NASA's TESS spots possible 'second Earth' nearby

BGR ^ | January 7th, 2020 | Mike Wehner

[Yardstick]

Thank goodness for Earth’s magnetic field. We just about ought to have a holiday recognizing it.

[coaster123]

Close is a relative term in any scale.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Festivus ?

[Telepathic Intruder]

No, that for the rest of us.

[Bob434]

Can we move there and forbid liberals to join?

[Steve Van Doorn]

"Can we move there and forbid liberals to join?"

If we set up a base some place else and forbid the corrupted libs. They would go to war with us. Because of reasons

[Bob434]

but the good thing is liberals don’t know how to fight other than sucker punches with limp wrists-

[SunkenCiv]

If anyone is going to go there, it'll be them..

[Does so]

But, before you know it, our galaxies will cross!

[Peter ODonnell]

We can never go there, whine whine whine, so no one should have any interest in this article, or this discovery, or in this topic.

It’s like miles from anywhere.

[Adder]

I’d be willing to go...if there’s pizza.

[CurlyDave]

I’d think the Good Lord would not have put all these stars and planets in the universe if He didn’t intend us to go out there someday. Just my opinion.

Maybe He intended their inhabitants to come here.

[FLT-bird]

It is a remarkable scientific advance just in the last 20 years that we can now detect exoplanets and even glean some information about them.

Obviously the big issue that will have to be solved next for us to explore further is the propulsion problem. Chemical rockets are just not fast enough to get anywhere. Even our most advanced ion engines are still much too slow. We need something that will allow our spacecraft to achieve at least some significant fraction of the speed of light.

[DCBryan1]

How far is 5.865696E14?

[DCBryan1]

Screw moving. Shoot them to Mars. THE RED PLANET FOR THE REDS!

[DCBryan1]

We need something that will allow our spacecraft to achieve at least some significant fraction of the speed of light.

Atomic bombs via Project Orion got the ships to theoretically go REAL fast. Problem is slowing them down IIRC.

[moovova]

But...where does space go?

[lurk]

Close is a relative term. Our furthest out space probe is about .75 light days out after 40 years’ travel.

[SunkenCiv]

Gosh, that sounds familiar.

[SunkenCiv]

Exactly -- this is more evidence that the Speed of Dark is faster than the Speed of Light.