Earthlike planet discovered!

[theVOID]

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?

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.

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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.'

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.

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?"