http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/index.cfm
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yay

Holyshit!

That looks awesome btw, a nice dark grey, I am weird I like gloomy looking things like rainy days.

We're going to need a definitely habitable spaceship to get there - even if we could approach lightspeed, it'll take 21 years to get there [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

if u had to guess, how many years do you think it will take before lightspeed technology is developed? and will it only be accessable to the insanely rich or everyone.

Its ok verm, were getting closer and closer to realizing why move from one place to another when you can displace your self there and not use any time. Todays quantum physics hurt the head...

Now we just need to find one with a good star.

Thats my planet. Hands off.


Get yer own

Lee, I don't think there's any chance at all that FTL spaceflight happens for centuries. Really, we haven't developed any new technologies for transportation in living memory; all modern spacecraft are still use solid fuel combustion for propulsion, very low-tech. I think TGZ's post might be closer to the final result, finding a way to manipulate space that simply doesn't require strapping a giant rocket to your butt.

Well due to relativity effects at near lightspeed, you could get there alot faster than 20 years, for the traveller atleast [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]. And with current technology! Still not something we'll ever see happening in our lifetimes though.

Time for the habitation space cruise ship...

Cool find though. Also recently they discovered a whole load more ice under the surface of Mars. We'll probably head there next... for a holiday.

Sweet! We will have a brand new planet to destroy after we are done with this one! [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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Event Horizon!! arrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

That movie has the best line ever in a horror movie. after watching the video of all the people being killed he turns and is like rite lets get the fuck out of here.

Mars is next, looks like we might even be able to get it kinda like earth in 250 years. If we get past the whole what about the microbes phase.

lol, we are never going to go lightspeed, nothing, except light, unless we find ways to break physics like crazy.

there's not enough energy in the universe for that to happen.

invader zim germ episode

NASA? Says ESO everywhere else.

NASA is just hosting this link, the OP is mistaken. We self-righteous American imperialst pigdogs do that sometimes [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

Rick, Nasa/Eso- does that really matter? [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

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lol, we are never going to go lightspeed, nothing, except light, unless we find ways to break physics like crazy.

there's not enough energy in the universe for that to happen.

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Did you really laugh out loud when you read this thread?

Anyway, I think the issues of light speed travel are apparent to pretty much everyone with an interest in the topic. Even forgetting the technical issues, it'd be a pretty impractical means of travel - if the road from here to there isn't perfectly clear when you depart, you're in trouble, 'cause you can't grab the wheel and swerve around a passing space antelope at 186,000 miles per second.

I find it interesting that nearly all science-fiction in popular media uses some alternate method of travel. Star Trek warps spacetime, Star Wars has hyperspace, Battlestar Galactica makes FTL spacefold jumps, Stargate pokes wormholes in spacetime, etc. Trying to move at extraordinary sublight velocities has pretty much been abandoned in both practical science and entertainment.

We could just send a space ship full of babies there, and by the time they get there, they'd be 21. And the whole time their in "Stasis" We would play tapes with knowledge, educational stuff, etc.

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lol, we are never going to go lightspeed, nothing, except light, unless we find ways to break physics like crazy.

there's not enough energy in the universe for that to happen.

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Did you really laugh out loud when you read this thread?


I find it interesting that nearly all science-fiction in popular media uses some alternate method of travel. Star Trek warps spacetime, Star Wars has hyperspace, Battlestar Galactica makes FTL spacefold jumps, Stargate pokes wormholes in spacetime, etc. Trying to move at extraordinary sublight velocities has pretty much been abandoned in both practical science and entertainment.

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Oh, that's right. I lol'd.

Hmm, I coulda swore Han said "we are making the jump to light speed" in star wars at one point or another.

light is too slow with the distances we're talking here.

Anyone remember that tick episode where they go the speed of lint?

"Okay look, when you finished your laundry what's the first thing you see in your pockets"
"Uhh...lint balls..?"
"exactly, now how did it get there?"
"I don't know."
"IT'S THAT FAST!"

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they're = they are
their = possession

anyhow, did we invent "stasis" at some point and I was not informed? [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

More importantly -- how would they learn/build any physical skills or competence? Stasis all of your life, with some baby Einstein videos? Not exactly ideal for our new inhabitable planet landing teams.

If we were able to get to the planet, we would probably die because of unknown diseases to which we have no immunity.

I'd laugh if it already had a mass civilization on it and they are looking at our planet as if it was a fresh one for them to colonize.