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Analyze That 
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ThereAndBackAgain
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| re: Astronomers find planet potentially capable of supporting life (Posted on 4/29/12 at 10:13 pm to Drew Orleans)
The Stargate franchise taught us so much about this... We really just need to capture an alien ship, seeing as how the likelihood it would have greater than lightspeed capability.
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Golgi Apparatus 
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Member since Sep 2009
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| re: Astronomers find planet potentially capable of supporting life (Posted on 4/30/12 at 10:02 am to AUCE05)
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quote: They also can't effectively communicate with Earth, as it will take 22 years to get a message there and 22 years to hear back. So if there are any problems encountered they can't let us know.
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If we figure out the whole travel at the speed of light thing, surely our way of communication would evolve, wouldn't it?
Most assuredly. Check out the work they're doing with quantum entanglement. It's still in its infancy but it'd be pretty safe to posit that entanglement or another similar field would be very well developed by the time we are capable of traveling to the stars.
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Lithium 
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Member since Dec 2004
41361 posts
| re: Astronomers find planet potentially capable of supporting life (Posted on 4/30/12 at 10:14 am to mailman)
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would take us much longer to get there
Bull shite. Warp Factor 6
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Jumbeauxlaya 
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Member since Jan 2011
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| re: Astronomers find planet potentially capable of supporting life (Posted on 4/30/12 at 3:38 pm to The Future)
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What he's driving at is maybe another race can survive in sub zero temperatures or an atmosphere filled with hydrogen, etc.
I think they account for that even.. but it still disallows a lot of planets that are made of pure gas or 3000 degrees etc.
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Bestbank Tiger 
Tulane Fan
Landmass Gulf Coast
Member since Jan 2005
15766 posts
| re: Astronomers find planet potentially capable of supporting life (Posted on 4/30/12 at 9:22 pm to MikeD)
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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?
They've also put atomic clocks on 747s and space shuttles, and at the end of the trip the atomic clock is behind a ground-based clock because less time elapsed on the plane/shuttle.
Given the low speeds and time periods involved, a person wouldn't even perceive the difference but the atomic clocks do.
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NotoriousFSU 
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Member since Oct 2008
726 posts
| re: Astronomers find planet potentially capable of supporting life (Posted on 4/30/12 at 9:32 pm to Bestbank Tiger)
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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?
I vaguely remember something one of my professors told our class one day about a person who travels at light speed for an extended amount of time will be younger than actual time spent away from Earth, by like a few months and even up to a year, once they return to Earth.
i.e., if there were twins, born at the same exact time, and one spent years traveling at light speed, they would return younger than the other twin. (that was the example my professor used)
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Drew Orleans
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| re: Astronomers find planet potentially capable of supporting life (Posted on 4/30/12 at 9:33 pm to NotoriousFSU)
Been established and it all depends on how fast for how long.
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Casty McBoozer
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your mom's fat ass
Member since Sep 2005
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| re: Astronomers find planet potentially capable of supporting life (Posted on 4/30/12 at 9:45 pm to Golgi Apparatus)
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They also can't effectively communicate with Earth, as it will take 22 years to get a message there and 22 years to hear back. So if there are any problems encountered they can't let us know.
If they sent a message on the way back, they could race the message home.
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Spoonie Luv 
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Member since Jun 2011
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| re: Astronomers find planet potentially capable of supporting life (Posted on 5/1/12 at 8:54 am to TigerBait1127)
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it isn't like other galaxies have different ingredients to start life. we know under what conditions life can be sustainable
Sure they can.
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Trauma14
LSU Fan
Member since Aug 2010
2767 posts
| re: Astronomers find planet potentially capable of supporting life (Posted on 5/1/12 at 9:04 am to Spoonie Luv)
Neil DeGrasse Tyson's take on intelligent life
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Servedinafghanistan 
New Orleans Saints Fan
FWB, FL
Member since Feb 2005
6367 posts
| re: Astronomers find planet potentially capable of supporting life (Posted on 5/1/12 at 12:32 pm to baytiger)
Now they need to find a planet that lets you grow younger.
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