Planetary Systems Around Binaries
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ShawnDriscoll
Cosmic Mongoose
Finding planets is easy now. So far, none of them are close to being Earth-like.
far-trader
Mongoose
ShawnDriscoll said:
Finding large planets is easy now. Not surprisingly, none of them are close to being Earth-like.
ShawnDriscoll
Cosmic Mongoose
Large planets are easier to find. But the little ones are just easy. The little ones are too close to their stars so far.
far-trader
Mongoose
ShawnDriscoll said:
Non-sequitur aside, we've only been finding the small ones (close to Earth size and smaller) in the last year or so. Certainly we'll find more if we keep looking. How terrestrial they turn out to be will be interesting, either way.
Interesting times to be living in for sure
ShawnDriscoll
Cosmic Mongoose
Better equipment will find us even more stuff out there. If only it was in our time, and not in the past. But light is slow.
far-trader
Mongoose
ShawnDriscoll said:
:lol:
Good point... but even so light is fast enough
The planets discovered that are likely to matter will be within a hundred light years or so. And a hundred years is less than an eyeblink on planetary evolution scale. Anything much beyond that we have no real hope of communicating with any advanced life should it exist, nor any real likelihood of sending physical followup missions, unless we discover some FTL means of travel, in which case all this Earth based astronomy becomes pretty useless.
The real slow bit will be doing anything concrete with the data found since we're limited to very (to a silly power) slow rocket travel to get there.
lastbesthope
Mongoose
far-trader said:ShawnDriscoll said:
Finding large planets is easy now. Not surprisingly, none of them are close to being Earth-like.
Finding what we think are planets is easy. Could be alien billboards in orbit of distant stars messing with our heads
LBH
Captain Jonah
Mongoose
Getting there is easy. We just need to find that wrecked alien ship floating out by the Sheppard’s and reverse engineer that using the handy translation programs they developed to translate our language to theirs while they were monitoring us :wink:
far-trader
Mongoose
lastbesthope said:Finding what we think are planets is easy. Could be alien billboards in orbit of distant stars messing with our heads
LBH
:lol:
So if thats the case why not check on Pluto, its "moons" and Xena or whatever they've renamed it now?
I still wonder why they overruled naming that planetoid Xena, after all i thought whoever found it gets to name it?!
And what about that death star lookalike that orbits one of the outer planets?
The one that looks like it can be unscrewed open along its centre?
I still wonder why they overruled naming that planetoid Xena, after all i thought whoever found it gets to name it?!
And what about that death star lookalike that orbits one of the outer planets?
The one that looks like it can be unscrewed open along its centre?
Captain Jonah
Mongoose
Chumbly said:
Like the Aslan.
Besides which. Who cares what a bunch of uppity aliens think. Count the worlds, count the systems, count the warfleets. The winner rights the history, the side with the most fleets wins. Therefore :twisted:
AndrewW
Emperor Mongoose
Hopeless said:So if thats the case why not check on Pluto, its "moons" and Xena or whatever they've renamed it now?
I still wonder why they overruled naming that planetoid Xena, after all i thought whoever found it gets to name it?!
And what about that death star lookalike that orbits one of the outer planets?
The one that looks like it can be unscrewed open along its centre?
Mimas? Didn't George Lucas name that one?
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