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Taryn Passed away. Thanks for being a part of us, even if it wasn't always on the best of terms. 1987-2014 Level: 204      Posts: 9562/14742 EXP: 121745542 For next: 1604276 Since: 09-01-09 From: Seattle Since last post: 10.1 years Last activity: 9.8 years
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| The picture makes the planet look like it has trees. Only right around the edges though.
"highest average temperature is about -12 degrees Celcius" / "one side is blazing hot and the other freezing cold" -> Be near the vertical equator or else Would like to hear more on this when available. ____________________ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Posts = 2916 Age = 1165 Lv 83 Exp 5375206 / 5432221 LvExp 165979 / 222994 (74.4%) PostExp = 2765 ExpTime = 37.461 |
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| I'm not feeling confident that they've found intelligent life, but I hope their results go with their claims that life is abound there! It'd be interesting to see just what's there for life.
Unfortunately, it'd be about a half of a lifetime to go there and back and report on it though. =/ ____________________ |
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| I'd like to know what the atmosphere looks like on this planet.
If it is continuously heated from one side, and heat is continuously lost from the other, I don't think much life would exist outside the belt between the two zones where the temperature would be at a tolerable level. This planet is very different from the earth! |
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Originally posted by Terra While we don't have the ability to get our space craft up to the speed of light yet (or faster, for that matter), one thing they could do is install a communications array on this planet (or a nearby moon, if it's too hostile to set up a base camp) and send radio messages back to Earth. Radio waves travel at nearly the speed of light which would cut down on time needed for research data to return to Earth. I don't see that happening within the next century though. ____________________
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Originally posted by Terra Well I was thinking that if we could go as fast as light someday. Kinda left that part out. Whoops. ____________________ |
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10-01-10 06:23:48 PM Post #3684 This article probably could make more effort than it does to point out that that isn't a real photo and that while travelling at light speed would get you there in 20 years, our technology isn't nearly that fast.
Definitely a cool find... they just probably want to draw more attention to the real timescales involved. If we launched it today, in significantly more than 20 years, we could land a transmitter on this planet, and 20 years after its landing, we'd start receiving its broadcast. Barring some major breakthroughs in space travel and/or longevity, our generation probably won't see anything from this discovery.
Of course that just means we should all start researching faster (even FTL) travel, medical science so we can live long enough to see the results, and/or more powerful telescopes so we can at least see it from here.  ____________________ ![[loading witty comment...]](http://twitstamp.com/custom-2013.png "this is about the only use for Twitter") |
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