Guest Fluke Posted October 17, 2012 Share Posted October 17, 2012 Earth sized planet found in the nearest star system to us! />http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1241/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Posted October 17, 2012 Share Posted October 17, 2012 Bloomin' hell! That's just down the road (in astronomical terms...). You can bet where we'll be heading on our first interstellar mission, if ever we can figure out a way to get there... Folding space, anyone? Let's put our heads together... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheila Posted October 17, 2012 Share Posted October 17, 2012 yes somebody said in the shoutbox this morning that they had found earth size planet, you up for a visit then craig Sheila Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Posted October 17, 2012 Share Posted October 17, 2012 Hell yeah! Let's start a space programme... How hard can it be? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Posted October 17, 2012 Share Posted October 17, 2012 It doesn't sound that far when you say only 4.3 light years away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Fluke Posted October 17, 2012 Share Posted October 17, 2012 Look up nuclear pulse propulsion on wikipedia - lots of theoretically possible methods of getting instellar spacecraft to Alpha Centauri within 50 to 350 years! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Posted October 17, 2012 Share Posted October 17, 2012 So basically a one way trip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Posted October 17, 2012 Share Posted October 17, 2012 Look up nuclear pulse propulsion on wikipedia - lots of theoretically possible methods of getting instellar spacecraft to Alpha Centauri within 50 to 350 years! But if that's travel by conventional means (e.g. moving from A to B in a line) then all sorts of havoc will play out... By the time you get to Andromeda (say, in 50 years) 3 million years will have passed on Earth! Then there's the paradox that goes with this... Makes my head hurt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cosmic dave Posted October 17, 2012 Share Posted October 17, 2012 4.3 light years = 2.52775492 × 1013 miles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Fluke Posted October 17, 2012 Share Posted October 17, 2012 Alpha Centauri is a bit closer than the Andromeda Galaxy Craig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Posted October 17, 2012 Share Posted October 17, 2012 Blonde moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Kheldar Posted October 17, 2012 Share Posted October 17, 2012 I'm doing sums off the top of my head, but I don't think time dilation is that bad? At 0.5c 1 day on the ship is 1.15 days back on Earth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daz Type-R Posted October 18, 2012 Share Posted October 18, 2012 I don't know why you would want to go, is it not orbiting it's sun closer than mercury is to ours, so hot, hot, hot!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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