sufficient control of probability.[1] According to the Guide, in this way the drive “passes through every conceivable point in every conceivable universe almost simultaneously,” meaning the traveller is “never sure where they’ll end up or even what species they’ll be when they get there,” therefore it’s important to dress accordingly.
The Guide’s entry on the drive states it was invented “following research into finite improbability, which was often used to break the ice at parties by making all the molecules in the hostess’ undergarments leap one foot simultaneously to the left, in accordance with the theory of indeterminacy”. It further explains that many respectful physicists wouldn’t go to stand for that scenario, “partly because it was a debasement of science, but mostly because they didn’t get invited to those sort of parties.”
Yea, i’m wondering that if i intentionaly crash landed on one of these planets would i be instantly offered section 8 housing, Medicaid, EBT cards, Welfare CASH, in some cases a free car with free insurance, free gas ,and free repairs?
Free cell phone, free internet, free cable tv, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc,etc?
Stargate is real... they are all Renaissance Fair worlds.
Also they look like Western Canada..
You know...You’re right!
I like to think outside the norm on this stuff. Its how I deal with insomnia.
Imagine a planet tidally locked in a close orbit to a red dwarf which in turn orbits a much larger main sequence star. One side of the planet would always face the red dwarf while the side away from the star would have a long day/night cycle as the planet orbited the dwarf.
I recently threw a twist into it by making the orbit around the large star, long and elliptical which would force a migration toward the red dwarf side of the planet every 5 or 10 years.
That’s purty. Can we send the Perrybots into that swirly thing ?
1. The detection and confirmation by the IAU of a planet with a surface environment congenial to terrestrial life, including humans;
2. This planet is uninhabited by reasoning creatures;
3. Some means of getting to the planet within a reasonable period (e.g., wormhole or starship);
4. A call for volunteer colonists, unrestricted by age, ethnicity, etc.;
5. The catch: a 51% chance of dying en route or on the new world within the first year.
How many of you would go? And would you take your family with you if families were accepted by the colonization program?
For an example of the scenario to which I here refer, please see this book.
>>> Now, imagine we go to another world that has evolved totally different analogs of bacteria, fungus and viruses. Those aliens will be right at home in our wet, nutrient filled bodies. Our immune systems won’t recognize them and we’d shortly be sprouting growths like forest fungi inside our eyelids. We wouldn’t make it a month on this new world.
I agree that is probable, but it’s not definite. You can just as easily hypothesize the organic contaminants will be too alien to affect terrestrial body chemistry. That there would be no compatibility with any biology brewed up hundreds of light years away.
>>> Habitable planets orbit 1/3 of Sun-like stars
Very misleading and sensationalized headline. I don’t think they’ve found even one habitable world. They merely have found rocky planets larger then Earth in the relatively temperate zone where water “might” exist. It also doesn’t take account of the difference of conditions between the galaxy core where most of the stars are, and the spiral arms where we are.
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