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re: Astronomers find planet potentially capable of supporting lifequote:  Reply • Back to Top |
| fire up the FTL drive, prepare for jump Reply • Back to Top |
| We really need to invent warp capability. Reply • Back to Top |
quote: I believe this is correct. Speed of light is 186,000 miles per second. It would take 22 years to the occupants of the ship. Reply • Back to Top |
| If traveling at a constant acceleration of 1G, it would only take 6 years and a few months to cover 22 light years, from the ship's reference. If on a round trip, the astronauts would arrive back in our system having aged only 12-13 years but would find 44 years have passed on Earth. Reply • Back to Top |
Posted by LSU=Champions on 4/28 at 1:26 pm to the only dirt mcgirt I'm so fricking confused....Reply • Back to Top |
quote: This basically correct. Dont worry if you dont understand why but this has alot to do with relativity. Reply • Back to Top |
quote:Me too--I'll let Carl Sagan explain it: LINK This post was edited on 4/28 at 1:46 pm Reply • Back to Top |
| I was assuming a constant speed (going from zero to "c") in a split second and continuing to travel at that speed until they got there. I know they would have to slowly accelerate to the speed of light though. Reply • Back to Top |
quote: Am I reading this right? Reply • Back to Top |
quote: The C is a constant. It's a mass-energy equivalence. It doesn't support the statement. Reply • Back to Top |
| You would have to double that time in order to actually stop at the planet though, correct? Reply • Back to Top |
| No, that travel time includes deceleration. ETA: i didn't do the math myself, i used an online calculator LINK This post was edited on 4/29 at 9:40 pm Reply • Back to Top |
| To people who don't know what lightyears means: A lightyear is the distance light travels in one earth year, i.e. 186,000 miles per second for a grand total distance of 5.67648^12 miles. Second of all the people who would be traveling at such speeds would experience time dilation, thus creating the perception that time was moving slower than it actually was, though, on a biological scale this would be true and the bodies would age only a number of years perhaps Reply • Back to Top |
Thank you. That other smart arse was thinking he was right and everyone else was retarded.  Reply • Back to Top |
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| Has anyone ever done testing on the aging effect on living cells experiencing high speeds that would cause slowing of time? Do they age slower on the relative time or the time they are experiencing? Reply • Back to Top |
| They do it with atoms and their half lives are extended beyond what it should be. Reply • Back to Top |
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