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Earthlike planet discovered!
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Very cool but scientists have had their eyes set on other Earth-Like planets before this (I can't remember which ones though for some reason...)
I wonder which God created the life on that planet...if there is any. Quote:"An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. " 
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925 Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
Granted
 This si still awesome news, especially considering the relative ease in which this planet was discovered.
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The jesus freaks will simply insist that their sky daddy created this too. Nothing dissuades the truly ignorant in their quest for 'god.'
RE: Earthlike planet discovered!
September 29, 2010 at 10:59 pm
(This post was last modified: September 29, 2010 at 11:01 pm by TheDarkestOfAngels.)
(September 29, 2010 at 10:16 pm)theVOID Wrote: Granted No kidding. If it really is an M-type planet (or even a close approximation of one), then only good things can follow. What's great news about it is that if we can build a ship fast enough, we won't need a star-trek level ship to reach it. A ship that can travel even half the speed of light (for a one-way 40 year journey) would be more than enough to reach it within a lifetime (and a very nice retirement for an initial crew of 20-year-olds.) The implications are only better if you consider near-light travel in which the lorentz factor can cut the journey much shorter (for the crew making the trip.) Still - in stellar terms - the possibility of an "M-Class" planet so close to us is beyond amazing. It's in the territory of "ths is better than we could have possibily hoped." I would like to propose to NASA that 'habitable' planets be classified as "Roddenberry-Class" planets. (Lucas can have the classification of a hot methane-based gas giant.)
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925 Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
Travelling near light speed would induce a much less desirable consequence of the lorentz factor, relativistic mass
 It would make everything aboard gain a ridiculous amount of mass and possibly cause the ship and everyone in it to implode Not sure what you mean by M-Class though, where are you getting this rating mechanism?
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(September 29, 2010 at 11:15 pm)theVOID Wrote: Travelling near light speed would induce a much less desirable consequence of the lorentz factor, relativistic mass The increased mass only matters for anything affected by the ship's relative momentum. It wouldn't cause the ship to become a black hole. It is a neat way to turn a rock into a weapon of mass destruction, however, if can accelerate a high-density object to nearly the speed of light, you can cause a huge amount of damage to whatever you hit if the rock were big enough. The classification system I used (such that it is) is based on Star Trek's system - in which "M-Class" is the same thing as "Earthlike" - otherwise known as "we can shoot on-location instead of a green-room" (for the newer television series) or "we can shoot on an actual location instead of fake rocks painted into a different color." (for the older television series.)
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925 Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan  (September 29, 2010 at 10:57 pm)Minimalist Wrote: The jesus freaks will simply insist that their sky daddy created this too. Nothing dissuades the truly ignorant in their quest for 'god.' That's fine. We just send them all there with all of their literature on the sky-daddy subject and pretend the whole thing never happened. RE: Earthlike planet discovered!
September 30, 2010 at 12:02 am
(This post was last modified: September 30, 2010 at 12:04 am by theVOID.)
(September 29, 2010 at 11:28 pm)TheDarkestOfAngels Wrote: The increased mass only matters for anything affected by the ship's relative momentum. It wouldn't cause the ship to become a black hole. It is a neat way to turn a rock into a weapon of mass destruction, however, if can accelerate a high-density object to nearly the speed of light, you can cause a huge amount of damage to whatever you hit if the rock were big enough. Sorry that was a brain fart. You're correct, I think, thought I don't think stating it as "affected by the ship's relative momentum" is quite the right way of putting it, rather, while you are travelling at near c relative to everything else you are still at a stand still and everything is moving away from you at near c and from your perspective they are the ones gaining mass, from all other frames of reference you appear to be gaining mass as you approach c. correct? Quote:The classification system I used (such that it is) is based on Star Trek's system - in which "M-Class" is the same thing as "Earthlike" - otherwise known as "we can shoot on-location instead of a green-room" (for the newer television series) or "we can shoot on an actual location instead of fake rocks painted into a different color." (for the older television series.) That's why I haven't heard of it I hate that show.(September 29, 2010 at 11:35 pm)Shell B Wrote:(September 29, 2010 at 10:57 pm)Minimalist Wrote: The jesus freaks will simply insist that their sky daddy created this too. Nothing dissuades the truly ignorant in their quest for 'god.' NO THEY CAN'T HAVE IT, IT'S MYYYYYNE! Besides, after a few generations on that planet they would all think that they were put there by a god, and after several more generations they'd be looking out at the stars thinking "how fucking cool is it that god made this planet just for us?"
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