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We Could Send A Spacecraft To Our Closest Stars With Electron Beams, Physicists Suggest
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| January 08, 2025
| James Felton
Posted on 01/08/2025 6:41:26 AM PST by Red Badger
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To: MtnClimber; SunkenCiv; rktman; mowowie; SuperLuminal; Cottonbay
Warp 2, Mr. Chekov!....................
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posted on
01/08/2025 6:42:47 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: Red Badger
We will never get to the stars with this method. I have absolutely zero trust in any government keeping up with a sustained multi decade effort supporting people who can’t vote because they’re billions of miles away.
To: Red Badger
I suppose going to Proxima Centauri makes more sense than going to war with France over Greenland…
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posted on
01/08/2025 6:46:30 AM PST
by
GaltAdonis
( )
To: Red Badger
All they need is money. Better clean-up around the home planet before adventuring off somewhere that probably won’t support life.
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posted on
01/08/2025 6:47:04 AM PST
by
Sequoyah101
(Donald John Trump. First man to be Elected to the Presidency THREE times since FDR.)
To: GaltAdonis
France?.....................
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posted on
01/08/2025 6:48:18 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: Red Badger
Like just about all red dwarf stars, Proxima Centauri frequently erupts with large flares that would incinerate any potentially life-bearing planets. So it’s lifeless.
To: wildcard_redneck
Suppose that we suddenly get a message from outer space that there is another planet with billions of ‘people’ on it and they want to communicate with us.
Democrats would fall all over themselves trying to get there and sign them up to vote!..........
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posted on
01/08/2025 6:50:53 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
01/08/2025 6:51:53 AM PST
by
MCF
(If my home can't be my Castle, then it will be my Alamo)
To: Sequoyah101
HAHAHA you are trying to take money away from scientists!!
Wait, how is cold fusion working out? it was supposed to go in operation decades back.
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posted on
01/08/2025 6:54:11 AM PST
by
Bobbyvotes
(Congrats to Trump/Vance tea.m. America has been saved. For a while at least. )
To: Red Badger
Hasn’t AI solved this problem yet?
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posted on
01/08/2025 6:55:14 AM PST
by
enumerated
(81 million votes my ass)
To: Red Badger
“Greenland Belongs to the EU And Will Resist ‘Attack on Sovereign Borders’, France Warns Trump”.
A story just posted here… Search FR for it if you wanna.
To: Red Badger
Yeah, I guess some uppity Frog just warned the US to leave Greenland alone.
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posted on
01/08/2025 6:56:44 AM PST
by
AnglePark
(My opinion is the most worthless thing I own.)
To: Red Badger
I agree that if there is a civilization on a planet that we can reach we would definitely try to go there and it would be well-supported by government. I would imagine we would never try to land on the planet though because of possible cross-contamination of bacteria. I wouldn’t be worried about viruses because they need to be genetically compatible with their hosts and there is zero chance of that with alien life.
To: Red Badger
The problem with ‘Physicist’ is that their heads are full of protons, neutrons and electrons... What they aren’t full of is any common sense.
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posted on
01/08/2025 6:58:59 AM PST
by
jerod
(Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
To: wildcard_redneck
Either figure out a way to create portals (bend space/time) or fuggedaboutit.
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posted on
01/08/2025 7:01:31 AM PST
by
cgbg
(It is time to pull the Deep State out of the mass media--like ticks from a dog.)
To: jerod
The problem with ‘Physicist’ is that their heads are full of morons..................
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posted on
01/08/2025 7:02:24 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: Telepathic Intruder
“Proxima Centauri frequently erupts with large flares that would incinerate any potentially life-bearing planets.” .
Ya learn something new every day! Thanks.
Although this certainly changes my long term real estate investment strategies…
LOL…
To: GaltAdonis
I suppose going to Proxima Centauri makes more sense than going to war with France over Greenland…
Why would we need to go to war with France over Greenland?
To: Red Badger
We don’t want to meet ET.
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posted on
01/08/2025 7:10:36 AM PST
by
DoodleBob
(Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s² )
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