How is it possible to check for signs of life in planets so far away ? Is there a way now ( or with some kind of future technology ) to tell what kind of atmospheres these planets have ? Either way, i think we are in a very exciting age in space exploration .. this is the first time humanity gets to explore real planets out of our solar system! Even if it is from so far away... hopefully one day we will get to study them from shorter distances .... :)
@GR8TM4N well we can allready tell what planets are made of more or less though this age af space exploration is actually kinda boring yes sure we use satelites and telescopes but we have hardly ever pressed beyond mars.. that being said I hope I'll live to see a ship leaving of to another solar system and reaching it within only a few years 5 or so which currently is obviously impossible unfortunatly.
@YoshiTheGreenOne I hope that you get to see it happen. Im not so optimistic that it will happen in our lifetimes, but you never know. Maybe you are too young to remember this, but 20-30 years ago, speaking about what kind of planets other solar systems might posses was science fiction. The presence of exoplanets was hypothetical, and not proven. For a guy like me that grew up in those days ( and likes astronomy ) the recent discoveries are really fascinating :-)
@GR8TM4N well keep in mind that technology kinda grows exponentially which in theory would make it possible... but despite of all that I'm looking forward to august this year for the new mars rover to land on mars and 2015 for new horizons to arrive at pluto to take some orbital pictures
@YoshiTheGreenOne I do not say it isn't possible. I hope too that i get to see it, as it is something i want to happen of course. The problem is that i believe that we don't have much time ahead of us. We have to develop interstellar travel in the next 100 years or so. After that it might be too late for humanity.
remember these planets are billions of light years away! your gonna need all the fuel of the whole planet earth just to reach one of those exoplanets that might have life on them. Oh and be ware of dinosours on those planets!
@tribefenatic Actually, we haven't really found any exo-planets more than a few hundred light years simply because they're so hard to find. Even then we wouldn't be able to reach them in a lifetime.
religion is so narrow. religion is entirely human-centric. How can you still refer to a piece of work that places humanity at the centre of the universe when you are looking at the marvels all around? Nothing is more humanly arrogant than religion, for man being at the center of it all.
Why should we give a damn about exoplanets? It is not like we can reach one any time soon. Astronomers are just collecting more data of no practical use. Don't astronomers have to know about gravity?
So why can't they figure out that the distribution of steel has to be important in skyscrapers? Can't astronomers comprehend the physics of 9/11? Why should everyone be interested in the problem of exoplanets if scientists won't resolve a problem on this planet? Do astronomers have exobrains?
@psikeyhackr Finding life in the out reachers of our universe is more important than 9/11, because 9/11's over. It was a sad thing, but for fuck sake stop making documentaries on it
@krashmckiwi Could life be detected on Earth from Mars if it were not for radio transmissions and possible the presence of oxygen in the atmosphere. And the oxygen would only be proof of plant life.
It is so funny that people who claim to be SCIENTIFIC can't handle the Newtonian Physics of a skyscraper.
@psikeyhackr Astronomers probably do debate the serious issue of 9/11. Anyone looking at the end result of those 3 buildings HAS to wonder..' That ain't natural.'... We will after all have to grow up very quickly when it is widely know that we are surrounded by life on other planets...maybe with historical distance, wise men and women will openly debate the questionable official report, the popular media will start also and it will become more 'fashionable' to be informed with REAL facts...maybe
But the REAL question is, Could we blow up those super earths ? Because they might be harboring terrorists trying to invade our country. I suggest we nuke the crap out of them as soon as possible.
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I'm curious. Liquid water requires not only the right temp of a planet, but the pressure of the atmosphere. I'm aware of how astronomers determine the temp of the planet as well as the composition of the atmosphere. Can anyone tell me how they would determine the pressure? Do they just make an educated guess based on gas laws, graviational forces of the planet, and temperature? Just curious.
@Ripley747 If they can see it directly, and not just infer it's existence based on it's gravitational effects on it's star, they can determine atmospheric composition via spectograph. I'm not sure about the others, though.
@1978atcarroll I'm not sure. I thought of that. As the planet passes in front of the star, it blocks some of the light and the light passes through the atmosphere (not really direct observation but hey) and based on that we can determine what chemistry is in the atmosphere. Of course that would only tell us what's in it, not the quantity and of course composition doesn't affect pressure (P=(nRT)/V). Would they make an assumption based on the density and gravitational pull on gases? I don't know
If u can measure the diameter and the mass of a planet u can then extrapolate the planet's density. Visual observations may also help to find out details about the atmosphere.
@mancamiatipoola Density of the planet is not difficult. You can indirectly measure the density based on the gravitational pull on the parent star for mass and the diameter based on the light it blocks if it passes in front of the star. Visual observations are difficult unless the planet is very large. I'm wondering about the density of the atmosphere which can determine what phase the water is in (ice, liquid, steam, etc). Educated guess based on gravitational pull?
What are all these religious morons going to say once we do find life on other planets? They'll just go back and re-write their stupid dog-shit bible to make room for it. Fucking idiots.
@BlameRepublicans I am not religious but, I have had devine intervention on several occasions within my life time. Your personality is your soul, we are living in Hell as Earth is the devils domain. Screw up and you are sent back here again.
Let me make it clear. You ARE religious. You don't have to pretend you aren't. There's no reason to be dishonest about your religious faith. It's ok. And admitting you're religious gives you more credibility imo b/c at least you're honest about it.
Dude, u played too much Diablo! Snap out of it, u're starting to believe them silly stories about demons that were meant to scare kids. Take a vacation, enjoy life, do some traveling, before Diablo 3 comes out and bites u in the ass :).
@mancamiatipoola Diablo - never even heard of it dipstick. Look back at your life as a whole and assess it. There is only about 25% of it that is enjoyable the remainder is you wondering about trying to survive and get ahead. Soon it will be trying to survive. I embrace death and cannot wait till it finally knocks on my door.
@CheezAce Possible. But that is certainly not true on Earth. Life flourishes everywhere. From high in the atmosphere to 7 miles below the sea surface. In ultra-briny conditions. At above H2O's boiling point. In the solid ice of glaciers. In PH's acidic as battery acid or as corrosive as lye. But not in the sands of the Atacama Desert. 10x drier than the Sahara, its sands are sterile as a surgical scalpel. None of Earth's trillions of species has been able to adapt to exist with so little water.
why are like all the new planets that were discovered but we cant get to named something retarded like h123f5 and some random number/letter code why not something cool because all the planets that were found a long time ago in our solar system have actual names???
Pandora is the nearest earth-like planet we can get to, it's in the solar system called Alpha Centauri, just 4.37 light years away. astronauts say the time of space travelling we need is 15 years to get there... well that's what i heard! haha
@LOVEuBlink182 sorry but with our current technology it would take about 50,000 years for our very fastest spacecraft to get to Alpha Centauri. (EarthSky.org)
@LOVEuBlink182 going to mars takes like 2 years and mars is light seconds away... travel 4.37 light years would be impossible with this technology, if astronauts would go there it would take around 70 years to be just going out of the solar system, you should not believe everything you heard :)
@LOVEuBlink182 With our current technology it would take tens of thousands of years I'm afraid. We need other types of propulsion systems, such as antimatter or nuclear fusion based systems (ideally antimatter is involved) in order to make the trip feasible within a human life-span.
Man's inhumanity toward man says more about human freedom than God's ineptitude. If you don't like the fact that people are starving and suffering from disease and war, then you are borrowing that belief from the Judeo-Christian World View, not the evolutionary pseudo-scientific Philosophical Naturalistic World View which is all about the survival of the fittest, not compassion.
guys stop the religion talk i mean shit im a christian u know why? because i want to be. I have my doutbs about god sometimes but, i mean without it wat do i have to look forward too. i mean without beleiveing u have to go through all your life KNOWing that there is nothing else every again so i choose to beleive just in case im right :) ( and if im wrong well whos gonna punish me? )
@dinowild123 i agree about the religion talk, but i gotta ask.....do you really want to live for eternity? sounds like hell to me. and also, haven't you heard of pascal's wager?
@DaedalusTV "...but what will you do when you see a scary one..."
I've seen enough movies & shows to have some rules of thumb about this. Style of dress is very important. Flowing robes (The Metrons) usually means honest, friendly, & trustworthy. Business suits ("The Day The Earth Stood Still") usually means they're here to warn us about something. The ones that just attack you naked ("Alien") are the ones you need to worry about.
@sbergman27 TV shows are Sci-Fi bro, udk how it really is in real life. And naked aliens are idiots cuz they go around showing their genitals to everyone xd
In "Alien" he/she/it didn't have any. Look closely. Obviously a "Worker Bee". This is in accordance with "Aliens 2" where the hive structure of their living cycle is revealed. We got to see the "Queen Alien". Only certain members of Alien society were born to fuck the Queen. Not particularly relevant to the topic, but still interesting... drones of certain bee species actually explode when they come. (Makes things difficult for the next guy.)
@ianman6 Thats great =D But the real "turn off" is the problem with space travel, isn't it? =( I mean, we wanna get there as soon as possible after discovering life on one of these super-earths.
@Leon2101 And even with water, a planet may only have microscopic life. If you go to a place with a microscope, cut yourself, then put it on a microscope slate. View it. That's what it could look like.
@Leon2101 I know how you feel that rush of thinking we will be able to see thing other than we see now a days and able to experience something new and important in our life times .
What is it with all those religious comments? People, it's nice that you believe in god, but religious comments are not gonna get you anything good but an argument, especially if you talk like you know it all and god this, god that.. Just go on a religious forum or something, this is science, cool stuff. Keep religion out of it, thanks :)
I love science, but scientist sure do suck at naming things. Just ask people to write in good names for new planets, instead of giving them random letters and numbers. How cool would it be, if there was a habitable planet named "Mordor" out there in space?
haha wow what a load of CRAP. they cant even see the planets and show us, just stupid computer graphics. i dont believe this "exoplanet" nonsense for a second, seems like just another attempt by so called scientists to make us think that we are not special, to make us think that there is no God for us.. but they will learn sooner or later
@xjaskix LOL. We'd have to figure out interstellar travel before literally being able to see the planet. We can measure their size, orbit, and distance from their stars with advanced telescopes.
Maybe if your religion hadn't oppressed science and technology for 2000 years, we'd be colonising other planets by now!
Why are you using the Internet? You do know that The computers, the electricity and even the Internet you are using right now is created by those evil scientists?
@xjaskix, You are either retarded or an excellant troll/poe... I love you either way...
You think that the exoplanets that can't be seen are bullshit, but you buy the bit about the invisable sky daddy... That is fucking awesome... Pure comedy...
Nope. As a mining engineer I want to do exactly that. I want to go where no man has gone before, to discover new worlds, and mine them for all of their precious minerals. In many ways, when we mine underground we are delving into the unknown.
@nicnacks2007 Or give them someone new to evangelise to. The mental gymnastics these morons can perform should enable them to have no trouble in claiming ET life as gods work. I think I'll have a little cry now :-(
@hayden50 Why not? Religions were invented to give meaning to life or to explain the origin of life or the universe. So how would it explain life on other planet? nvm u wont get it anyway u ass
I don't really see the point in these satellites looking for planets similar to earth as even if there was an exact replica, we wouldn't be able to get there with the current shuttle we have lol.
So it will most likely not happen in our life time.
I do agree that we need to focus more on what's out there then all these silly things we have here.
If only it was possible for ships to go in some sort of 'Hypersapce' :P ... well everyone thought it was impossible to go to the moon..
"So it will most likely not happen in our life time."
You contradict yourself in your own comment. We did go to the moon. I am done with you naysayers. You offer nothing to humanity at your best and at your worst you hold us back. Go back to your cave, we have science to do.
Also, you see no point? Then you are a lost cause. If you think science is a structured and guided path where we get to choose where discoveries come from, then you are exceptionally delusional.
Sorry but are you on your period? or were you sexually but - raped by an extraterrestrial?
From what I can tell, you are a waste to our society because you seem to be attached to this video like my balls are to my dick. Replying to every comment like you know it all and after all I see you brag about being some sort of a mining engineer which has nothing to do with planets nor this video.
So please do everyone a favor and let people comment the way they want.
Sorry but are you on your period? or were you sexually but - raped by an extraterrestrial?
From what I can tell, you are a waste to our society because you seem to be attached to this video like my balls are to my dick. Replying to every comment like you know it all and after all I see you brag about being some sort of a mining engineer which has nothing to do with planets nor this video.
So please do everyone a favor and let people comment the way they want.
Sorry but are you on your period? or were you sexually but - raped by an extraterrestrial?
From what I can tell, you are a waste to our society because you seem to be attached to this video like my balls are to my dick. Replying to every comment like you know it all and after all I see you brag about being some sort of a mining engineer which has nothing to do with planets nor this video.
So please do everyone a favor and let people comment the way they want.
One thing that is FORSURE.....Energy's characteristic is infinity....forever bigger and smaller....same goes for numbers whether it be to the positive or negative. That you know for a fact by the evidence of what a person can see all around. Once you know all the characteristics of energy, it becomes easy to answer aged old questions about the universe, but many people seem to keep overlooking the characteristics of energy. That is why man has not evolved more than he has.
@Energy321com Why exactly do you think that energy is infinite? The universe has a finite age and, according to known science, a finite mass. The properties of the universe need not be analogous to those of mathematics.
With the size and age of the known universe it's not too hard to imagine that somewhere on the opposite side a planet develop a life form intelligent enought o build weapons powerful enough to destroy itself before it could make contact with other life forms? Perhaps the probloem with evolution is that it hasn't yet stumbled across a life form capable of great intelligence and equal wisdom not to overcosnume, develop greed, envy etc.. and destroy itself within a few short years?
I agree that we should study the cosmos but shouldnt we focus more on keeping our own planet habitable? With all the contamination we produce it will not matter how far we can see in space when we ignore whats happening in our own beautiful planet.
@toocoolforu cute! ...I removed my first reply 'cause when I re-read it there were several spelling typos that aside I kind of chuckled as I read your comment ...so thanks! ...for one of today's smiles
I'm now having a question, why are they so desperately trying to find earth like planet, have we destroied the earth really so bad that in a while it's not livable?
saying there is no life outside our earth is stupid to say the very least, sorry if you really know space, than you know that there billions of galaxy's and possibilities of life out there is 100% guarantee. why hope when we know the earth is going to die a miserable death, whether that be by the sun, asteroids, super volcano.
The biggest star that we have discovered makes earth a speck of sand when compared to it....JUST KNOW...there is another star out there that makes that star a speck of sand compared to it...etc......and that goes on forever = infinity. One of energy’s qualities.
@Energy321com That's not true, a star could reach a size which cannot withstand its own gravity and it would collapse, like it does when it goes supernova and becomes a black hole.
The different sizes of planets reveal one of energy's valuable tools. Every little or big thing has smaller parts or bigger parts. Energy items will forever get bigger and forever smaller. It's the key element as to answering the age old question....where are we. Is it possible that we are a very small part of another higher intelligent person? [inside a human body...as a small element]
if there ten times the size of earth would it not create much more gravity and thus make it difficult for life as we know it? though I guess life could adapt to that as well.
Am I completely wrong on this or not comments anyone?
@daveforfun22 yes it would, but not impossible, denser bone structures or no bones and only in water as jelly fish or single celled organisms, perhaps. Don't foget that gravity is the most powerful force in the universe, but also the weakest and most easy to overcome so evolution would find a way I'm sure.
If it weren't for religion, there would be no Christian dark ages where science was frowned upon, and anyone not believing in God getting stoned to death. Without religion, our society would be 1000 years more advanced, and we would probably have reached planets like this by now.
@Davve941018 not true. even if religion was not that important back then we still would have had technological limits, we would have been able to just start to understand how to build all these complex machines.
We need to stop spending resources on idiocy like religion or war and get moving out into space. This one planet will not cradle us forever. It is only a matter of time before an extinction event happens again.
The problem is that it will take decades to ever colonize these exoplanets. the closest one is 35 light years away. if we move at the speed of sound, it will still take nearly a century to get there. And Humankind can never adopt to the form of photons to reach the speed of light.
@kaminoneh Just a heads up! :) With current technology it would take about 729,000 years to get to a star that is 35 light years away, so a whole lot more than just a century. And the speed of sound is not even 1000 mi/hr so at that speed it would literally take millions of years to get there.
It would take millions of years to get to the 35LY exoplanet with speed of light, but only 729,000 years with just our current technology? I'm a bit confused :-( isn't the speed of sound much faster than the current technology that we have right now? At what speed do our rocket ships launch?
I cannot believe you are serious. You haven't heard about humans breaking the sound barrier over 60 years ago? People go faster than the speed of sound every day. 340.29 m/s is the speed of sound at STP. The Saturn V rocket which carried man to the moon in the 60's had a velocity of 11,200 m/s to escape Earth's gravity well.
You seriously need to get an education before you start attempting to understand this subject matter. How do you know about photons and not escape velocities?
WTF are you on about idiot? If you read any of my previous comments, I already mentioned humans reaching the speed of sound... Stop being an ignorant prick, taking my comment out of context and go troll someone else.
Right, next time, realize that sarcasm doesn't carry with words. Additionally, it seems that you are the are the one who cannot read. MrAXDM said millions of years to go 35LY at the speed of sound and 729,000 years with current day probe velocities. Your previous comments are a mess and you seriously lack a fundamental understanding of what is being discussed. It seems that only you are having a problem here. Calling me an idiot? Whatever floats your boat.
"if we move at the speed of sound, it will still take nearly a century to get there."
You brought up the speed of sound. You are the one confusing everybody and I am positive that you do not grasp what you assert. Not even close to the same magnitude there, and you call me an idiot.
@kaminoneh Lol just read my previous response again, and it might help to do some research on speed of light and distances in space so that you can get a better understanding of the whole space travel subject. But just leave the speed of sound out of this, it's irrelevant.
@DaedalusTV None of the Centauri stars (Proxima or Alphas A & B) show signs of having any planets at all, let alone habitable ones. The nearest possible candidate that I know of is Gliese 581d, 20 ly away. (Gliese 581g made a splash, but its existence is questionable.) BTW, MrAXDM's time estimate is very optimistic, even for a flyby. Optimistically, a flyby to Apha Centauri with current tech might take 90,000 yrs. Of course, the probe would have to last that long.
@kaminoneh You think the fastest we can go in space is the speed of sound? Look up how fast the Voyager probes are going now and remember that those were made with propulsion technology from decades ago.
Also the closest SO FAR discovered exoplanet may be about 35 LY away. There are likely many closer to us that are even more similar in size/density to earth.
As yet we have not put up the equipment to detect earth size exoplanets. We have the tech to do it, we just are not.
My question is will human body withstand the pressure of traveling at the speed of light? Let's say even if we build a transporter that's capable of traveling at the speed of light and IT can travel all the way to an exoplent; how can we as humans, full of mass, travel at the speed of light? We'd have to turn our flesh into photons in order to attain that speed. Don't you think it's a bit unrealistic?
The rest I agree with. perhaps there might be an earth-like planet 15LY away.
You are asking the wrong questions. Why do you insist that we must accelerate to the speed of light to travel? The idea of going around near the speed of light is slow anyways. Just because light is the fastest particle we know of, doesn't mean we have to become photons. Saying that FLT travel (a subject we know very little of) is incomprehensible to you is no different then people 100 years ago would say about going to the moon.
@TheAnubisDrake tell that to Obummer and his science Tsar J.P. Holdren... for two years they managed to derail work towards a heavy lift launch vehicle that could get humans to mars. They didn't even cut NASA's budget- they just said: "no more human spaceflight! take your money and build some satellites but no progress"- that caused an uproar and the plans are back as of this week- bu two years are gone... Ya see, they're marxists, eugenists, and zero groth activists- watch out for the bastards.
@TheAnubisDrake Human space flight is the pinnacle of human development. Today,advocates of central planning and collectivist systems (fascism, communism) don't want growth and development and they hate the idea of human expansion into space-they want their totalitarian system first (BTW i think Bush was the same thing). That's how I see it but dont take my word for it- here is what the head of the Mars Society has to say about it:
@SiemaZiomek Constellation never had a chance. Just read the Augustine Report. Obama put the HSP back on track. That said, considering that the American public is consistently unwilling to spend more than 50 cents a wk per capita on NASA, the HSP is a waste of precious funding. It makes far more sense to spend it on real science missions, rather than pie-in-the-sky promises of space cowboy photo-shoot opportunities on Mars. In lieu of a taxpayer attitude change miracle, I'd give HSP the axe.
@sbergman27 Im not an advocate of "space cowboy photo-shoot"... Im more in favor of expanding human reach in space and establishing a permanent presence on Mars- the approach of the Mars Society. Of course its easy to dismiss ideas like that in favor of the much easier, robotic, "real science missions" that utilize 60yr old tech and give us nothing but gigabytes of data fed into excel sheets on university computers... Think about what the last space cowboy photo shoot gave in terms of new tech..
@SiemaZiomek Read Augustine. Constellation would have cost 900x what MER has cost over 7yrs of operation. & about 360x MSL's budget. 100x JWST's. Meanwhile, LISA, TPF, TSSM, & many others, have all been cancelled due to lack of budget . Read about those projects & the opportunities lost. If the MS loons want to launch themselves to their deaths on a shoestring budget, let them raise the money privately. Also note that the spinoffs/$ ratio for science missions has been greater than for the HSP.
@sbergman27 don't worry the "MS loons" (all those loony aerospace engineers and scientists from many fields of study- at least I didn't start throwing insults at people, sheesh) are already thinking about private funding and I hope they make it either way- and if someone dies, well that's exploration... All Im saying is that the space program should be more about humans reaching out into space, and learning about it... Not just learning about it. Just my point of view.
I debated & then remembered watching 1 of their meetings. Anyway, I'm pro-HSF. But 35yrs of watching American parsimony re: space has sharpened my pragmatism. I hated STS. But love NASA spending to foster a private LEO service industry. It *generates new money*. If the MS, uh.. "optimists" can raise *private* funding to cover their shoestring plan & have people crazy enough to go on their 1 way suicide mission then I'm all for it. But I don't call it science.
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how are humans supposed to survive on larger gravitational strengths in these larger planets?
OtherRandomThings 5 days ago
Great visuals
piperboy350 2 weeks ago
krypton must have been a super earth :D
tyler332425 3 weeks ago in playlist Uploaded videos
Maybe if obama wanted to send people to space we would be on another planet right now.
Doggy10110 3 weeks ago
Good Video, Lovely
1111DestroSuper 1 month ago
I like It, Good Video
SuperDestro1111 1 month ago
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what are the top three exoplanets, that are most similar to earth???????????? thanks
bentotheclarke 1 month ago
How is it possible to check for signs of life in planets so far away ? Is there a way now ( or with some kind of future technology ) to tell what kind of atmospheres these planets have ? Either way, i think we are in a very exciting age in space exploration .. this is the first time humanity gets to explore real planets out of our solar system! Even if it is from so far away... hopefully one day we will get to study them from shorter distances .... :)
GR8TM4N 1 month ago
@GR8TM4N well we can allready tell what planets are made of more or less though this age af space exploration is actually kinda boring yes sure we use satelites and telescopes but we have hardly ever pressed beyond mars.. that being said I hope I'll live to see a ship leaving of to another solar system and reaching it within only a few years 5 or so which currently is obviously impossible unfortunatly.
YoshiTheGreenOne 1 month ago
@YoshiTheGreenOne I hope that you get to see it happen. Im not so optimistic that it will happen in our lifetimes, but you never know. Maybe you are too young to remember this, but 20-30 years ago, speaking about what kind of planets other solar systems might posses was science fiction. The presence of exoplanets was hypothetical, and not proven. For a guy like me that grew up in those days ( and likes astronomy ) the recent discoveries are really fascinating :-)
GR8TM4N 1 month ago
@GR8TM4N well keep in mind that technology kinda grows exponentially which in theory would make it possible... but despite of all that I'm looking forward to august this year for the new mars rover to land on mars and 2015 for new horizons to arrive at pluto to take some orbital pictures
YoshiTheGreenOne 1 month ago
@YoshiTheGreenOne I do not say it isn't possible. I hope too that i get to see it, as it is something i want to happen of course. The problem is that i believe that we don't have much time ahead of us. We have to develop interstellar travel in the next 100 years or so. After that it might be too late for humanity.
GR8TM4N 1 month ago
remember these planets are billions of light years away! your gonna need all the fuel of the whole planet earth just to reach one of those exoplanets that might have life on them. Oh and be ware of dinosours on those planets!
tribefenatic 1 month ago
@tribefenatic Actually, we haven't really found any exo-planets more than a few hundred light years simply because they're so hard to find. Even then we wouldn't be able to reach them in a lifetime.
Dannyowen555 3 weeks ago
I say let's marine marauder rush them before it's too late.
MrPrankmastergeneral 1 month ago
we cant make it i mean it is way way far we cant go there also because the Spacecraft Fuel
will be low and thney will stuck in the space also they must make very very big Spacecraft
to reach it
MetalGearArmA 2 months ago
i see much of religion vs science debate over here ,,
let me give u a hint of possible solution to both of these topics : " Aliens are gods"
ajazaad 3 months ago in playlist Alien Worlds
i'm atheist, but why are we discussing about this?
Tombuutkamp2000 3 months ago in playlist Alien Worlds
religion is so narrow. religion is entirely human-centric. How can you still refer to a piece of work that places humanity at the centre of the universe when you are looking at the marvels all around? Nothing is more humanly arrogant than religion, for man being at the center of it all.
TaintedFaith88 3 months ago in playlist Planets and Solar Systems
Shut up clown
CragScrambler 3 months ago
Why should we give a damn about exoplanets? It is not like we can reach one any time soon. Astronomers are just collecting more data of no practical use. Don't astronomers have to know about gravity?
So why can't they figure out that the distribution of steel has to be important in skyscrapers? Can't astronomers comprehend the physics of 9/11? Why should everyone be interested in the problem of exoplanets if scientists won't resolve a problem on this planet? Do astronomers have exobrains?
psikeyhackr 3 months ago
@psikeyhackr Finding life in the out reachers of our universe is more important than 9/11, because 9/11's over. It was a sad thing, but for fuck sake stop making documentaries on it
krashmckiwi 3 months ago in playlist Alien Worlds
@krashmckiwi Could life be detected on Earth from Mars if it were not for radio transmissions and possible the presence of oxygen in the atmosphere. And the oxygen would only be proof of plant life.
It is so funny that people who claim to be SCIENTIFIC can't handle the Newtonian Physics of a skyscraper.
psikeyhackr 3 months ago 2
@psikeyhackr What?!!?
krashmckiwi 2 months ago
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stillwater027 2 months ago
@psikeyhackr Astronomers probably do debate the serious issue of 9/11. Anyone looking at the end result of those 3 buildings HAS to wonder..' That ain't natural.'... We will after all have to grow up very quickly when it is widely know that we are surrounded by life on other planets...maybe with historical distance, wise men and women will openly debate the questionable official report, the popular media will start also and it will become more 'fashionable' to be informed with REAL facts...maybe
stillwater027 2 months ago
But the REAL question is, Could we blow up those super earths ? Because they might be harboring terrorists trying to invade our country. I suggest we nuke the crap out of them as soon as possible.
-Yours truly, American Goverment.
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hamidmanowar 4 months ago
i hope i can see my future wife there.
MegaManBn 4 months ago
I'm curious. Liquid water requires not only the right temp of a planet, but the pressure of the atmosphere. I'm aware of how astronomers determine the temp of the planet as well as the composition of the atmosphere. Can anyone tell me how they would determine the pressure? Do they just make an educated guess based on gas laws, graviational forces of the planet, and temperature? Just curious.
Ripley747 4 months ago
@Ripley747 If they can see it directly, and not just infer it's existence based on it's gravitational effects on it's star, they can determine atmospheric composition via spectograph. I'm not sure about the others, though.
1978atcarroll 4 months ago
@1978atcarroll I'm not sure. I thought of that. As the planet passes in front of the star, it blocks some of the light and the light passes through the atmosphere (not really direct observation but hey) and based on that we can determine what chemistry is in the atmosphere. Of course that would only tell us what's in it, not the quantity and of course composition doesn't affect pressure (P=(nRT)/V). Would they make an assumption based on the density and gravitational pull on gases? I don't know
Ripley747 4 months ago
@Ripley747
If u can measure the diameter and the mass of a planet u can then extrapolate the planet's density. Visual observations may also help to find out details about the atmosphere.
mancamiatipoola 4 months ago
@mancamiatipoola Density of the planet is not difficult. You can indirectly measure the density based on the gravitational pull on the parent star for mass and the diameter based on the light it blocks if it passes in front of the star. Visual observations are difficult unless the planet is very large. I'm wondering about the density of the atmosphere which can determine what phase the water is in (ice, liquid, steam, etc). Educated guess based on gravitational pull?
Ripley747 4 months ago
her accent reminds me of southpark for some reason...
LTN000 4 months ago
with so many stars out their, they bound to be another planet that similar to earth.
mttp88 4 months ago
What are all these religious morons going to say once we do find life on other planets? They'll just go back and re-write their stupid dog-shit bible to make room for it. Fucking idiots.
BlameRepublicans 4 months ago
@BlameRepublicans They're going to try and convert them of course, and it's hilarious to see one to try and justify it.
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@BlameRepublicans I am not religious but, I have had devine intervention on several occasions within my life time. Your personality is your soul, we are living in Hell as Earth is the devils domain. Screw up and you are sent back here again.
thehumancritic1 4 months ago
@thehumancritic1 Think about what you just said...
"I am not religious but..."
Let me put it into context for you:
I'm not racist but...
I'm not sexist but...
I don't hate atheists but...
I don't mean to brag but...
Getting the hint?
Let me make it clear. You ARE religious. You don't have to pretend you aren't. There's no reason to be dishonest about your religious faith. It's ok. And admitting you're religious gives you more credibility imo b/c at least you're honest about it.
Ripley747 4 months ago 5
@Ripley747 Took the words right out of my mouth!
BlameRepublicans 4 months ago
@thehumancritic1
Dude, u played too much Diablo! Snap out of it, u're starting to believe them silly stories about demons that were meant to scare kids. Take a vacation, enjoy life, do some traveling, before Diablo 3 comes out and bites u in the ass :).
Take care.
mancamiatipoola 4 months ago
@mancamiatipoola Diablo - never even heard of it dipstick. Look back at your life as a whole and assess it. There is only about 25% of it that is enjoyable the remainder is you wondering about trying to survive and get ahead. Soon it will be trying to survive. I embrace death and cannot wait till it finally knocks on my door.
thehumancritic1 3 months ago
Since you seem to have 100% of all the answers then you do not need me. Happy You Tubing!
Energy321com 5 months ago
come onnn warp technology
NotSooNoobish 5 months ago
and i love the damm good video
SuperAndroidTV 5 months ago
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SuperAndroidTV 5 months ago
Maybe other life doesnt need water to live maybe it lives of carbon and other stuff.
CheezAce 5 months ago
@CheezAce Possible. But that is certainly not true on Earth. Life flourishes everywhere. From high in the atmosphere to 7 miles below the sea surface. In ultra-briny conditions. At above H2O's boiling point. In the solid ice of glaciers. In PH's acidic as battery acid or as corrosive as lye. But not in the sands of the Atacama Desert. 10x drier than the Sahara, its sands are sterile as a surgical scalpel. None of Earth's trillions of species has been able to adapt to exist with so little water.
sbergman27 5 months ago
why are like all the new planets that were discovered but we cant get to named something retarded like h123f5 and some random number/letter code why not something cool because all the planets that were found a long time ago in our solar system have actual names???
1MASTEROFGAME 5 months ago
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Pandora is the nearest earth-like planet we can get to, it's in the solar system called Alpha Centauri, just 4.37 light years away. astronauts say the time of space travelling we need is 15 years to get there... well that's what i heard! haha
LOVEuBlink182 5 months ago
@LOVEuBlink182 sorry but with our current technology it would take about 50,000 years for our very fastest spacecraft to get to Alpha Centauri. (EarthSky.org)
55metalmonkey 5 months ago
@LOVEuBlink182 JUST 4.37 light years........ /not far then/
WarriorRazor 5 months ago
@LOVEuBlink182 going to mars takes like 2 years and mars is light seconds away... travel 4.37 light years would be impossible with this technology, if astronauts would go there it would take around 70 years to be just going out of the solar system, you should not believe everything you heard :)
dddanielsr 5 months ago
@LOVEuBlink182 With our current technology it would take tens of thousands of years I'm afraid. We need other types of propulsion systems, such as antimatter or nuclear fusion based systems (ideally antimatter is involved) in order to make the trip feasible within a human life-span.
ianman6 4 months ago
& dont forget the ultimate end goal of searchin for life on other planets....................
so that WE LIVE ON THEM HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR
republicansridiots 5 months ago
Am I the only one that witches the first planet to be colonize by humanity outside of our solar system be called Reach...:)
nanky432 5 months ago
Man's inhumanity toward man says more about human freedom than God's ineptitude. If you don't like the fact that people are starving and suffering from disease and war, then you are borrowing that belief from the Judeo-Christian World View, not the evolutionary pseudo-scientific Philosophical Naturalistic World View which is all about the survival of the fittest, not compassion.
inkling43 5 months ago
guys stop the religion talk i mean shit im a christian u know why? because i want to be. I have my doutbs about god sometimes but, i mean without it wat do i have to look forward too. i mean without beleiveing u have to go through all your life KNOWing that there is nothing else every again so i choose to beleive just in case im right :) ( and if im wrong well whos gonna punish me? )
dinowild123 5 months ago
@dinowild123 i agree about the religion talk, but i gotta ask.....do you really want to live for eternity? sounds like hell to me. and also, haven't you heard of pascal's wager?
CanyoneroTimbo 5 months ago
I am so hoping they find that the neutrinos actually broke the cosmic speed barrier! If so, we might be 20 years away from warp and FTL drives!
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ktawut 5 months ago
yeah.. just keep the pace up.. I wanna see aliens in my life-time thank you!
Leon2101 5 months ago 84
@Leon2101 ye we all do, but what will you do when you see a "scary" one facing you? Run away screaming like a little girl? Thought so :D
DaedalusTV 5 months ago
@DaedalusTV "...but what will you do when you see a scary one..."
I've seen enough movies & shows to have some rules of thumb about this. Style of dress is very important. Flowing robes (The Metrons) usually means honest, friendly, & trustworthy. Business suits ("The Day The Earth Stood Still") usually means they're here to warn us about something. The ones that just attack you naked ("Alien") are the ones you need to worry about.
sbergman27 5 months ago
@sbergman27 TV shows are Sci-Fi bro, udk how it really is in real life. And naked aliens are idiots cuz they go around showing their genitals to everyone xd
DaedalusTV 4 months ago
@DaedalusTV "showing their genitals to everyone"
In "Alien" he/she/it didn't have any. Look closely. Obviously a "Worker Bee". This is in accordance with "Aliens 2" where the hive structure of their living cycle is revealed. We got to see the "Queen Alien". Only certain members of Alien society were born to fuck the Queen. Not particularly relevant to the topic, but still interesting... drones of certain bee species actually explode when they come. (Makes things difficult for the next guy.)
sbergman27 4 months ago
@Leon2101 You just might buddy. Odds are looking better every day if you consider them in the context of the rate of exoplanet discovery.
ianman6 4 months ago
@ianman6 Thats great =D But the real "turn off" is the problem with space travel, isn't it? =( I mean, we wanna get there as soon as possible after discovering life on one of these super-earths.
Leon2101 4 months ago
@Leon2101 And even with water, a planet may only have microscopic life. If you go to a place with a microscope, cut yourself, then put it on a microscope slate. View it. That's what it could look like.
hgfggg1 3 months ago
@Leon2101 I know how you feel that rush of thinking we will be able to see thing other than we see now a days and able to experience something new and important in our life times .
EtinxD 2 months ago
that chick has a sexy voice
SteveDutchy 5 months ago
So which planet is Kronos? :)
ThePrimeAres 5 months ago
A new and fresh world? I want to look to earth while earth is burning...
Maybe its 35/ly but theres no IMPOSSIBLE. But, we can talk this in 3011. Not now.
I hope the burn will be still alive at 3000's...
Zeroarcanus 5 months ago
What is it with all those religious comments? People, it's nice that you believe in god, but religious comments are not gonna get you anything good but an argument, especially if you talk like you know it all and god this, god that.. Just go on a religious forum or something, this is science, cool stuff. Keep religion out of it, thanks :)
MrAXDM 5 months ago
cool
jomill78 5 months ago
Only God knows when the hell we're gonna meet new life. But have aliens already come here? lol...
Godclash 5 months ago
Awesome.
msginca 5 months ago
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Oh, hey! We found new planets... now just to find a way to get to them....
TheSCPStudio 5 months ago
Oh, hey! We found new planets... now just to find a way to get to them....
TheSCPStudio 5 months ago
I still wonder what will happen and if they keep it a secret when they do find some other life.
gabeasher187 5 months ago
Bunch of new planets orbiting in the "habitable zone"
We're getting closer!!
LatinoVibe 5 months ago
5 people are from an exoplanet that doesn't want to be invaded by apes like us.
HalfFullYeah 5 months ago
Would it be fare to say. this video had a life changing effect to it?
Lucuskane 5 months ago
I love science, but scientist sure do suck at naming things. Just ask people to write in good names for new planets, instead of giving them random letters and numbers. How cool would it be, if there was a habitable planet named "Mordor" out there in space?
ErnilEnNaur 5 months ago
haha wow what a load of CRAP. they cant even see the planets and show us, just stupid computer graphics. i dont believe this "exoplanet" nonsense for a second, seems like just another attempt by so called scientists to make us think that we are not special, to make us think that there is no God for us.. but they will learn sooner or later
xjaskix 5 months ago
@xjaskix LOL. We'd have to figure out interstellar travel before literally being able to see the planet. We can measure their size, orbit, and distance from their stars with advanced telescopes.
Maybe if your religion hadn't oppressed science and technology for 2000 years, we'd be colonising other planets by now!
GreenyFool 5 months ago 4
@xjaskix
Why are you using the Internet? You do know that The computers, the electricity and even the Internet you are using right now is created by those evil scientists?
obaeyens 5 months ago
@xjaskix, You are either retarded or an excellant troll/poe... I love you either way...
You think that the exoplanets that can't be seen are bullshit, but you buy the bit about the invisable sky daddy... That is fucking awesome... Pure comedy...
ProblemofSuffering 5 months ago 11
@ProblemofSuffering ALL HAIL THE FSM!! R'AMEN
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MrAXDM 5 months ago
am I the only one who wants to drill these ExoPlanets for metals?
davidthegreatgeneral 5 months ago
@davidthegreatgeneral
Nope. As a mining engineer I want to do exactly that. I want to go where no man has gone before, to discover new worlds, and mine them for all of their precious minerals. In many ways, when we mine underground we are delving into the unknown.
bayouboyy 5 months ago
4 people aren't situated in the hapitable zone.
ImSiriouslyVeryAngry 5 months ago
I think the discovery of life or some form of life on these exoplanets would shake the very foundations of every religion on earth.
nicnacks2007 5 months ago
@nicnacks2007 Or give them someone new to evangelise to. The mental gymnastics these morons can perform should enable them to have no trouble in claiming ET life as gods work. I think I'll have a little cry now :-(
XXXPopeBenedictXVI 5 months ago
@XXXPopeBenedictXVI yeah those people feeds on other people's beliefs and weaknesses. lets just hope it would open more minds.
nicnacks2007 5 months ago
@nicnacks2007 why bring religion into every fukin discussion ? moron
hayden50 5 months ago
@hayden50 Why not? Religions were invented to give meaning to life or to explain the origin of life or the universe. So how would it explain life on other planet? nvm u wont get it anyway u ass
nicnacks2007 5 months ago
@nicnacks2007 hey asswipe, i'm an atheist..and nobody wants to hear your opinions about religion, so fuck off...
hayden50 5 months ago
@hayden50 i dont give a damn. go fuck a goat like you always do LOL
nicnacks2007 5 months ago
I don't really see the point in these satellites looking for planets similar to earth as even if there was an exact replica, we wouldn't be able to get there with the current shuttle we have lol.
So it will most likely not happen in our life time.
I do agree that we need to focus more on what's out there then all these silly things we have here.
If only it was possible for ships to go in some sort of 'Hypersapce' :P ... well everyone thought it was impossible to go to the moon..
monstanator 5 months ago
@monstanator
"So it will most likely not happen in our life time."
You contradict yourself in your own comment. We did go to the moon. I am done with you naysayers. You offer nothing to humanity at your best and at your worst you hold us back. Go back to your cave, we have science to do.
Also, you see no point? Then you are a lost cause. If you think science is a structured and guided path where we get to choose where discoveries come from, then you are exceptionally delusional.
bayouboyy 5 months ago
@bayouboyy
Sorry but are you on your period? or were you sexually but - raped by an extraterrestrial?
From what I can tell, you are a waste to our society because you seem to be attached to this video like my balls are to my dick. Replying to every comment like you know it all and after all I see you brag about being some sort of a mining engineer which has nothing to do with planets nor this video.
So please do everyone a favor and let people comment the way they want.
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@bayouboyy
Sorry but are you on your period? or were you sexually but - raped by an extraterrestrial?
From what I can tell, you are a waste to our society because you seem to be attached to this video like my balls are to my dick. Replying to every comment like you know it all and after all I see you brag about being some sort of a mining engineer which has nothing to do with planets nor this video.
So please do everyone a favor and let people comment the way they want.
monstanator 5 months ago
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@bayouboyy
Sorry but are you on your period? or were you sexually but - raped by an extraterrestrial?
From what I can tell, you are a waste to our society because you seem to be attached to this video like my balls are to my dick. Replying to every comment like you know it all and after all I see you brag about being some sort of a mining engineer which has nothing to do with planets nor this video.
So please do everyone a favor and let people comment the way they want.
monstanator 5 months ago
One thing that is FORSURE.....Energy's characteristic is infinity....forever bigger and smaller....same goes for numbers whether it be to the positive or negative. That you know for a fact by the evidence of what a person can see all around. Once you know all the characteristics of energy, it becomes easy to answer aged old questions about the universe, but many people seem to keep overlooking the characteristics of energy. That is why man has not evolved more than he has.
Energy321com 5 months ago
@Energy321com Why exactly do you think that energy is infinite? The universe has a finite age and, according to known science, a finite mass. The properties of the universe need not be analogous to those of mathematics.
handplanty 5 months ago
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MsNamasteLight 5 months ago
With the size and age of the known universe it's not too hard to imagine that somewhere on the opposite side a planet develop a life form intelligent enought o build weapons powerful enough to destroy itself before it could make contact with other life forms? Perhaps the probloem with evolution is that it hasn't yet stumbled across a life form capable of great intelligence and equal wisdom not to overcosnume, develop greed, envy etc.. and destroy itself within a few short years?
MusicStudyMan 5 months ago
I agree that we should study the cosmos but shouldnt we focus more on keeping our own planet habitable? With all the contamination we produce it will not matter how far we can see in space when we ignore whats happening in our own beautiful planet.
ever2146 5 months ago
@toocoolforu cute! ...I removed my first reply 'cause when I re-read it there were several spelling typos that aside I kind of chuckled as I read your comment ...so thanks! ...for one of today's smiles
gaiagale 5 months ago
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gaiagale 5 months ago
it is more than obvious that here... and in the others "twin" planets are life... they have more time than ours
lorena0987 5 months ago
Better than any Sci-fi movies.
TheSymonDe 5 months ago 38
man If the they found life, my head will explode
BIGBOSSTEDDY 5 months ago
I'm now having a question, why are they so desperately trying to find earth like planet, have we destroied the earth really so bad that in a while it's not livable?
Tujuparandaja 5 months ago
@Tujuparandaja
no its to answer the obvious question, is there life out there in the cosmos and we all know there is, but we only now need evidence
Tullijatt604 5 months ago
@Tullijatt604 We don't know, because you can't know somenthing you don't, we all only guess and hope, before evidence there's no knowing.
Tujuparandaja 5 months ago
@Tujuparandaja
saying there is no life outside our earth is stupid to say the very least, sorry if you really know space, than you know that there billions of galaxy's and possibilities of life out there is 100% guarantee. why hope when we know the earth is going to die a miserable death, whether that be by the sun, asteroids, super volcano.
Tullijatt604 5 months ago
The biggest star that we have discovered makes earth a speck of sand when compared to it....JUST KNOW...there is another star out there that makes that star a speck of sand compared to it...etc......and that goes on forever = infinity. One of energy’s qualities.
Energy321com 5 months ago
@Energy321com thats doubtful. for a whole universe to gather in 1 point, to become a star is an impossibility.
i think it would collapse under its own gravity,and become a black hole before it gets that massive.
you really think there's a star thats larger than the/a universe?
elmondark 5 months ago
@Energy321com That's not true, a star could reach a size which cannot withstand its own gravity and it would collapse, like it does when it goes supernova and becomes a black hole.
MrAXDM 5 months ago
The different sizes of planets reveal one of energy's valuable tools. Every little or big thing has smaller parts or bigger parts. Energy items will forever get bigger and forever smaller. It's the key element as to answering the age old question....where are we. Is it possible that we are a very small part of another higher intelligent person? [inside a human body...as a small element]
Energy321com 5 months ago
dubstep, outro
colebarclay 5 months ago
to bad there all 99999999999999 light years away...
yeahduden 5 months ago
@yeahduden
worm holes
namfromwyoming 5 months ago
@namfromwyoming good luck with that.
TheTramsen 5 months ago
if there ten times the size of earth would it not create much more gravity and thus make it difficult for life as we know it? though I guess life could adapt to that as well.
Am I completely wrong on this or not comments anyone?
daveforfun22 5 months ago
@daveforfun22 yes it would, but not impossible, denser bone structures or no bones and only in water as jelly fish or single celled organisms, perhaps. Don't foget that gravity is the most powerful force in the universe, but also the weakest and most easy to overcome so evolution would find a way I'm sure.
MusicStudyMan 5 months ago
If it weren't for religion, there would be no Christian dark ages where science was frowned upon, and anyone not believing in God getting stoned to death. Without religion, our society would be 1000 years more advanced, and we would probably have reached planets like this by now.
*sigh*
Davve941018 5 months ago
@Davve941018 not true. even if religion was not that important back then we still would have had technological limits, we would have been able to just start to understand how to build all these complex machines.
TCardianT 5 months ago
@TCardianT wat
Davve941018 5 months ago
:55 my god, it's full of stars
xjen7 5 months ago
When we find life on other planet, I will die quietly.
ImSiriouslyVeryAngry 5 months ago
I have this ExoPlanet app in my iphone... GREAT.
7othman7 5 months ago
We need to stop spending resources on idiocy like religion or war and get moving out into space. This one planet will not cradle us forever. It is only a matter of time before an extinction event happens again.
TheAnubisDrake 5 months ago 95
@TheAnubisDrake Amen to that!
Davve941018 5 months ago
@TheAnubisDrake well said my friend, well said.......
diamondrio21 5 months ago
@TheAnubisDrake I totally agree don't forget the money burned on politics too
Spirito2008 5 months ago
@TheAnubisDrake
The problem is that it will take decades to ever colonize these exoplanets. the closest one is 35 light years away. if we move at the speed of sound, it will still take nearly a century to get there. And Humankind can never adopt to the form of photons to reach the speed of light.
kaminoneh 5 months ago
@kaminoneh Just a heads up! :) With current technology it would take about 729,000 years to get to a star that is 35 light years away, so a whole lot more than just a century. And the speed of sound is not even 1000 mi/hr so at that speed it would literally take millions of years to get there.
MrAXDM 5 months ago 11
@MrAXDM
What has the speed of sound to do with space?
obaeyens 5 months ago
@obaeyens I was just explaining something to another user, but when it comes to space travel, the speed of sound is not even worth mentioning.
MrAXDM 5 months ago
@MrAXDM
It would take millions of years to get to the 35LY exoplanet with speed of light, but only 729,000 years with just our current technology? I'm a bit confused :-( isn't the speed of sound much faster than the current technology that we have right now? At what speed do our rocket ships launch?
kaminoneh 5 months ago
@kaminoneh
I cannot believe you are serious. You haven't heard about humans breaking the sound barrier over 60 years ago? People go faster than the speed of sound every day. 340.29 m/s is the speed of sound at STP. The Saturn V rocket which carried man to the moon in the 60's had a velocity of 11,200 m/s to escape Earth's gravity well.
You seriously need to get an education before you start attempting to understand this subject matter. How do you know about photons and not escape velocities?
bayouboyy 5 months ago
@bayouboyy
WTF are you on about idiot? If you read any of my previous comments, I already mentioned humans reaching the speed of sound... Stop being an ignorant prick, taking my comment out of context and go troll someone else.
kaminoneh 5 months ago
@kaminoneh
Right, next time, realize that sarcasm doesn't carry with words. Additionally, it seems that you are the are the one who cannot read. MrAXDM said millions of years to go 35LY at the speed of sound and 729,000 years with current day probe velocities. Your previous comments are a mess and you seriously lack a fundamental understanding of what is being discussed. It seems that only you are having a problem here. Calling me an idiot? Whatever floats your boat.
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@kaminoneh
"if we move at the speed of sound, it will still take nearly a century to get there."
You brought up the speed of sound. You are the one confusing everybody and I am positive that you do not grasp what you assert. Not even close to the same magnitude there, and you call me an idiot.
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bayouboyy 5 months ago
@kaminoneh Lol just read my previous response again, and it might help to do some research on speed of light and distances in space so that you can get a better understanding of the whole space travel subject. But just leave the speed of sound out of this, it's irrelevant.
MrAXDM 5 months ago
@MrAXDM You do know Alfa-Centauri is about 4-5 light years away right? why r u talkin about 35...
DaedalusTV 5 months ago
@DaedalusTV None of the Centauri stars (Proxima or Alphas A & B) show signs of having any planets at all, let alone habitable ones. The nearest possible candidate that I know of is Gliese 581d, 20 ly away. (Gliese 581g made a splash, but its existence is questionable.) BTW, MrAXDM's time estimate is very optimistic, even for a flyby. Optimistically, a flyby to Apha Centauri with current tech might take 90,000 yrs. Of course, the probe would have to last that long.
sbergman27 5 months ago
@kaminoneh You think the fastest we can go in space is the speed of sound? Look up how fast the Voyager probes are going now and remember that those were made with propulsion technology from decades ago.
Also the closest SO FAR discovered exoplanet may be about 35 LY away. There are likely many closer to us that are even more similar in size/density to earth.
As yet we have not put up the equipment to detect earth size exoplanets. We have the tech to do it, we just are not.
TheAnubisDrake 5 months ago
@TheAnubisDrake
My question is will human body withstand the pressure of traveling at the speed of light? Let's say even if we build a transporter that's capable of traveling at the speed of light and IT can travel all the way to an exoplent; how can we as humans, full of mass, travel at the speed of light? We'd have to turn our flesh into photons in order to attain that speed. Don't you think it's a bit unrealistic?
The rest I agree with. perhaps there might be an earth-like planet 15LY away.
kaminoneh 5 months ago
@kaminoneh
So, argument from ignorance then?
You are asking the wrong questions. Why do you insist that we must accelerate to the speed of light to travel? The idea of going around near the speed of light is slow anyways. Just because light is the fastest particle we know of, doesn't mean we have to become photons. Saying that FLT travel (a subject we know very little of) is incomprehensible to you is no different then people 100 years ago would say about going to the moon.
bayouboyy 5 months ago
@TheAnubisDrake tell that to Obummer and his science Tsar J.P. Holdren... for two years they managed to derail work towards a heavy lift launch vehicle that could get humans to mars. They didn't even cut NASA's budget- they just said: "no more human spaceflight! take your money and build some satellites but no progress"- that caused an uproar and the plans are back as of this week- bu two years are gone... Ya see, they're marxists, eugenists, and zero groth activists- watch out for the bastards.
SiemaZiomek 5 months ago
@SiemaZiomek WTF does marxism, eugenics or zero growth policy have to do with space travel funding?
TheAnubisDrake 5 months ago
@TheAnubisDrake Human space flight is the pinnacle of human development. Today,advocates of central planning and collectivist systems (fascism, communism) don't want growth and development and they hate the idea of human expansion into space-they want their totalitarian system first (BTW i think Bush was the same thing). That's how I see it but dont take my word for it- here is what the head of the Mars Society has to say about it:
watch?v=7M6AyCGCZbY&list=FLL41jeL3oyTfywJKeITvXFA&index=3
SiemaZiomek 5 months ago
@SiemaZiomek Constellation never had a chance. Just read the Augustine Report. Obama put the HSP back on track. That said, considering that the American public is consistently unwilling to spend more than 50 cents a wk per capita on NASA, the HSP is a waste of precious funding. It makes far more sense to spend it on real science missions, rather than pie-in-the-sky promises of space cowboy photo-shoot opportunities on Mars. In lieu of a taxpayer attitude change miracle, I'd give HSP the axe.
sbergman27 5 months ago
@sbergman27 Im not an advocate of "space cowboy photo-shoot"... Im more in favor of expanding human reach in space and establishing a permanent presence on Mars- the approach of the Mars Society. Of course its easy to dismiss ideas like that in favor of the much easier, robotic, "real science missions" that utilize 60yr old tech and give us nothing but gigabytes of data fed into excel sheets on university computers... Think about what the last space cowboy photo shoot gave in terms of new tech..
SiemaZiomek 5 months ago
@SiemaZiomek Read Augustine. Constellation would have cost 900x what MER has cost over 7yrs of operation. & about 360x MSL's budget. 100x JWST's. Meanwhile, LISA, TPF, TSSM, & many others, have all been cancelled due to lack of budget . Read about those projects & the opportunities lost. If the MS loons want to launch themselves to their deaths on a shoestring budget, let them raise the money privately. Also note that the spinoffs/$ ratio for science missions has been greater than for the HSP.
sbergman27 5 months ago
@sbergman27 don't worry the "MS loons" (all those loony aerospace engineers and scientists from many fields of study- at least I didn't start throwing insults at people, sheesh) are already thinking about private funding and I hope they make it either way- and if someone dies, well that's exploration... All Im saying is that the space program should be more about humans reaching out into space, and learning about it... Not just learning about it. Just my point of view.
SiemaZiomek 5 months ago
@SiemaZiomek "..throwing insults.."
I debated & then remembered watching 1 of their meetings. Anyway, I'm pro-HSF. But 35yrs of watching American parsimony re: space has sharpened my pragmatism. I hated STS. But love NASA spending to foster a private LEO service industry. It *generates new money*. If the MS, uh.. "optimists" can raise *private* funding to cover their shoestring plan & have people crazy enough to go on their 1 way suicide mission then I'm all for it. But I don't call it science.
sbergman27 5 months ago