Posted on 08/25/2010 9:58:27 PM PDT by Nachum
A solar system containing up to seven planets orbiting a sun-like star has been detected 127 light years from Earth.
The planetary system is believed to be the largest ever discovered beyond the sun.
Astronomers have confirmed the presence of five planets and have tantalising evidence of two more.
And it comes as Nasa has said that it plans to make an announcement about an 'intriguing' planetary system that it has discovered using the Kepler space telescope Kepler looks at the telltale 'wobble' as planets pass in front of distant stars and, earlier this year, astronomers announced that it had discovered more than 700 possible planets. The conference is scheduled for 1pm EDT (6pm BST).
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cool
I think all intelligent life is bound to have emotions for survival’s sake. We can’t be the only one under quarantine.
Needless to say, unless some new mode of transportation is invented, we are not going to be getting there anytime soon. Even if we could move at the speed of light it would still take over a century. At the fastest speeds we can get currently (and as RFlagg said, the speed of 150K mph was due to the Sun's gravitational well), even a generation spaceship (where many people get on a spaceship, and they breed over many many many many many many many many generations, until when the spaceship arrives it is the nth generation ....Earth can be considered a generation spaceship, with humans breeding as it speeds about around the sun) cannot work. 566,928 years is a long time for something bad to happen, and in space many bad things can happen with rescue being an impossibility. Food, air, energy, fuel, disease, water, system breakdowns and wear-n-tear, external impacts, loss of guidance, genetic breakdown due to interbreeding (again, 566,928 years is a long time and unless you have over a billion people in the spaceship - an impossibility - interbreeding will eventually be the case), conflict ....anyone of a myriad issues that can arise.
Conclusion - I never use the word 'impossible,' but this might be one area that may very well fit the word.
I just hope they have x-tra lobstah and lotsa buttah & no Praying Mantis bug-eye people
“muslims haven`t reached the 7 heavenly planets yet.”
Hell, they haven’t reached the 7th century yet.
“Most of the kooks can not even imagine what a light year is.”
At a dollar a mile, it’s still less than our national debt/s;)
You just boggled my mind with that! Wow! Have a link ....that is a very interesting aspect. Thanks.
Mork and Mindy won’t reach there until around 2105.
Sorry, I don’t have a link, but IIRC it was in ‘Mere Christianity’, and Lewis dealt more fully with the concept in ‘Out of the Silent Planet’ and ‘Perelandra’. This is just recollection from the miscellaneous bin in my skull, as I read this stuff decades ago.
I am also intrigued with TheThinker’s speculation.
“You are making the common mistake of assuming these visitors are not dwelling already in our solar system, so they don’t have to come each century from so far away.”
Well, of course, anything is possible.
I do not assume anything, as I really have no clue,
but in my 65+ years, including many nights outdoors and some years as a pilot, I have yet to see ANYTHING that
could be considered ET.
You and I could be ET and just do not remember it.
I will remain one that says “show me the beef”.
The anecdotal babble, as on Kook to Kook, is just noise
with zero substance or proof of anything.
Your assumptions and reaction are precisely why I don’t share openly what I saw back in June of 1970. BTW, I’m a certified field investigator for MUFON, and have yet to investigate a single case which I could not explain, thus eliminating an ‘extraterrestrial’ explanation. I’m 65, also.
Perhaps we can borrow $$ from the aliens.
They can be our new China.
They are made of...meat?
“Your assumptions and reaction are precisely why I don’t share openly what I saw back in June of 1970.”
Well, if I had an ET event, I doubt that I would share it either.
I am certainly open to anyone’s experiences, but I remain an extreme skeptic.
I can not be a denier, because I do not know.
I can not, however, be a believer until I see one
land in full public display, as in Time’s Square, or on my beach.
By the way, as you may remember, I am from west Tennessee.
(1944-2005)
bookmark and BTTT
I don’t recall this much fanfare after the discovery/naming of the previous 800 billion objects out there we’ve catalogued.
According to my calculations it would take us only 56,767 years to go 127 light-years with our our current technology (space shuttle speed going 25,000 mph or 417 miles/sec).
You and I think alike on this stuff.
If man could build a spaceship with enough fuel to travel
beyond the solar system at 150,000 mph, it will require
566,928/30 = 19,000 generations of human breeding to reach
that foreign solar system.
Nice material for science-fiction! But it really is just fiction.
As for communicating with those aliens, it will require 127 years plus for each message to reach the aliens. Which means your great-great-great-great-grandson will have to receive the answer to message sent by you (254 years+).
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