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Earth-sized world 'around nearest star'

Post by cronus » Wed Aug 24, 2016 6:38 pm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-37167390

Earth-sized world 'around nearest star'

The nearest habitable world beyond our Solar System might be right on our doorstep - astronomically speaking.
Scientists say their investigations of the closest star, Proxima Centauri, show it to have an Earth-sized planet orbiting about it.
What is more, this rocky globe is moving in a zone that would make liquid water on its surface a possibility.
Proxima is 40 trillion km away and would take a spacecraft using current technology thousands of years to reach.

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Post by JimC » Thu Aug 25, 2016 1:17 am

A vast armada of spaceships containing an invasion force of alarmingly tentacled aliens from Proxima Centauri is currently en route to Earth. Their mission is to eat all earth beings who have any religious beliefs, and have interesting conversations with all the rest.

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Post by cronus » Thu Aug 25, 2016 3:06 am

JimC wrote:A vast armada of spaceships containing an invasion force of alarmingly tentacled aliens from Proxima Centauri is currently en route to Earth. Their mission is to eat all earth beings who have any religious beliefs, and have interesting conversations with all the rest.

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They've seen our movies. They ain't gonna discriminate when they get here. :coffee:
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Post by JimC » Thu Aug 25, 2016 3:10 am

Apparently religious people taste better. Atheists are far too bland for their tastes...
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Post by Tyrannical » Thu Aug 25, 2016 4:05 am

Earth is only Earth like because single cell organisms spent tens of millions of years making it so.....
A rational skeptic should be able to discuss and debate anything, no matter how much they may personally disagree with that point of view. Discussing a subject is not agreeing with it, but understanding it.
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Post by cronus » Thu Aug 25, 2016 4:24 am

Tyrannical wrote:Earth is only Earth like because single cell organisms spent tens of millions of years making it so.....
Then the day arrived when Hitler met Mussolini (Farage/Trump) and after that everything was different. :coffee:
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Post by Forty Two » Thu Aug 25, 2016 3:49 pm

They should launch an ion drive craft there now with robotic cameras and such.

I bet they could get the craft there in 25 years. Then signals would take about 4.25 years to make it back to Earth.
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Post by cronus » Thu Aug 25, 2016 4:26 pm

Forty Two wrote:They should launch an ion drive craft there now with robotic cameras and such.

I bet they could get the craft there in 25 years. Then signals would take about 4.25 years to make it back to Earth.
In half that time they could build a large temporary telescope for the same purpose and with the same resolving power as a probe. Anything there happens to be good, bad or ugly best to scope it out first.
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Re: Earth-sized world 'around nearest star'

Post by rainbow » Fri Aug 26, 2016 10:33 am

Forty Two wrote:They should launch an ion drive craft there now with robotic cameras and such.

I bet they could get the craft there in 25 years. Then signals would take about 4.25 years to make it back to Earth.
Waste of time and money.
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Re: Earth-sized world 'around nearest star'

Post by cronus » Fri Aug 26, 2016 11:18 am

rainbow wrote:
Forty Two wrote:They should launch an ion drive craft there now with robotic cameras and such.

I bet they could get the craft there in 25 years. Then signals would take about 4.25 years to make it back to Earth.
Waste of time and money.
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Re: Earth-sized world 'around nearest star'

Post by Forty Two » Fri Aug 26, 2016 1:54 pm

rainbow wrote:
Forty Two wrote:They should launch an ion drive craft there now with robotic cameras and such.

I bet they could get the craft there in 25 years. Then signals would take about 4.25 years to make it back to Earth.
Waste of time and money.
You would think that. But, that's only because you're a moron, speaking directly from your posterior.
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Re: Earth-sized world 'around nearest star'

Post by Forty Two » Fri Aug 26, 2016 1:56 pm

Crumple wrote:
rainbow wrote:
Forty Two wrote:They should launch an ion drive craft there now with robotic cameras and such.

I bet they could get the craft there in 25 years. Then signals would take about 4.25 years to make it back to Earth.
Waste of time and money.
:tup:
There is plenty more we waste money on that doesn't advance human knowledge and further our efforts to become an interplanetary species. http://www.cagw.org/
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