Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star

[Harry Dresden]

Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star
Pale Red Dot campaign reveals Earth-mass world in orbit around Proxima Centauri
24 August 2016
Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star - Pale Red Dot campaign reveals Earth-mass world in orbit around Proxima Centauri
Awesome and amazing news!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A earth like planet in the habital zone of our closes star!!!!!

When people don't believe in God they'll believe in anything.

I suggest you go to find out.

what does believing or not believing in god have to do with exploring space?....

What's exploring space have to do with saying aliens exist?

i asked you first.....if you dont know just say so....and by the way,God,if he exists....is an Alien being...

You need to go back to 4th grade and learn the meaning of alien.

oh god is not an alien being?....what is he?...and dont worry i dont mean he is a Klingon..

 

[sealybobo]

So as of now we can probably send messages back and forth at the speed of light so 8 years to send a message and get one back. We can send nano ships in 20 years one way and 18,000 years to get there ourselves. Thats 180 generations. We better get started.

Step one is a base on Mars because it's closer to the meteor belt. To build a ship as big as a small moon we will need those resources.

Should we figure out how to go faster first? No. Because it'll be great for the pilgrims to see new technology catch up to them.

first off bobo we have to have the ships to carry this out.....get them to a refueling station in orbit to replace the fuel used to escape earths gravity.....then get to the Moon base and once again refuel and get the supplies needed to get to Mars......then get to those Asteroids and let the mining begin.....

Imagine there are men who's job is to plan this all out. Because you know they are working on this. Whether it's on paper or the space station or even Voyager 1 & 2. Hell, we even have rovers on Mars and landed a probe on a comet. Yes we are so very far from Star trek but you have heard if you can imagine it you can do it.

Don't be a hater. Sure it seems impossible but people a lot smarter than us are working on it.

Imagine how much more we know today than we did even 100 years ago. Now imagine 1000 years from now

dont be a hater?....were did you get that from?....im all for the space program....i cant stand the people who think its a waste of time.....those ones are too stupid to realize how that program advances science and technology....

You were making fun of squeezing a human into one of those nano bots.

What if we figured out how to transport a person from point a to b in a flash. Think that's impossible? Think about how you can talk to someone in Europe on the phone. Would people 200 years ago believe you could talk into a device and have that voice somehow travel thru the wires and talk to someone in Europe on such a device? With maybe only a 10 second delay? I still don't understand how it works

i was?.....maybe that aint so impossible either....how do they get all that info on a micro chip?....

See this is what I mean. I'm a yes we can man and you're not.

Lets just say if we both lived in El Paso I'd be a Mexican and you'd be a Mexicant

 

[ScienceRocks]

Some propulsion choices
Bussard ramjet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

or

Antimatter rocket - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

or
Fission-fragment rocket - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

With exhaust velocities of 3% - 5% the speed of light and efficiencies up to 90%, the rocket should be able to achieve over 1,000,000 sec Isp.

 

[ScienceRocks]

If this planet has oceans the hot dipole getting the direct sun like might have a massive storm. This storm would be the low pressure with rising air that then spreads out the heat over the rest of the planet.

Kind of like in this show

Extraterrestrial | Netflix

 

[ScienceRocks]

What I was talking about above!

 

[sealybobo]

Some propulsion choices
Bussard ramjet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

or

Antimatter rocket - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

or
Fission-fragment rocket - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

With exhaust velocities of 3% - 5% the speed of light and efficiencies up to 90%, the rocket should be able to achieve over 1,000,000 sec Isp.

So how long to get there at these speeds?

 

[SixFoot]

Proxima b was added to the Habitable Exoplanets Catalog (HEC) [2] as one of the best objects of interest for the search for life in the universe. The planet orbits well within the conservative habitable zone of Proxima Centauri. Additionally, Proxima b is now not only the closest potentially habitable planet to Earth (4.2 light years away), but it is also the most similar to Earth (ESI = 0.87) [3], with respect to Earth’s mass and insolation.

A Potentially Habitable World in Our Nearest Star - Planetary Habitability Laboratory @ UPR Arecibo

I honestly think kepler 442b is still the better candidate for below 1.5 earth radius planets as it isn't tidally locked as it orbits a k-class star(112 day orbit) and is only slightly larger in radius. Secondly, if you look at the original source for Kepler k2-72e and not the PHL(which has twice the solar flex) it could also be argued to be nearly as good. The big news about this new planet is it is so close while these two are so far! And it is a awesome candidate as it is the best we could of hoped for around a small m-class star.

According to the Green Children of Woolpit, we should pay close attention to those Red Dwarfs.

Green children of Woolpit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"After learning to speak English, the children – Ralph says just the surviving girl – explained that they came from a land where the sun never shone and the light was like twilight."


A land of 24 hour "sunset"?? Sign me up!

 

[JoeMoma]

Proxima Centauri alone claims the honor of being our true nearest stellar neighbor at only 4.24 light years

78,000 years to get there.

not at warp 5.....

We can actually reach it in 20 years with real technology. Maybe.

Using a giant set of lasers to catapult thousands of miniature spacecraft 25 trillion miles to the Alpha Centauri star system may sound like the stuff of science fiction.

But Internet entrepreneur and science philanthropist Yuri Milner, in collaboration with renowned cosmologist Stephen Hawking and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, is placing a $100-million bet that he can turn this into science reality within a generation.

Milner announced on Tuesday the creation of “Breakthrough Starshot,” a research project meant to prove that it’s possible to propel nanoscale spacecraft at one-fifth the speed of light. (See animation below.)

That’s equal to 60 million meters per second, or 134 million miles per hour. At this speed, the craft would reach our nearest star system in about 20 years, or more than a thousand times quicker than today’s fastest spacecraft, Milner says.

This 20-Gram Nano-Spacecraft Could Usher In A New Era In Space Exploration

be hard to fit a person in one of them things bobo.....

Maybe we get the technology to shrink a human. Or maybe we just send DNA/Seed and plant the planet and on the space ship it will give them instructions on how to find us and communicate with us. We can do it!

Seeding a planet with DNA....hmmmm

Perhaps they seeded out planet with DNA....... hmmmmmmm.

 

[Harry Dresden]

first off bobo we have to have the ships to carry this out.....get them to a refueling station in orbit to replace the fuel used to escape earths gravity.....then get to the Moon base and once again refuel and get the supplies needed to get to Mars......then get to those Asteroids and let the mining begin.....

Imagine there are men who's job is to plan this all out. Because you know they are working on this. Whether it's on paper or the space station or even Voyager 1 & 2. Hell, we even have rovers on Mars and landed a probe on a comet. Yes we are so very far from Star trek but you have heard if you can imagine it you can do it.

Don't be a hater. Sure it seems impossible but people a lot smarter than us are working on it.

Imagine how much more we know today than we did even 100 years ago. Now imagine 1000 years from now

dont be a hater?....were did you get that from?....im all for the space program....i cant stand the people who think its a waste of time.....those ones are too stupid to realize how that program advances science and technology....

You were making fun of squeezing a human into one of those nano bots.

What if we figured out how to transport a person from point a to b in a flash. Think that's impossible? Think about how you can talk to someone in Europe on the phone. Would people 200 years ago believe you could talk into a device and have that voice somehow travel thru the wires and talk to someone in Europe on such a device? With maybe only a 10 second delay? I still don't understand how it works

i was?.....maybe that aint so impossible either....how do they get all that info on a micro chip?....

See this is what I mean. I'm a yes we can man and you're not.

Lets just say if we both lived in El Paso I'd be a Mexican and you'd be a Mexicant

how can you base that on what i just said bobo?...that has always been your problem here,you have preconceived notions about anyone who doesnt follow the same line of thought that you have...and as many times as you have been wrong,you think you would have learned by now....in that theater you are the Mexiwrong....

 

[Harry Dresden]

So as of now we can probably send messages back and forth at the speed of light so 8 years to send a message and get one back. We can send nano ships in 20 years one way and 18,000 years to get there ourselves. Thats 180 generations. We better get started.

Step one is a base on Mars because it's closer to the meteor belt. To build a ship as big as a small moon we will need those resources.

Should we figure out how to go faster first? No. Because it'll be great for the pilgrims to see new technology catch up to them.

first off bobo we have to have the ships to carry this out.....get them to a refueling station in orbit to replace the fuel used to escape earths gravity.....then get to the Moon base and once again refuel and get the supplies needed to get to Mars......then get to those Asteroids and let the mining begin.....

Imagine there are men who's job is to plan this all out. Because you know they are working on this. Whether it's on paper or the space station or even Voyager 1 & 2. Hell, we even have rovers on Mars and landed a probe on a comet. Yes we are so very far from Star trek but you have heard if you can imagine it you can do it.

Don't be a hater. Sure it seems impossible but people a lot smarter than us are working on it.

Imagine how much more we know today than we did even 100 years ago. Now imagine 1000 years from now

dont be a hater?....were did you get that from?....im all for the space program....i cant stand the people who think its a waste of time.....those ones are too stupid to realize how that program advances science and technology....

You were making fun of squeezing a human into one of those nano bots.

What if we figured out how to transport a person from point a to b in a flash. Think that's impossible? Think about how you can talk to someone in Europe on the phone. Would people 200 years ago believe you could talk into a device and have that voice somehow travel thru the wires and talk to someone in Europe on such a device? With maybe only a 10 second delay? I still don't understand how it works

i was?.....maybe that aint so impossible either....how do they get all that info on a micro chip?....

how do you agree with me here,but then a few posts later your not agreeing?....you are strange guy bobo.....

 

[sealybobo]

Imagine there are men who's job is to plan this all out. Because you know they are working on this. Whether it's on paper or the space station or even Voyager 1 & 2. Hell, we even have rovers on Mars and landed a probe on a comet. Yes we are so very far from Star trek but you have heard if you can imagine it you can do it.

Don't be a hater. Sure it seems impossible but people a lot smarter than us are working on it.

Imagine how much more we know today than we did even 100 years ago. Now imagine 1000 years from now

dont be a hater?....were did you get that from?....im all for the space program....i cant stand the people who think its a waste of time.....those ones are too stupid to realize how that program advances science and technology....

You were making fun of squeezing a human into one of those nano bots.

What if we figured out how to transport a person from point a to b in a flash. Think that's impossible? Think about how you can talk to someone in Europe on the phone. Would people 200 years ago believe you could talk into a device and have that voice somehow travel thru the wires and talk to someone in Europe on such a device? With maybe only a 10 second delay? I still don't understand how it works

i was?.....maybe that aint so impossible either....how do they get all that info on a micro chip?....

See this is what I mean. I'm a yes we can man and you're not.

Lets just say if we both lived in El Paso I'd be a Mexican and you'd be a Mexicant

how can you base that on what i just said bobo?...that has always been your problem here,you have preconceived notions about anyone who doesnt follow the same line of thought that you have...and as many times as you have been wrong,you think you would have learned by now....in that theater you are the Mexiwrong....

And you'd think after knowing me long enough you'd know when I was just fucking with you dummy.

 

[Harry Dresden]

dont be a hater?....were did you get that from?....im all for the space program....i cant stand the people who think its a waste of time.....those ones are too stupid to realize how that program advances science and technology....

You were making fun of squeezing a human into one of those nano bots.

What if we figured out how to transport a person from point a to b in a flash. Think that's impossible? Think about how you can talk to someone in Europe on the phone. Would people 200 years ago believe you could talk into a device and have that voice somehow travel thru the wires and talk to someone in Europe on such a device? With maybe only a 10 second delay? I still don't understand how it works

i was?.....maybe that aint so impossible either....how do they get all that info on a micro chip?....

See this is what I mean. I'm a yes we can man and you're not.

Lets just say if we both lived in El Paso I'd be a Mexican and you'd be a Mexicant

how can you base that on what i just said bobo?...that has always been your problem here,you have preconceived notions about anyone who doesnt follow the same line of thought that you have...and as many times as you have been wrong,you think you would have learned by now....in that theater you are the Mexiwrong....

And you'd think after knowing me long enough you'd know when I was just fucking with you dummy.

well since you have never said this to me before in our other exchanges.....no i dont know.....and thats all one can base this kind of written stuff on is past conversations.....

 

[sealybobo]

You were making fun of squeezing a human into one of those nano bots.

What if we figured out how to transport a person from point a to b in a flash. Think that's impossible? Think about how you can talk to someone in Europe on the phone. Would people 200 years ago believe you could talk into a device and have that voice somehow travel thru the wires and talk to someone in Europe on such a device? With maybe only a 10 second delay? I still don't understand how it works

i was?.....maybe that aint so impossible either....how do they get all that info on a micro chip?....

See this is what I mean. I'm a yes we can man and you're not.

Lets just say if we both lived in El Paso I'd be a Mexican and you'd be a Mexicant

how can you base that on what i just said bobo?...that has always been your problem here,you have preconceived notions about anyone who doesnt follow the same line of thought that you have...and as many times as you have been wrong,you think you would have learned by now....in that theater you are the Mexiwrong....

And you'd think after knowing me long enough you'd know when I was just fucking with you dummy.

well since you have never said this to me before in our other exchanges.....no i dont know.....and thats all one can base this kind of written stuff on is past conversations.....

I'm always busting your balls but can't you tell I like you? I call you stupid and argue with you but you are a very decent cool smart logical wise common sense kind of guy. You just lean a little more right than I do. That's all.

 

[Harry Dresden]

i was?.....maybe that aint so impossible either....how do they get all that info on a micro chip?....

See this is what I mean. I'm a yes we can man and you're not.

Lets just say if we both lived in El Paso I'd be a Mexican and you'd be a Mexicant

how can you base that on what i just said bobo?...that has always been your problem here,you have preconceived notions about anyone who doesnt follow the same line of thought that you have...and as many times as you have been wrong,you think you would have learned by now....in that theater you are the Mexiwrong....

And you'd think after knowing me long enough you'd know when I was just fucking with you dummy.

well since you have never said this to me before in our other exchanges.....no i dont know.....and thats all one can base this kind of written stuff on is past conversations.....

I'm always busting your balls but can't you tell I like you? I call you stupid and argue with you but you are a very decent cool smart logical wise common sense kind of guy. You just lean a little more right than I do. That's all.

ah....come here you big lug....

 

[Old Rocks]

Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star
Pale Red Dot campaign reveals Earth-mass world in orbit around Proxima Centauri
24 August 2016
Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star - Pale Red Dot campaign reveals Earth-mass world in orbit around Proxima Centauri

Astronomers using ESO telescopes and other facilities have found clear evidence of a planet orbiting the closest star to Earth, Proxima Centauri. The long-sought world, designated Proxima b, orbits its cool red parent star every 11 days and has a temperature suitable for liquid water to exist on its surface. This rocky world is a little more massive than the Earth and is the closest exoplanet to us — and it may also be the closest possible abode for life outside the Solar System. A paper describing this milestone finding will be published in the journal Nature on 25 August 2016.

Just over four light-years from the Solar System lies a red dwarf star that has been named Proxima Centauri as it is the closest star to Earth apart from the Sun. This cool star in the constellation of Centaurus is too faint to be seen with the unaided eye and lies near to the much brighter pair of stars known as Alpha Centauri AB.

During the first half of 2016 Proxima Centauri was regularly observed with the HARPS spectrograph on the ESO 3.6-metre telescope at La Silla in Chile and simultaneously monitored by other telescopes around the world [1]. This was the Pale Red Dot campaign, in which a team of astronomers led by Guillem Anglada-Escudé, from Queen Mary University of London, was looking for the tiny back and forth wobble of the star that would be caused by the gravitational pull of a possible orbiting planet [2].

Awesome and amazing news!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A earth like planet in the habital zone of our closes star!!!!!

When people don't believe in God they'll believe in anything.

I suggest you go to find out.

Now what the hell does a belief in a God invented by goat herders have to do with planets that orbit other stars?

The fact that there is a planet this close that is potentially earth like is surprising, and, as stated by an earlier poster, may mean that such planets are more common than thought.

 

[ScienceRocks]

Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star
Pale Red Dot campaign reveals Earth-mass world in orbit around Proxima Centauri
24 August 2016
Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star - Pale Red Dot campaign reveals Earth-mass world in orbit around Proxima Centauri

Astronomers using ESO telescopes and other facilities have found clear evidence of a planet orbiting the closest star to Earth, Proxima Centauri. The long-sought world, designated Proxima b, orbits its cool red parent star every 11 days and has a temperature suitable for liquid water to exist on its surface. This rocky world is a little more massive than the Earth and is the closest exoplanet to us — and it may also be the closest possible abode for life outside the Solar System. A paper describing this milestone finding will be published in the journal Nature on 25 August 2016.

Just over four light-years from the Solar System lies a red dwarf star that has been named Proxima Centauri as it is the closest star to Earth apart from the Sun. This cool star in the constellation of Centaurus is too faint to be seen with the unaided eye and lies near to the much brighter pair of stars known as Alpha Centauri AB.

During the first half of 2016 Proxima Centauri was regularly observed with the HARPS spectrograph on the ESO 3.6-metre telescope at La Silla in Chile and simultaneously monitored by other telescopes around the world [1]. This was the Pale Red Dot campaign, in which a team of astronomers led by Guillem Anglada-Escudé, from Queen Mary University of London, was looking for the tiny back and forth wobble of the star that would be caused by the gravitational pull of a possible orbiting planet [2].

Awesome and amazing news!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A earth like planet in the habital zone of our closes star!!!!!

When people don't believe in God they'll believe in anything.

I suggest you go to find out.

Now what the hell does a belief in a God invented by goat herders have to do with planets that orbit other stars?

The fact that there is a planet this close that is potentially earth like is surprising, and, as stated by an earlier poster, may mean that such planets are more common than thought.

We have quite a few within 40 light years! Proxima Centauri b, Wolf 1061c, Gliese 832 c, Gliese 682 c, Gliese 667 Cc, Gliese 163 c, TRAPPIST-1c, TRAPPIST-1d.

You know Old rocks what's funny about such people? Is the fact that their god gave us a brain, the skills to figure out his universe and the wanting to do so. Yet, this poster thinks god is so small that he wouldn't want us to explore his universe? lol Somehow in his mind praising the lord suppose to mean a life of a goat herder.

 

[Weatherman2020]

Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star
Pale Red Dot campaign reveals Earth-mass world in orbit around Proxima Centauri
24 August 2016
Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star - Pale Red Dot campaign reveals Earth-mass world in orbit around Proxima Centauri

Astronomers using ESO telescopes and other facilities have found clear evidence of a planet orbiting the closest star to Earth, Proxima Centauri. The long-sought world, designated Proxima b, orbits its cool red parent star every 11 days and has a temperature suitable for liquid water to exist on its surface. This rocky world is a little more massive than the Earth and is the closest exoplanet to us — and it may also be the closest possible abode for life outside the Solar System. A paper describing this milestone finding will be published in the journal Nature on 25 August 2016.

Just over four light-years from the Solar System lies a red dwarf star that has been named Proxima Centauri as it is the closest star to Earth apart from the Sun. This cool star in the constellation of Centaurus is too faint to be seen with the unaided eye and lies near to the much brighter pair of stars known as Alpha Centauri AB.

During the first half of 2016 Proxima Centauri was regularly observed with the HARPS spectrograph on the ESO 3.6-metre telescope at La Silla in Chile and simultaneously monitored by other telescopes around the world [1]. This was the Pale Red Dot campaign, in which a team of astronomers led by Guillem Anglada-Escudé, from Queen Mary University of London, was looking for the tiny back and forth wobble of the star that would be caused by the gravitational pull of a possible orbiting planet [2].

Awesome and amazing news!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A earth like planet in the habital zone of our closes star!!!!!

When people don't believe in God they'll believe in anything.

I suggest you go to find out.

Now what the hell does a belief in a God invented by goat herders have to do with planets that orbit other stars?

The fact that there is a planet this close that is potentially earth like is surprising, and, as stated by an earlier poster, may mean that such planets are more common than thought.

Typical progressive. Considers goat herders beneath him.

It's a meaningless fund raising ploy, just like when NASA declared they found life from Mars. There is nothing anything further that can be done other than say yes, it's circling that star.

 

[Old Rocks]

LOL Yes, there is much more to do. First, send our machines there. Then go there ourselves. A whole universe out there to explore.

 

[LuckyDuck]

Now we need to gather as many geniuses from all nations and that are interested in space exploration and together and perhaps they can work out a way to create a craft that can take humans to the planet (following a probe that will do an initial scan).

 

[LuckyDuck]

I'd volunteer to head for the new planet if they could get us there in a rapid period of time. Gotta get away from this looney Islam somehow.