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Would ET's risk navigating the Oort Cloud to visit Earth?
Posted on 7/27/15 at 11:16 pm
Posted on 7/27/15 at 11:16 pm
Travelling at 1/10th the speed of light it might take up to 30 years just to navigate thru this thing. Seems like it would be a major pain in the butt and very time consuming.
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The Oort cloud is thought to occupy a vast space from somewhere between 2,000 and 5,000 AU (0.03 and 0.08 ly)[10] to as far as 50,000 AU (0.79 ly)[3] from the Sun. Some estimates place the outer edge at between 100,000 and 200,000 AU (1.58 and 3.16 light years).[10]
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The outer Oort cloud may have trillions of objects larger than 1 km (0.62 mi),[3] and billions with absolute magnitudes[15] brighter than 11 (corresponding to approximately 20-kilometre (12 mi) diameter),
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Models predict that the inner cloud should have tens or hundreds of times as many cometary nuclei as the outer halo;
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Posted on 7/27/15 at 11:18 pm to LSU1NSEC
Yeah, probably.
Posted on 7/27/15 at 11:20 pm to LSU1NSEC
He'd prolly just phone home and they'd come get him.
Posted on 7/27/15 at 11:20 pm to LSU1NSEC
Well, it's safe to assume the ET's home star would have its own Oort cloud, so if they can get through that, I'm sure ours wouldn't be any different.
Posted on 7/27/15 at 11:21 pm to LSU1NSEC
They wormhole right through that shite.
Posted on 7/27/15 at 11:22 pm to LSU1NSEC
I would assume they would be travelling closer to 99percebt the speed of life if not infinitely fast if they had a warp drive or perhaps a worm hole or instantaneous travel
I also assume if they did they would have some sort of shield or deterrent field to take care of this if their means of travel didn't already solve the problem itself
I also assume if they did they would have some sort of shield or deterrent field to take care of this if their means of travel didn't already solve the problem itself
Posted on 7/27/15 at 11:26 pm to LSU1NSEC
Deflector array much brah?
Posted on 7/27/15 at 11:33 pm to JuiceTerry
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They cornhole right through that shite.
Posted on 7/27/15 at 11:41 pm to LSU1NSEC
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Travelling at 1/10th the speed of light it might take up to 30 years just to navigate thru this thing. Seems like it would be a major pain in the butt and very time consuming.
It would be simple to navigate it, because a kilometer isn't jack shite when it comes to the Oort cloud. It's like asking will I directly hit a Humpback Whale when crossing over the Pacific. Sure, you may come close to one, but the chances of you directly hitting one are slim to none. In fact, I'd say it's even more preposterous than that. The cosmos is simply massive, and the asteroid belt is much more densely packed than the Oort Cloud is, and none of our probes have gotten even close to hitting an asteroid. It's really 99.9999999999999999999999999999% space compared to that remaining minuscule portion that isn't. You in all likelihood wouldn't hit any other object.
This post was edited on 7/27/15 at 11:57 pm
Posted on 7/27/15 at 11:45 pm to LSU1NSEC
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Would ET's risk navigating the Oort Cloud to visit Earth? by LSU1NSEC
Even with those big numbers you cite, the vastness of the space they are in is so much greater that the chance of actually impacting something, even if you went through it blind, would be very low. With advanced detection techniques that could tell them where objects were, they could go through it at full speed with no problem.
Posted on 7/27/15 at 11:46 pm to OMLandshark
This.
We talked about this a couple of times in my Astronomy classes at A&M.
The sheer vastness of spaces makes navigating through it more than probable, assuming we had the right technology.
We talked about this a couple of times in my Astronomy classes at A&M.
The sheer vastness of spaces makes navigating through it more than probable, assuming we had the right technology.
Posted on 7/28/15 at 1:32 am to LSU1NSEC
They'd just come through the Stargate.
Posted on 7/28/15 at 4:41 am to LSU1NSEC
So you just read about this and had to post about it, cool.
Posted on 7/28/15 at 4:55 am to LSU1NSEC
Which would mean ET is old and therefore not an alien child, but a mentally retarded alien
Posted on 7/28/15 at 5:00 am to LSU1NSEC
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the Oort Cloud
Is that by K-PAX?
Posted on 7/28/15 at 5:04 am to LSU1NSEC
Was ET the retard of the group?
Posted on 7/28/15 at 5:21 am to LSU1NSEC
As others have pointed out, the risk posed by accidental collision is extremely low.
The real reason ET won't come here is that we'd steal all their blue-skinned females.
The real reason ET won't come here is that we'd steal all their blue-skinned females.
Posted on 7/28/15 at 5:40 am to soccerfüt
It's almost as a obstacle was put there to discourage our comings and goings
Posted on 7/28/15 at 6:04 am to jaTigerfan
You anti-earthite! OUR oort is the biggest! by far!
Posted on 7/28/15 at 6:45 am to LSU1NSEC
Real space ballers use wormholes. Only space poor travel through the Oort Cloud.
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