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RE: Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star
August 25, 2016 at 11:51 pm
The construction of the array is what I was referring to. A hybrid craft solves all of the same problems, is more robust, and provides greater utility.
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RE: Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star
August 25, 2016 at 11:55 pm
(August 24, 2016 at 5:06 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: With an orbit that close, would it not be locked-in gravitationally?
Well Proxima Centauri is pretty damned small.
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RE: Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star
August 26, 2016 at 1:46 am
(August 25, 2016 at 11:55 pm)ScienceAf Wrote: (August 24, 2016 at 5:06 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: With an orbit that close, would it not be locked-in gravitationally?
Well Proxima Centauri is pretty damned small.
Sure, but an orbit that close, a period that short, indicates a tight gravity-well.
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RE: Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star
August 26, 2016 at 1:56 am
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With the way we're destroying this planet, how likely is it that the majority is going to be picked?
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RE: Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star
August 26, 2016 at 1:57 am
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So educate me, AF.
Are there any habitable planets out there we can actually get to in this point in time?
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RE: Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star
August 26, 2016 at 2:01 am
Nope.
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RE: Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star
August 26, 2016 at 3:09 am
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(August 26, 2016 at 1:57 am)Bella Morte Wrote: So educate me, AF.
Are there any habitable planets out there we can actually get to in this point in time?
It's not clear where the next habitable planet is - because we don't yet know which ones of the potentially habitable ones have nice atmospheres. This will slowly change now with spectroscopic investigations of planet atmospheres becoming more and more feasible. For proxima b, there are e.g. concrete plans how to do it. Remember that if we'd detect venus from far away, we'd count it as a planet in the habitable zone and wouldn't know that it suffers from runaway greenhouse effect before studying its atmosphere
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RE: Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star
August 26, 2016 at 3:10 am
Oh, science, you.
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RE: Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star
August 26, 2016 at 6:28 am
(August 26, 2016 at 3:09 am)Alex K Wrote: (August 26, 2016 at 1:57 am)Bella Morte Wrote: So educate me, AF.
Are there any habitable planets out there we can actually get to in this point in time?
It's not clear where the next habitable planet is - because we don't yet know which ones of the potentially habitable ones have nice atmospheres. This will slowly change now with spectroscopic investigations of planet atmospheres becoming more and more feasible. For proxima b, there are e.g. concrete plans how to do it. Remember that if we'd detect venus from far away, we'd count it as a planet in the habitable zone and wouldn't know that it suffers from runaway greenhouse effect before studying its atmosphere
Appreciate the reply.
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RE: Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star
August 26, 2016 at 10:18 am
(August 25, 2016 at 9:56 am)Alex K Wrote: OMG she sneezed!!! 
The important question is: what color is the poop, orrange or greenish blackish? 
Greenish. It started like something that could fuel nuclear reactors, but now is a nice consistent greenish poo.
Turns out babies sneeze and its a good thing according to the kids doc.
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