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Astronomers spot most Earth-like planet yet
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Astronomers spot most Earth-like planet yet
April 18, 2014 at 6:33 pm (This post was last modified: April 18, 2014 at 6:37 pm by Rampant.A.I..)
(April 18, 2014 at 11:22 am)FlyingNarwhal Wrote:
(April 18, 2014 at 11:14 am)rasetsu Wrote:


That actually sounds pretty cool, I wonder if the people on board would ever forget what their mission was though. I would also wonder if over generations some kind of religion forms on the ship that is shaped by their mission.


Anyways, solar sails anyone?

There's a whole subgenre of Sci-Fi written around this. Orson Scott Card had a series called "The Ships of Earth" about a far-flung colony planet in their medieval era, who had built a mythology around their origin, and enshrined the original colony ships as temples.


(April 18, 2014 at 1:03 pm)Marsellus Wallace Wrote:
(April 18, 2014 at 11:14 am)rasetsu Wrote: [hide][Image: GSS1V1101-0.jpg]


But at a very high speeds , 50% the speed of light , Time will go slower by 50% in that ship and 100 years would go by and for that ship it would only be 50 years passed away.

Imagine if that ship goes with that speed of 99% the speed of light .
Time dilation is fun. The Ender's Game series (also Card) has characters who are near demigods, because of legendary deeds when they return hundreds of years later because of time relativity.
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RE: Astronomers spot most Earth-like planet yet - by Cato - April 17, 2014 at 8:59 pm
RE: Astronomers spot most Earth-like planet yet - by Cato - April 19, 2014 at 6:12 am
RE: Astronomers spot most Earth-like planet yet - by Sedna - April 17, 2014 at 11:40 pm
Astronomers spot most Earth-like planet yet - by Rampant.A.I. - April 18, 2014 at 6:33 pm

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