7 new planets discovered; may be like Earth

[Moonlight]

The fastest thing that's ever been built is the New Horizons space probe which is currently on its way to Pluto, it can travel about 36000 mph, at that speed it would take it about 750,000 earth years to get to these planets, it puts current technology beyond the scope of travelling to the stars me thinks.
An FTL spacecraft is a pipe dream thought up by some hare-brained scientist with too much time on his hands, by the time anyone could work out how to build one of these things the human race will either be dead or they'll be back in the trees where they belong.

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by Moonlight

The fastest thing that's ever been built is the New Horizons space probe which is currently on its way to Pluto, it can travel about 36000 mph, at that speed it would take it about 750,000 earth years to get to these planets, it puts current technology beyond the scope of travelling to the stars me thinks.
An FTL spacecraft is a pipe dream thought up by some hare-brained scientist with too much time on his hands, by the time anyone could work out how to build one of these things the human race will either be dead or they'll be back in the trees where they belong.

Warp factor 7 Mr. Sulu.

[mapuc]

It was fascinating news. Some questions popped up in my head when I read and heard about this discovery

1. Is there life on one or more of these planets ?

2. If yes to number one, what kind of life could it be ?

3. If there is life, is it seen from earthly point of view, intelligent ?

4. If intelligent, how far have they come ? (I know the time it takes for the light to reach us)

Markus

[Commander Wallace]

Originally Posted by mapuc

It was fascinating news. Some questions popped up in my head when I read and heard about this discovery

1. Is there life on one or more of these planets ?

2. If yes to number one, what kind of life could it be ?

3. If there is life, is it seen from earthly point of view, intelligent ?

4. If intelligent, how far have they come ? (I know the time it takes for the light to reach us)

Markus

Of course there is intelligent life on them. Spock, Yoda, Chewbacca and the Ewoks came from somewhere, right ?


Seriously, I would think life exists elsewhere in the universe.

[nikimcbee]

Originally Posted by mapuc

It was fascinating news. Some questions popped up in my head when I read and heard about this discovery

1. Is there life on one or more of these planets ?

2. If yes to number one, what kind of life could it be ?

3. If there is life, is it seen from earthly point of view, intelligent ?

4. If intelligent, how far have they come ? (I know the time it takes for the light to reach us)

Markus

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by nikimcbee

(Someone should really get those guys standing by the massive death laser blast a railing or something...talk about non-OSHE compliant)

[dsawan]

They might harbor hostiles. Could be nomads wanting to sterilize us. from the nomad probe episode of star trek tos. or the khan noonian singhs.

[Kaptlt.Endrass]

ALIENS!

Let's be honest, I doubt that any sentient life out there, if it has the capability to get a spaceship in the air and to another planet light-years away, then I'm sure they've reached a point in society where it isn't 'KILL EVERYTHING!'

Who knows, maybe they have their own version of Subsim?

Of course, with our luck, we'd be visited by an extremely intelligent race that has never warred with one another, and they'd come see us and bang their heads on the nearest hard object.

[ikalugin]

Originally Posted by Moonlight

The fastest thing that's ever been built is the New Horizons space probe which is currently on its way to Pluto, it can travel about 36000 mph, at that speed it would take it about 750,000 earth years to get to these planets, it puts current technology beyond the scope of travelling to the stars me thinks.
An FTL spacecraft is a pipe dream thought up by some hare-brained scientist with too much time on his hands, by the time anyone could work out how to build one of these things the human race will either be dead or they'll be back in the trees where they belong.

With high ISP drives it is possible to make generation ships. "36000 mph" is a useless figure, what you want to know is the delta-v stored onboard.