Probes to alpha Centauri

[sealybobo]

I was hoping this was a soft porn thread, what with that title...

I'm really interested in this stuff. I think there's life on or i should say in Europa. That's in our solar system. I think we are smart enough to figure out where we can go elsewhere to live and how to get there. And I think it's interesting that there's probably more moons with life on them then planets. Or that we have these nano bot spacechips that can get to other stars in 20 years. That's fascinating. So go make your yuck yuck on the yuck yuck boards. Do you ever say anything serious?

 

[sealybobo]

A new project started by millionaire Yuri Milner and backed by Mark Zuckerberg and Professor Steven Hawking is preparing to send probes to Alpha Centauri. (the nearest star).
The probes will be no bigger than mobile phones and driven by a light powered sail. It will take them 20 years to arrive.


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Damn thing is 4.24 light-years away. Which means, of course, even if it were to reach its intended destination it would take at bare minimum 5 years simply to read the signal. So, 20 years to arrive and 5 additional years to receive the signal, .... yeah, I don't care.

12 year olds do old man.

 

[Publius1787]

A new project started by millionaire Yuri Milner and backed by Mark Zuckerberg and Professor Steven Hawking is preparing to send probes to Alpha Centauri. (the nearest star).
The probes will be no bigger than mobile phones and driven by a light powered sail. It will take them 20 years to arrive.


.View attachment 71071

Damn thing is 4.24 light-years away. Which means, of course, even if it were to reach its intended destination it would take at bare minimum 5 years simply to read the signal. So, 20 years to arrive and 5 additional years to receive the signal, .... yeah, I don't care.

12 year olds do old man.

Your Google search habits are none of my concern.

 

[sealybobo]

A new project started by millionaire Yuri Milner and backed by Mark Zuckerberg and Professor Steven Hawking is preparing to send probes to Alpha Centauri. (the nearest star).
The probes will be no bigger than mobile phones and driven by a light powered sail. It will take them 20 years to arrive.


.View attachment 71071

Damn thing is 4.24 light-years away. Which means, of course, even if it were to reach its intended destination it would take at bare minimum 5 years simply to read the signal. So, 20 years to arrive and 5 additional years to receive the signal, .... yeah, I don't care.

12 year olds do old man.

Your Google search habits are none of my concern.

I'm excited for mankind. Do you really not care about the human race in 100 or 1000 years? I do.

 

[TheOldSchool]

This would be the single greatest achievement in the history of humankind. But I doubt it will happen anytime within the next 100 years.

 

[sealybobo]

This would be the single greatest achievement in the history of humankind. But I doubt it will happen anytime within the next 100 years.

Stephen Hawking disagrees with you. But who is he right?

20 years we launch 20 years we arrive 5 years the signal comes back.

The best part is each spacechip costs as much as an iPhone. Hell I'd buy one. But that star and every planet and moon is my families. 1000 years from now maybe that will be the greatest thing I ever paid for.

 

[TheOldSchool]

This would be the single greatest achievement in the history of humankind. But I doubt it will happen anytime within the next 100 years.

Stephen Hawking disagrees with you. But who is he right?

20 years we launch 20 years we arrive 5 years the signal comes back.

The best part is each spacechip costs as much as an iPhone. Hell I'd buy one. But that star and every planet and moon is my families. 1000 years from now maybe that will be the greatest thing I ever paid for.

Hey if we get a signal back from a probe we sent that reaches Alpha Centauri sometime in the next 100 years, PM me your info and I'll send you $1000.

 

[sealybobo]

This would be the single greatest achievement in the history of humankind. But I doubt it will happen anytime within the next 100 years.

I doubt people in the 90's would believe everything we have today. We truly are on a technicological boom right now and we still keep saying "what will they think of next.

Nono technology is something we didn't know about in the 90s. That was 20 years ago. Now imagine what we will know 100 years from now. We've only just begun

 

[TheOldSchool]

This would be the single greatest achievement in the history of humankind. But I doubt it will happen anytime within the next 100 years.

I doubt people in the 90's would believe everything we have today. We truly are on a technicological boom right now and we still keep saying "what will they think of next.

Nono technology is something we didn't know about in the 90s. That was 20 years ago. Now imagine what we will know 100 years from now. We've only just begun

Hey people in the 80's thought we'd all have hoverboards by now. Where the hell are our hoverboards???

 

[sealybobo]

This would be the single greatest achievement in the history of humankind. But I doubt it will happen anytime within the next 100 years.

Stephen Hawking disagrees with you. But who is he right?

20 years we launch 20 years we arrive 5 years the signal comes back.

The best part is each spacechip costs as much as an iPhone. Hell I'd buy one. But that star and every planet and moon is my families. 1000 years from now maybe that will be the greatest thing I ever paid for.

Hey if we get a signal back from a probe we sent that reaches Alpha Centauri sometime in the next 100 years, PM me your info and I'll send you $1000.

I notice liberals are more interested in real goals like the human race living forever and conservatives only care about what happens to them here and now and after they die. One seems selfish

 

[Publius1787]

A new project started by millionaire Yuri Milner and backed by Mark Zuckerberg and Professor Steven Hawking is preparing to send probes to Alpha Centauri. (the nearest star).
The probes will be no bigger than mobile phones and driven by a light powered sail. It will take them 20 years to arrive.


.View attachment 71071

Damn thing is 4.24 light-years away. Which means, of course, even if it were to reach its intended destination it would take at bare minimum 5 years simply to read the signal. So, 20 years to arrive and 5 additional years to receive the signal, .... yeah, I don't care.

12 year olds do old man.

Your Google search habits are none of my concern.

I'm excited for mankind. Do you really not care about the human race in 100 or 1000 years? I do.

I don't believe the human race will be progressing very much within the next 100 years. All of the indicators point to moral decay which strips the elements that make such achievements possible.

 

[sealybobo]

This would be the single greatest achievement in the history of humankind. But I doubt it will happen anytime within the next 100 years.

I doubt people in the 90's would believe everything we have today. We truly are on a technicological boom right now and we still keep saying "what will they think of next.

Nono technology is something we didn't know about in the 90s. That was 20 years ago. Now imagine what we will know 100 years from now. We've only just begun

Hey people in the 80's thought we'd all have hoverboards by now. Where the hell are our hoverboards???

I knew you'd say that. I consider 2000-2010 a list decade. It was horrible for r&d unless you were a weapons manufacturer. If there was a military need for it Wed have hoverboards. Or if you give Tesla $1 billion maybe he can figure it out. One day Tesla said we would be able to harness the energy of the planet.

 

[Publius1787]

This would be the single greatest achievement in the history of humankind. But I doubt it will happen anytime within the next 100 years.

Stephen Hawking disagrees with you. But who is he right?

20 years we launch 20 years we arrive 5 years the signal comes back.

The best part is each spacechip costs as much as an iPhone. Hell I'd buy one. But that star and every planet and moon is my families. 1000 years from now maybe that will be the greatest thing I ever paid for.

Hey if we get a signal back from a probe we sent that reaches Alpha Centauri sometime in the next 100 years, PM me your info and I'll send you $1000.

I notice liberals are more interested in real goals like the human race living forever and conservatives only care about what happens to them here and now and after they die. One seems selfish

That must be why Obama gutted the shuttle program. Perhaps he thought Russia is our ticket to the future? face it, no president has been worse for NASA than Barack Obama. He's the anti Kennedy.

 

[TheOldSchool]

This would be the single greatest achievement in the history of humankind. But I doubt it will happen anytime within the next 100 years.

Stephen Hawking disagrees with you. But who is he right?

20 years we launch 20 years we arrive 5 years the signal comes back.

The best part is each spacechip costs as much as an iPhone. Hell I'd buy one. But that star and every planet and moon is my families. 1000 years from now maybe that will be the greatest thing I ever paid for.

Hey if we get a signal back from a probe we sent that reaches Alpha Centauri sometime in the next 100 years, PM me your info and I'll send you $1000.

I notice liberals are more interested in real goals like the human race living forever and conservatives only care about what happens to them here and now and after they die. One seems selfish

That must be why Obama gutted the shuttle program. Perhaps he thought Russia is our ticket to the future? face it, no president has been worse for NASA than Barack Obama. He's the anti Kennedy.

Yep Obama fucked NASA. I wish you'd said that as a matter of fact instead of jumping at the chance for a partisan dig. But a partisan is all you know how to be.

Anyways as much as Obama damaged NASA, the shuttle program was most certainly obsolete and ridiculously over budget and under-performing.

I think NASA is on the right track now, even though they're embarrassingly underfunded. We should be throwing as much money as we can at the Orion project.

 

[Publius1787]

This would be the single greatest achievement in the history of humankind. But I doubt it will happen anytime within the next 100 years.

Stephen Hawking disagrees with you. But who is he right?

20 years we launch 20 years we arrive 5 years the signal comes back.

The best part is each spacechip costs as much as an iPhone. Hell I'd buy one. But that star and every planet and moon is my families. 1000 years from now maybe that will be the greatest thing I ever paid for.

Hey if we get a signal back from a probe we sent that reaches Alpha Centauri sometime in the next 100 years, PM me your info and I'll send you $1000.

I notice liberals are more interested in real goals like the human race living forever and conservatives only care about what happens to them here and now and after they die. One seems selfish

That must be why Obama gutted the shuttle program. Perhaps he thought Russia is our ticket to the future? face it, no president has been worse for NASA than Barack Obama. He's the anti Kennedy.

Yep Obama fucked NASA. I wish you'd said that as a matter of fact instead of jumping at the chance for a partisan dig. But a partisan is all you know how to be.

Anyways as much as Obama damaged NASA, the shuttle program was most certainly obsolete and ridiculously over budget and under-performing.

I think NASA is on the right track now, even though they're embarrassingly underfunded. We should be throwing as much money as we can at the Orion project.

I was responding to a partisan statement. No doubt you hold the same criticism for the statement I'm responding to?

*EDIT* What Wha??!! Are you making an honest argument without all the name-calling!!?? I'm oddly proud of you.

 

[TheOldSchool]

Stephen Hawking disagrees with you. But who is he right?

20 years we launch 20 years we arrive 5 years the signal comes back.

The best part is each spacechip costs as much as an iPhone. Hell I'd buy one. But that star and every planet and moon is my families. 1000 years from now maybe that will be the greatest thing I ever paid for.

Hey if we get a signal back from a probe we sent that reaches Alpha Centauri sometime in the next 100 years, PM me your info and I'll send you $1000.

I notice liberals are more interested in real goals like the human race living forever and conservatives only care about what happens to them here and now and after they die. One seems selfish

That must be why Obama gutted the shuttle program. Perhaps he thought Russia is our ticket to the future? face it, no president has been worse for NASA than Barack Obama. He's the anti Kennedy.

Yep Obama fucked NASA. I wish you'd said that as a matter of fact instead of jumping at the chance for a partisan dig. But a partisan is all you know how to be.

Anyways as much as Obama damaged NASA, the shuttle program was most certainly obsolete and ridiculously over budget and under-performing.

I think NASA is on the right track now, even though they're embarrassingly underfunded. We should be throwing as much money as we can at the Orion project.

I was responding to a partisan statement. No doubt you hold the same criticism for the statement I'm responding to?

So was I.

 

[sealybobo]

A new project started by millionaire Yuri Milner and backed by Mark Zuckerberg and Professor Steven Hawking is preparing to send probes to Alpha Centauri. (the nearest star).
The probes will be no bigger than mobile phones and driven by a light powered sail. It will take them 20 years to arrive.


.View attachment 71071

Damn thing is 4.24 light-years away. Which means, of course, even if it were to reach its intended destination it would take at bare minimum 5 years simply to read the signal. So, 20 years to arrive and 5 additional years to receive the signal, .... yeah, I don't care.

12 year olds do old man.

Your Google search habits are none of my concern.

I'm excited for mankind. Do you really not care about the human race in 100 or 1000 years? I do.

I don't believe the human race will be progressing very much within the next 100 years. All of the indicators point to moral decay which strips the elements that make such achievements possible.

Carl sagen Neil degrass Tyson kestler and Stephen Hawking will continue despite your pessimistic attitude.

 

[baileyn45]

Don't know what all the fuss is about. I colonized it in 1999.
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Damn, and I already made vacation plans. Got an extra room next summer?

You can fit in a lap top?

Darn, hadn't thought of that part. I guess it's off to Glacier park like we had planned.

Hopefully in the summer...

Amen, was there in the fall many years ago. My comment to locals was, FALL?

 

[Publius1787]

Damn thing is 4.24 light-years away. Which means, of course, even if it were to reach its intended destination it would take at bare minimum 5 years simply to read the signal. So, 20 years to arrive and 5 additional years to receive the signal, .... yeah, I don't care.

12 year olds do old man.

Your Google search habits are none of my concern.

I'm excited for mankind. Do you really not care about the human race in 100 or 1000 years? I do.

I don't believe the human race will be progressing very much within the next 100 years. All of the indicators point to moral decay which strips the elements that make such achievements possible.

Carl sagen Neil degrass Tyson kestler and Stephen Hawking will continue despite your pessimistic attitude.

Neil Degrass is a nobody whose only claim to fame is that he is black astrophysics. If he weren't black no one would know his name as his contributions to cosmology and astrophysics are nominal at best. The hope for him was that he would inspire other blacks to get into the sciences. A great goal no doubt, but lets not get confused as to why he is famous. He's famous because they gave him a bunch of TV spots because of his skin color, not his contributions to astrophysics.

But I agree they will continue. The question is whether we will still have the political and cultural environment in the future that promotes progress. I'm betting we will not. I believe the indicators agree with me.

 

[baileyn45]

12 year olds do old man.

Your Google search habits are none of my concern.

I'm excited for mankind. Do you really not care about the human race in 100 or 1000 years? I do.

I don't believe the human race will be progressing very much within the next 100 years. All of the indicators point to moral decay which strips the elements that make such achievements possible.

Carl sagen Neil degrass Tyson kestler and Stephen Hawking will continue despite your pessimistic attitude.

Neil Degrass is a nobody whose only claim to fame is that he is black astrophysics. If he weren't black no one would know his name as his contributions to cosmology and astrophysics are nominal at best. The hope for him was that he would inspire other blacks to get into the sciences. A great goal no doubt, but lets not get confused as to why he is famous. He's famous because they gave him a bunch of TV spots because of his skin color, not his contributions to astrophysics.

But I agree they will continue. The question is whether we will still have the political and cultural environment in the future that promotes progress. I'm betting we will not.

I disagree, he's a very personable "ambassador" who does a very good job sharing with the masses. Kinda picked up after Sagan died,although I think Tyson is more easy to relate to.