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Earth-like planet found outside our solar system
A team of astronomers has confirmed the discovery of a planet which they claim possesses the most Earth-like conditions beyond our own world.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/38/20100930/tsc-earth-like-planet-found-outside-our-98fda55.html
what are your thoughts on this?
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/38/20100930/tsc-earth-like-planet-found-outside-our-98fda55.html
what are your thoughts on this?
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Given that it's 20LY away I've figured it out to be ~189345600000000km away from earth based on the speed of light 3x10^8m/s which would mean if we travelled at 1000km/h it would take us 21600000 years to get there. Damn.
Even if you went at 100,000km/h you would still need 216000 years to get there.
To get there in a year you would need to travel at 21600000000km/h
Essentially atm it's impossible to get there and any messages we send with todays technology will take 20 years to arrive. Our view of it is 20 years out of date as well, it could be destroyed or knocked out of orbit however unlikely as that is.
Still very cool.
Even if you went at 100,000km/h you would still need 216000 years to get there.
To get there in a year you would need to travel at 21600000000km/h
Essentially atm it's impossible to get there and any messages we send with todays technology will take 20 years to arrive. Our view of it is 20 years out of date as well, it could be destroyed or knocked out of orbit however unlikely as that is.
Still very cool.
Jallenbah
Given that it's 20LY away I've figured it out to be ~189345600000000km away from earth based on the speed of light 3x10^8m/s which would mean if we travelled at 1000km/h it would take us 21600000 years to get there. Damn.
Even if you went at 100,000km/h you would still need 216000 years to get there.
To get there in a year you would need to travel at 21600000000km/h
Essentially atm it's impossible to get there and any messages we send with todays technology will take 20 years to arrive. Our view of it is 20 years out of date as well, it could be destroyed or knocked out of orbit however unlikely as that is.
Still very cool.
Even if you went at 100,000km/h you would still need 216000 years to get there.
To get there in a year you would need to travel at 21600000000km/h
Essentially atm it's impossible to get there and any messages we send with todays technology will take 20 years to arrive. Our view of it is 20 years out of date as well, it could be destroyed or knocked out of orbit however unlikely as that is.
Still very cool.
Try 1000km/s instead of km/h at least. 1000km/h is nothing.
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Jallenbah
Given that it's 20LY away I've figured it out to be ~189345600000000km away from earth based on the speed of light 3x10^8m/s which would mean if we travelled at 1000km/h it would take us 21600000 years to get there. Damn.
Even if you went at 100,000km/h you would still need 216000 years to get there.
To get there in a year you would need to travel at 21600000000km/h
Essentially atm it's impossible to get there and any messages we send with todays technology will take 20 years to arrive. Our view of it is 20 years out of date as well, it could be destroyed or knocked out of orbit however unlikely as that is.
Still very cool.
Even if you went at 100,000km/h you would still need 216000 years to get there.
To get there in a year you would need to travel at 21600000000km/h
Essentially atm it's impossible to get there and any messages we send with todays technology will take 20 years to arrive. Our view of it is 20 years out of date as well, it could be destroyed or knocked out of orbit however unlikely as that is.
Still very cool.
Why does it say it would take 20 years to get there then?
Destes
Jallenbah made something exciting into something boring real quick...
I thought their post was very interesting actually, instead of the usual 'oh cool' 'oohh we might find ET lolz11/0' type of comments.
TheCurlyHairedDude
Why does it say it would take 20 years to get there then?
It takes light 20 years to get there. Hence Light Years. Unless we created a machine capable of travelling through a vacuum at 186,000miles per second, it would take us considerably longer
Pretty cool. Now they just have to find the other 5 earth like planets ( There are 7 all together in our universe).
But I doubt there is life in any of those planets, or any other for that matter.
But I doubt there is life in any of those planets, or any other for that matter.
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