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re: Astronomers discover most significant earth-like planet to date. Huge news
Posted on 8/24/16 at 2:05 pm to The Pirate King
Posted on 8/24/16 at 2:05 pm to The Pirate King
quote:I think Musk will push it faster than any government would.
Carrying the torch? Yes - advancing fast enough to allow deep space travel, colonies, etc in the next 100 years? Highly doubtful.
quote:Actually Google's yearly profits are on par with NASA's yearly budget.
Google has a shite load of money, but not full NASA budget money and resources.
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Posted on 8/24/16 at 2:06 pm to WinnPtiger
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Posted on 8/24/16 at 2:11 pm to Korkstand
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I think Musk will push it faster than any government would.
So do I.
The government lost its balls after the moon landing.
Posted on 8/24/16 at 2:59 pm to Korkstand
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Actually Google's yearly profits are on par with NASA's yearly budget.
and the good folks at google probably don't piss as much away
Posted on 8/24/16 at 3:01 pm to The Baker
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It is useful to be a multi planetary species. Venus is the closest planet to us, has the same gravity, has a carbon based atmosphere, and can be terraformed using passive techniques (sans importing hydrogen).
It's also closer to the sun and poses the same long term issue as Earth (it'll eventually get swallowed up).
Posted on 8/24/16 at 4:24 pm to Bestbank Tiger
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Posted on 8/24/16 at 4:57 pm to The Pirate King
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Carrying the torch? Yes - advancing fast enough to allow deep space travel, colonies, etc in the next 100 years? Highly doubtful.
Google has a shite load of money, but not full NASA budget money and resources.
NASAs 2016 budget is like ~$19b
Google brought in ~$73.5B revenue in 2015..
We have the technology today to colonize our solar system and to terraform near-habitable planets. Deep space travel.. well.. we should start in our own neighborhood first.
Posted on 8/24/16 at 5:07 pm to bmy
In the next 100 years humans and robots will be one and the same. We will be able to create now bodies and move our minds between bodies and machines. We will be able to transport our mind to other places, just like we send an email and then load the mind into the host body for the function needed. Many of the current limitations of the body will cease to exist...
Posted on 8/24/16 at 5:37 pm to wickowick
Lets leave behind all the liberals when we colonize space
Posted on 8/24/16 at 5:42 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
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It is probably in the not-too-hot, not-too-cold Goldilocks Zone where liquid water — a key to life — is possible
I always thought this was a flawed way of thinking. Yes, liquid water is key to OUR life, and life we observe here on Earth.
But who's to say water is essential to all life? There could very well be organisms on other planets that require other elements and compounds, but not water.
Posted on 8/24/16 at 6:20 pm to rintintin
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Posted on 8/24/16 at 6:30 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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Will expedite through wormhole.
Hope you have Amazon Spacetime Prime. It's pretty expensive without it.
Posted on 8/24/16 at 6:39 pm to The Baker
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Venus is the closest planet to us, has the same gravity
Edit: Meant to say that it's atmospheric pressures would be crushing.
This post was edited on 8/24/16 at 6:46 pm
Posted on 8/24/16 at 7:07 pm to CapstoneGrad06
If they hurry, I'll get to see it when I turn 100.
Posted on 8/24/16 at 7:41 pm to rintintin
With our current know how, that is not how biology works. If what you are describing were plausible, Mars, Titan, etc would have strange life on them that adapted to the surrounding chemical elements of those worlds.
Posted on 8/24/16 at 7:42 pm to shutterspeed
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Posted on 8/24/16 at 8:25 pm to AUCE05
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Posted on 8/24/16 at 8:34 pm to CelticDog
If one side is facing its star, and perpetually hot, and the other side is constantly cold, isn't there a habitable region in between somewhere?
Can we send Trump and Trumpkins to that planet? Our world is too crowded already.
Can we send Trump and Trumpkins to that planet? Our world is too crowded already.
Posted on 8/24/16 at 8:40 pm to The Baker
You know earth was made from space junk, right?
Posted on 8/24/16 at 8:43 pm to CelticDog
quote:It's not shaped like a plate.
planet is too hot on one side and too cold for running water on the other.
keep looking. does not really meet our requirements
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