Maybe. Kinda. Sort of.
Pretty close to us too, though a current technology ship would take forever to get there still.
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So quoth Pvednes:
Awesome! Let's take it!
My shitty math says it would only take us 22 million years to get there if we left today, at the speed of the Voyager 1 probe.
Assuming it's a straight line.
And that light years do not obey leap years.
Skaw fucked around with this message on 04-25-2007 at 07:15 AM.
Which is still no good, but still.
It's not a straight line either.
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Skaw said:
And if it hasn't already blown up, or been annihilated.
We'll take each province, round by round, until we've got a WAAAAAGH! of epic proportions.
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Pvednes said:
It's not the Voyager 1 mission. With some of the propulsion designs we've got currently, it'd be doable in journeys of approximately 400 years or less.
I hope we do find a habital or semi-habital planet, they don't know what kind of atmosphere this one has and it has a bit too much gravity to be comfortable due to its size.
It would start another public surge in space interest, which is sorely needed. That (and major wars) is when technology moves forward in leaps and bounds.
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. - John Kenneth Galbraith
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Karnaj had this to say about Optimus Prime:
China needs to get a manned mission to the Moon going, land at the Apollo 11 site, and replace the American flag with a Chinese one. Nothing short of that will galvanize the public enough to fire up another space race.
Oh god that would be freaking AWESOME to see
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From the book of Vorago, chapter 3, verse 16:
Oh god that would be freaking AWESOME to see
That would be fucking war.
I'd weigh uh... 260 lbs Maradon! fucked around with this message on 04-25-2007 at 10:54 AM.
quote:more like 470 lbs you fatstronaut
Maradon!.
Wouldn't it have 50% more gravity?I'd weigh uh... 260 lbs
3.375 Times the volume of Earth. That's a lot of mass.
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`Doc thought about the meaning of life:
The first generation or two of colonization would be pretty rough. After that, humans born and raised in the planet's gravity would be much stronger than their ancestors (seeing as they'd effectively spend their entire lives lifting excessive weight).
It would be murder on the cardiovascular system though. The heart is just not designed for that sort of strain. Shorter lives would definitely be the norm.
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Alaan got served! Alaan got served!
It would be murder on the cardiovascular system though. The heart is just not designed for that sort of strain. Shorter lives would definitely be the norm.
Yes. It would take dozens of generations to breed humans more suited to 2g, maybe as long as 5,000 years.
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. - John Kenneth Galbraith
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Karnaj impressed everyone with:
Yes. It would take dozens of generations to breed humans more suited to 2g, maybe as long as 5,000 years.
yikes! that's a lot of dozens.
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Alaan said:
Especially since humans aren't as closely tied to the survival of the fittest that helps evolution move along. People with shitty genes reproduce all the time. So unless you had a designed breeding program or something it would all be a toss of the dice to get your children to have the Lance Armstrong heart gene.
Colonists would probably be selected and screened for the appropriate characteristics to wherever they are going.
Which is a double-edged sword since you lose a whole lot of good genes if their ship goes boom or gets lost.
I wonder how long it took to get the equipment out there which discovered it? And who knows, if there is life already there if its intelligent or not? Is it thier dinasour age? Or maybe far more advanced than us?
Oh goody, now that we have destroyed our own planet its time to start over some place else?
Still very cool tho.
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Peanut butter ass Shaq Genericgirl booooze lime pole over bench lick:
very cool.I wonder how long it took to get the equipment out there which discovered it? And who knows, if there is life already there if its intelligent or not? Is it thier dinasour age? Or maybe far more advanced than us?
Because life has existed for such an incredibly short amount of time, in astrological terms, if life does exist elsewhere in the universe it is almost absolutely certain that it will have existed for much, much longer than us.
