Direct imaging of four planets orbiting the star HR 8799 129 light years away from Earth
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ttystikk
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Absolutely amazing. I wonder who lives there...
Padawanbater2
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Also cool to note is this is imaging from 1888!
This thread on Reddit has more information, the creator of the clip is a guy named Jason Wang at Berkeley, he even shows up in the comments section
We will never find out. That is too far a distance for our species and it's only getting farther.
ttystikk
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I refuse to accept that.Also cool to note is this is imaging from 1888!
This thread on Reddit has more information, the creator of the clip is a guy named Jason Wang at Berkeley, he even shows up in the comments section
We will never find out. That is too far a distance for our species and it's only getting farther.
WE might not get there, but I'm building the box that will feed our not so distant progeny on their journeys among the stars.
We just need to survive the Chump first.
Padawanbater2
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How could we possibly traverse 129 light years of space to reach this solar system is one question that would need to be answered; the technical aspect of it. As well as the why and convincing people we should. Using current technology, (~mach 50) it would take us 2,580,000 years to reach this solar system. That's more than 10 times the length of time we have been established as a recognized separate species. Not to mention the expansion of space/time. I just don't see it happening unless we find a way to go light speed. Even at 125 years, going light speed, I'd say it's a giant stretch for a government like the one we have or any of the other ones around the world to invest in such a lengthy return.
PKHydro
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ttystikk
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I'm solving the problems I can, and not worrying about the ones I can't. I'll leave developing the power and the drive to others. I'm just making sure they're fed.
To answer the question about why people would go, perhaps it would be to escape their government. That's ultimately why the New World was settled by white European immigrants to begin with.
iHearAll
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Rizlared
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We know so little.
All of the known universe only makes up 1% of the universe (revised down from 4 i believe)
We possibly exist in a multi dimensional universe which we can only 'tune in' to three....four including time.
We have an incomplete model of physics
Never say never
P.s iHearAll....gotta love the wizard
Dopethrone is an all time classic
All of the known universe only makes up 1% of the universe (revised down from 4 i believe)
We possibly exist in a multi dimensional universe which we can only 'tune in' to three....four including time.
We have an incomplete model of physics
Never say never
P.s iHearAll....gotta love the wizard
Dopethrone is an all time classic
Rizlared
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Current technology....we simply couldn't.
Consider someone 100 years ago saying exactly that about traveling to the moon.
I'm sure you know of quantum entanglement, but for the benefit of anyone who doesn't...
...two sub atomic particles are related.
spin one clockwise and the other instantaneously spins anti clockwise.
Separate these particles...place one on a planet orbiting a star 1000 light years away.
Light, being the fastest thing we know of, travels at 186,000 miles per second and takes 1000 years to reach us from that star.
Still, spin one clockwise and the other instantaneously spins anti clockwise, dispite the distance.
Something we don't understand is capable of traveling vast distances instantaneously.
Even if we can't physically do it, we may be able to communicate.
Who knows? But the quantum world is a fascinating one
morgwar
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The Alcubiere drive looks promising, we just need a few hundred million metric tons of anyihydrogen and containment.
Oh and about 2/3 that in hydrogen.
Or we can bank on the singularity figuring it out for us in 30 to 50 years.
Quantum computing might give us an interdimensional hack, or decide we're a waste of time and dissappear into the cosmos.
Oh and about 2/3 that in hydrogen.
Or we can bank on the singularity figuring it out for us in 30 to 50 years.
Quantum computing might give us an interdimensional hack, or decide we're a waste of time and dissappear into the cosmos.
morgwar
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Yes sir and what's awesome is that we can alter the particles behavior by merely observing it.
NaturalFarmer
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I have always thought we will find planets with dinosaur like creatures considering our earths own timeline. Just a hunch and probably wrong.
ttystikk
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I think we'd find a few totally polluted, burned out planets, evidence of Easter Island style civilisations that destroyed themselves.
Roger A. Shrubber
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if we did pop out of the big bang, we're all traveling away from that spot at roughly the same speed. so if a planet is farther away from the galactic core than we are, its had more time to develop, and if its closer its had less. so i doubt we'll be getting any visitors from closer to the core, but we may get a few from farther out than we are. if highly intelligent people like to slum with their retarded cousins.
i grew up with star trek, and while it initially gave me hope, now i've pretty much given up on people.
i wanted a phaser, of course, but i wanted a communicator just as much. imagine, (in 1975) being able to call for help anywhere you are, being able to ask for information, never being out of touch...and they turned it into the cell phone...so fucking horny teenagers can snapchat each other, and the fucking idiot in chief can tweet us all how ignorant and insane he is.
imagine what these fucknut morons would do with a phaser?
no fucking way are we ready for warp drive.
sorry, off on a rant there....no idea what we'd find there, hope they did better than we have so far
i grew up with star trek, and while it initially gave me hope, now i've pretty much given up on people.
i wanted a phaser, of course, but i wanted a communicator just as much. imagine, (in 1975) being able to call for help anywhere you are, being able to ask for information, never being out of touch...and they turned it into the cell phone...so fucking horny teenagers can snapchat each other, and the fucking idiot in chief can tweet us all how ignorant and insane he is.
imagine what these fucknut morons would do with a phaser?
no fucking way are we ready for warp drive.
sorry, off on a rant there....no idea what we'd find there, hope they did better than we have so far
NaturalFarmer
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NaturalFarmer
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@Roger A. Shrubber @Worcester
Personally I think if the above is true, than I would also assume that our galaxy has an invisible bungee attached to our ass and will eventually begin to swing back on the pendulum as the rubber band contracts back toward the big bang. Our existence is reversed as is theirs, only theirs begins move forward time again. This contraction could just be a heartbeat pulsating. The Ying and Yang of incomprehensible shit if you will. I love hash.
Personally I think if the above is true, than I would also assume that our galaxy has an invisible bungee attached to our ass and will eventually begin to swing back on the pendulum as the rubber band contracts back toward the big bang. Our existence is reversed as is theirs, only theirs begins move forward time again. This contraction could just be a heartbeat pulsating. The Ying and Yang of incomprehensible shit if you will. I love hash.
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Roger A. Shrubber
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thats the theory actually, once we reach a point of entropy where the universe is no longer expanding, it will hit a point of equilibrium, then start to contract as entropy increases. when it hits a point of sufficient density, the bang will occur again, and it all starts over
Cx2H
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Dark matter & Dark energy is driving the expansion of the universe and it's speeding up actually. One day will be no stars in the sky they say. Who knows.
http://www.newsweek.com/dark-matter-image-universe-583114