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re: Astronomers announce 7 earth size exoplanets around dwarf sun
Posted on 2/22/17 at 1:51 pm to SidewalkDawg
Posted on 2/22/17 at 1:51 pm to SidewalkDawg
Nice angling. :lol
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Posted on 2/22/17 at 1:53 pm to NYNolaguy1
Those planets orbit that star fast as frick 
Posted on 2/22/17 at 1:54 pm to shel311
All good man, 
and thanks! And sidewalk is good people and pretty funny, though to be honest that wasn't his best.
Step yo game up dawg!!
and thanks! And sidewalk is good people and pretty funny, though to be honest that wasn't his best. Step yo game up dawg!!
Posted on 2/22/17 at 1:54 pm to shel311
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I don't think I'll ever be able to fathom how we can see or know anything about something that is about 234 trillion miles away. It just doesn't make any sense.
Agreed. They are "seeing" these planets 39 years in the past... they have no idea what they look like today. It's hard for me to wrap my head around.
Posted on 2/22/17 at 1:56 pm to MontyFranklyn
I would assume because those stars are red dwarf's. Those planets will look completely different. I can't remember why, but we can't look at G type stars with our current technology (our sun is a G type).
Posted on 2/22/17 at 1:56 pm to LucasP
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All good man, and thanks! And sidewalk is good people and pretty funny, though to be honest that wasn't his best.
Step yo game up dawg!!
Some days you got it, some days you don't.
Posted on 2/22/17 at 2:05 pm to 225Tyga
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39 light years x 37,200 miles per light year = 1,450,800 years
Your units are way off. Let's see if the OT can find the mistake here
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Posted on 2/22/17 at 2:06 pm to mofungoo
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Translation - we can't get there from here. Do the math.
You even wormhole bro?
Posted on 2/22/17 at 2:10 pm to Nado Jenkins83
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I bet they won't know shite in 10 years.
And theres a snowball's chance in hell that NASA will develop warp capability before man goes extinct.
And it's not because NASA can't do it; it's because liberals will scream and want that money to fund "art" and studies into the homosexual tendencies of polar bears.
Posted on 2/22/17 at 2:12 pm to mofungoo
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Translation - we can't get there from here. Do the math.
How much do you know about quantum physics?
Posted on 2/22/17 at 2:14 pm to NYNolaguy1
"So where is everybody?"
Enrico Fermi
If there are millions of planets like earth that have existed for billions of years, how come we have had no contact with another intelligent civilization?
Enrico Fermi
If there are millions of planets like earth that have existed for billions of years, how come we have had no contact with another intelligent civilization?
Posted on 2/22/17 at 2:14 pm to NYNolaguy1
Trying to think about QP makes my head hurt.
Posted on 2/22/17 at 2:14 pm to Tempratt
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it's because liberals will scream and want that money to fund "art" and studies into the homosexual tendencies of polar bears.
Well let's be honest, the homosexual tendencies of polar bears is going be a lot cheaper to study. Plus, it's for science.
Posted on 2/22/17 at 2:15 pm to foshizzle
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Problem is that they're all probably tidally locked.
I think the article said the first couple are, by the last are not. Also it would be interesting if they were arranged by Lagrangian points.
Posted on 2/22/17 at 2:21 pm to JudgeHolden
Distance, that's why.
Posted on 2/22/17 at 2:22 pm to JudgeHolden
quote:Several factors:
"So where is everybody?"
Enrico Fermi
If there are millions of planets like earth that have existed for billions of years, how come we have had no contact with another intelligent civilization?
Distance
Relativity
Evolution
Life cycles
so on.....
Posted on 2/22/17 at 2:23 pm to LucasP
Light-years are a measure of distance, not duration.
Posted on 2/22/17 at 2:27 pm to BigDropper
Isn't a measure of distance using duration?
Posted on 2/22/17 at 2:28 pm to BigDropper
Huh? Was that supposed to be directed at me?
Posted on 2/22/17 at 2:31 pm to AUCE05
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Trying to think about QP makes my head hurt.
Me too, but the math doesn't say it's impossible to travel that far in a theoretical persons lifetime.
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