CammiStar said:I am going to go watch this now. Its been at least a few months since I have.
ViruSphere said:This doesn't surprise me. The universe is massive. So massive the human mind cannot comprehend just how big the universe is. I think it's incredibly naive to think that tiny Earth is the only planet in the universe that can hold life.
Population
None. Although you might see people from time to time, they are most likely products of your imagination. Simple mathematics tells us that the population of the Universe must be zero. Why? Well given that the volume of the universe is infinite there must be an infinite number of worlds. But not all of them are populated; therefore only a finite number are. Any finite number divided by infinity is as close to zero as makes no odds, therefore we can round the average population of the Universe to zero, and so the total population must be zero.
JoleneJolene said:I always think these are funny. They have been finding "earth like" planets for years and it's based off of watching the flicker. By watching how a tiny light flickers they can guess it's proximity to it's sun and assume it's atmosphere and landscape. not to mention the light we are watching flicker could be from a planet that exploded or died thousands of years ago.
Mind Blowing isn't it?
Jupiter551 said:JoleneJolene said:I always think these are funny. They have been finding "earth like" planets for years and it's based off of watching the flicker. By watching how a tiny light flickers they can guess it's proximity to it's sun and assume it's atmosphere and landscape. not to mention the light we are watching flicker could be from a planet that exploded or died thousands of years ago.
Mind Blowing isn't it?
Yeah not to mention that 600 light years is so ridiculously far away that it would never matter what they found or believed was there because there's more chance of finding aliens under your house than finding some way to reach a destination like that (btw that particular planet is still in existence as of at least 600 years ago )
Sweet, so if we send a probe now then in 4000 years or so we'll discover what's there (assuming anyone remembered to notify future-nasa about the probe!) and can formulate a response of some kind to reach the planet in a round trip of about 8050 years! woohoo!Shaun__ said:Using ion propulsion on a probe up to current levels of technology you can get up to 10,000 miles per hour after accelerating for 20 months. That means you would reach the planet in a little over 4,026,371 years.
Jupiter551 said:Sweet, so if we send a probe now then in 4000 years or so we'll discover what's there (assuming anyone remembered to notify future-nasa about the probe!) and can formulate a response of some kind to reach the planet in a round trip of about 8050 years! woohoo!Shaun__ said:Using ion propulsion on a probe up to current levels of technology you can get up to 10,000 miles per hour after accelerating for 20 months. That means you would reach the planet in a little over 4,026,371 years.