New Earth-Like Planet Discovered

[m0da]

20 years in space is nothing cause you get old slowly up there

Right, the faster you go, the less time you actually travel.
It's like this:

Ts = Tr * sqrt(1-v^2/c^2)
Ts = time felt in space as you travel with speed v
Tr = time felt while standing still or at a negligible speed
c = speed of light, ~2.997x10^8 m/s

Therefore, as you approach the speed of light, the time felt in space becomes negligible. But as others have said, ionic propulsion has a speed of about 25000 mph, ~11176 m/s.

Ts / Tr = sqrt(1 - (11176m/s)^2 / (2.997x10^8m/s)^2) = .99999999930

So, basically, 25000 mph or 11176 m/s is negligible. If you travel this speed, you will only feel .99999999930 times the amount of time a normal person feels. If someone lived 100000000000 years, you, traveling in space at 25000mph will have felt/lived 99999999930 years. The difference of which is only 70 years.

Basically, we have to travel really REALLY REALLLLLLLYYYY FAST in order to have some effect on the time we go through.

[Your_Boss]

Is there possible life on that planet? Oh, that's an easy question. Does it have a stargate?

[Ron 61]

I don't think we could live on this planet for too long because gravity is stronger there, would it's toll on our bodies after a few weeks probably we'd have joint and heart problems.


Was just wondering what type of computers they have there

Sorry could not resist.

[DFI pit bull]

Thats was just what I had in mind

[Brother Esau]

Yea lets hurry up and get there so we can exploit all of the resources and destroy it as well!

Yay.....Go Team!!!

[largon]

You wish?

You believe?

[oublie]

Ok put me down for a ticket too but i dont want to sit beside the sleeping fat bloke or the wingeing kid plus the food and in flight movie has to be good. And if possible could some of you build me a 7 stage cascade so i can freeze myself for the journey?

[FghtinIrshNvrDi]

You believe?

no, you have the 'belief', largon.

assuming it has liquid water (complete speculation), that implies nothing to say there has to be life there. You have it backwards.

Ryan

[Metroid]

Travelling great distances is not a problem. Just ask some of the aliens at Area 51 how to bend space and time.

Very good find.

We have to be careful if we get closer to the black mail

Abomination = Aliens.

[XSAlliN]

I don't find alien races to be friendly, even if they didn't tried to invade us done put your hopes up for friendship, if they do chose Earth as a second habitat, the humans will be there slaves, same as we would do with other uninvolved races, same as we did on our planet for centuries even among our selfs.

[NapalmV5]

dont worry guys we can go there to check out the place @ afterlife

[largon]

Too bad there's no afterlife.

[alayashu]

by the time we get there, that planet will probably be vanished (if its not already :P).

[NapalmV5]

Too bad there's no afterlife.

too bad for u

but i promise you this, after i leave this place and if you are still around, and like alayashu said, if the planet is still around, ill send you a postcard, i mean it

[largon]

I'll go pray the Flying Spaghetti Monster to bless and protect Glies 581c till that.

too bad for u

Not at all.

[sladesurfer]

Right, the faster you go, the less time you actually travel.
It's like this:

Ts = Tr * sqrt(1-v^2/c^2)
Ts = time felt in space as you travel with speed v
Tr = time felt while standing still or at a negligible speed
c = speed of light, ~2.997x10^8 m/s

Therefore, as you approach the speed of light, the time felt in space becomes negligible. But as others have said, ionic propulsion has a speed of about 25000 mph, ~11176 m/s.

Ts / Tr = sqrt(1 - (11176m/s)^2 / (2.997x10^8m/s)^2) = .99999999930

So, basically, 25000 mph or 11176 m/s is negligible. If you travel this speed, you will only feel .99999999930 times the amount of time a normal person feels. If someone lived 100000000000 years, you, traveling in space at 25000mph will have felt/lived 99999999930 years. The difference of which is only 70 years.

Basically, we have to travel really REALLY REALLLLLLLYYYY FAST in order to have some effect on the time we go through.

ok,i'll just take yor word for it

[JPeitzman]

^^^True... physics is fun!

Anyways, this is kind of cool...though the search for life and a earth-like planet has also yielded a lot of near misses too.

The chances of life being there, or finding a planet with life is very small, but possible. Consider though that it will probable be unicellular or very small multicellular. I wouldn't expect anything remotely close to even insects, much less intelligent human or animal like. I am not to worried about invasion or anything like that; besides I give us another couple 100 years or so before we have blown ourselves up or wasted all of our world resources.

[FghtinIrshNvrDi]

Too bad there's no afterlife.

I knew an atheist/liberal would start this crap. Again and again, the pattern appears. You can just read 'em like an open book. They don't have a religion. Since people are virtually wired for religion, thiers becomes science, and faith in science and socialism somehow creating a utopia in the future.

Every important aspect of religion is available in environmentalism/socialism/science.

You have faith (in science helping humanity in the long run)
You have apokaliptic scenes (end of the world, global warming)
You have tithing (carbon offsets)

There's everything.

Strange group of people, including mr. largon know-it-all.

Ryan

[revenant]

well, even if we manage to get there somehow, sending a message back reporting on what we found would take again a HUGE amount of time.. unless, yes, we consult the captive aliens at Area 51.. I have always thought of them being like the little guys from MIB.. the ones drinking coffee..
"that's not decaf is it?"
"nah, viennese cinnamon!!"
hehe...

[largon]

Every important aspect of religion is available in environmentalism/socialism/science.

You have faith (in science helping humanity in the long run)
You have apokaliptic scenes (end of the world, global warming)
You have tithing (carbon offsets)

There's everything.

Sorry, I don't believe in science. I'm an atheist. That's the whole point of rational atheism, not believing something there's no proof of. Someone who believes in science is not an atheist.
Alas, debating about this subject makes little sense due to the fact that the "other party" doesn't deal with the same principals as the other (rationality).

[Repoman]

I knew an atheist/liberal would start this crap. Again and again, the pattern appears. You can just read 'em like an open book. They don't have a religion. Since people are virtually wired for religion, thiers becomes science, and faith in science and socialism somehow creating a utopia in the future.

Every important aspect of religion is available in environmentalism/socialism/science.

You have faith (in science helping humanity in the long run)
You have apokaliptic scenes (end of the world, global warming)
You have tithing (carbon offsets)

There's everything.

Strange group of people, including mr. largon know-it-all.

Ryan

- 1000 respect

Is this post supposed to have a point?

[-thc-(cZ)]

If all the stupid governments stopped developing TANKS and put all the war money into a, telescope that can see VERY FAR very good and b, a propulsion system to get us there EVERYONE WOULD BENEFIT

But NOOOOO we need new tanks.. just the fact that we humans are so stupid to even develop such a thing as a tank it even has its own word.. is beyond me.. imagine a peaceful alien show up going what? Tank? What's that for? SO YOU CAN KILL EACH OTHER?? GREAT! IM OUTTA HERE!

[-thc-(cZ)]

- 1000 respect

Is this post supposed to have a point?

Yea, I noticed too.. 3 of his 4 posts in this thread are pretty mean.. the dudes needs to start / stop drinking

But he gets points for quoting our president (who studied economy, not the Earth.. but he has a point about the politics of it)

[Daveb2012]

This is very exciting to me, The only thing I want to happen for sure during my life time is discovery of life in the universe. I know life is out their, I just can hope we can prove it our meet with it in my life time.

[p0tter]