Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star

[Divine Wind]

the iss was mostly build by the USA and payed bythe USA, thanks spaceshutle

Thanks space shuttle - it last flew 21JUL11, over 5 years ago.

 

[hauke]

im not a atheist, i belive in god

 

[hauke]

that was the last time the iss got an adition, i crie for you space shuttle

 

[hauke]

we shouöld build heavy metal extraction in the asteroid belt
we should build h2 and o2 extraction in saturns belt

we should build human life in the asteroid belt

 

[hauke]

going to space would only cost about 100 trillion dollars

and about 500 trillion of that would go back into the economy

 

[hauke]

cut military by 50% and the usa military is still the most powerfull in the world
put the money into space and the usa economyy will explode

everyone will be rich

 

[CrusaderFrank]

We use anti-matter that can get up to 20% of the speed of light, build a ship that can support 3-5 people with shielding strong enough to take the beating.

Project Valkyrie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

What about the dilithium crystals?

 

[CrusaderFrank]

going to space would only cost about 100 trillion dollars

and about 500 trillion of that would go back into the economy

Um, yeah.

 

[hauke]

if you cut military without using the money on gouvernement spending, like infrastructure or space your economy is going to implode

you need to spend that money

theres just better stuff then weapons

 

[hauke]

because the usa got better weapons and more then any one else

 

[hauke]

buy the f 35

 

[hauke]

and buy a hypersonic anti ship missile

#replace harpoon with a mach 5 missile

even the most current model is 20 years old

its obsolete

 

[hauke]

and wtf did you destroy your stealth missiles ?

AGM-129 ACM
AGM-129 ACM

 

[hauke]

somebody please built a interstelar colony ship before we destroy ourselfs on earth

 

[ScienceRocks]

somebody please built a interstelar colony ship before we destroy ourselfs on earth

I think the best use of our energy is to find out if this planet has 1. atmosphere and 2. is habitable....Once we do then we have a real reason to build a real ship to move some of our population to it. I doubt at this time we could build such a ship without a real mission and get the resources to do it.

 

[Divine Wind]

Not exactly the USS Enterprise's 5 year mission, but still interesting:

Asteroid probe begins seven-year quest - BBC News

Asteroid probe begins seven-year quest

Nasa launches its Osirex-Rex probe, which will try to grab a sample of rock from an asteroid and return it to Earth.

 

[sealybobo]

somebody please built a interstelar colony ship before we destroy ourselfs on earth

I think the best use of our energy is to find out if this planet has 1. atmosphere and 2. is habitable....Once we do then we have a real reason to build a real ship to move some of our population to it. I doubt at this time we could build such a ship without a real mission and get the resources to do it.

Maybe if we learned how to cryogenically freeze humans for the 78,000 year trip. That would be one way. That's how long it will take unless we can figure out warp speed. So what's your rush?

Or, instead of worrying about how long it takes to get to another prison/planet, why not build a ship the size of a planet? We have all the resources in the meteor belt and Mars. We know how the earth works we can reproduce that. Water, ecosystem, a core, tatonic shifting. We know how planets formed put one together with an engine to puts along. God put that meteor and asteroid belt out there for a reason.

Maybe the shield we have around this planet size ship is 15 feet of plastic to protect us and we just ride the gravity wave from Star to star

 

[Divine Wind]

....
Or, instead of worrying about how long it takes to get to another prison/planet, why not build a ship the size of a planet? We have all the resources in the meteor belt and Mars.....

We're sitting on a huge rock and have another large rock orbiting us. The problem is more than resources, it's energy. Once we crack the fusion problem, or develop some equally unlimited energy source, we will be able to put those resources to work for us.

The lofty ideas of turning all of our missiles into rockets and all of our guns into butter are nice, but goes against human nature. Even if we laid all of our weapons down like the flower children want us to do, we'd still have assholes like Kim Jong-un and groups like Daesh to defend ourselves against.

FWIW, only fucking morons say the only reason we were attacked on 9/11 was because 1) we support Israel or 2) because we're in the ME. They don't get that some people are assholes and will use any excuse to spread their shit.

 

[TooTall]

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!!!!!

Hopefully, if there are people there, they poll those under 45.

 

[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!!!!!

Hopefully, if there are people there, they poll those under 45.

lol, mindless post by what this country is becoming. One that is anti-science and anti-thought. Considering getting the fuck out if Trump really attempts to take us back to the 19th century.