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In case anyone hasn't heard, NASA just released this GOOD NEWS. A new planet has been found...within the HABITABLE ZONE, that is NOT UNLIKE EARTH IN SIZE AND TEMPERATURE and it is a mere FOUR LIGHT YEARS AWAY.
Yes, far away...but then again, using a fusion rocket it may be possible to get to speeds up to half the speed of light, meaning reaching this star would take only eight to ten years. In other words, while the media is focusing on Trump, Hillary and Burkinis, while people are whining about Mexicans next door and the UK leaving the EU, the media is skipping over one absurdly AWESOME story:
We may very well have a habitable, Earth-like world that if we made a commitment to we could explore within one human lifetime.
Holy $****
Honestly just....just....
If we actually play our cards right and get our acts together, some toddler alive today could very likely COLONIZE A PLANET OUTSIDE OF OUR STAR SYSTEM
It's doable. For the first time in the history of species, we may very well be able to find a new world. All we have to do is such up, but our silly arguments aside and start thinking as a species.
Every single one of us with any sense, be he or she a conservative, liberal or Libertarian, an believer or a non-believer, from every land and every language, all of us have spent at least some moments in our childhoods looking up at the starry sky and asking "what is up there?" Now, if we put the resources together and get the best of our species working on it, if we can all shut up and make a plan and work together there is now no reason why we can't do it and why we can't sooner than we thought possible. Not in a hundred years from now, but more like forty-five years we may be able to, if we actually tried, send a manned vessel on an twenty year mission to Proxima and back.
Why not? Why not try to unite our species to do something good for a change? After all, the urge to explore is in our DNA. From the moment we walked out of the primordial we have had an urge to explore and expand. How us have we humans covered the Earth like no other species? Maybe that's why we are at each other's throats over trivial matters: we are stir crazy and have no outlet for the collective wanderlust that is within us.
Maybe instead of wasting money on a thousand and one things that everyone admit are wastes, we could use that to fund such an endeavor? Maybe we could all put our national and personal pride aside and finally think like a species and do something good for a change.
Or maybe instead you'll just excuse me of being a troll and go back to whining about whatever candidate you all can't stand this election?
Here is the entire problem with limp wristed liberal snowflakes..... They worry about everyone else but themselves. They wish to determine everyone elses destiny for them.
We would be the Hostile alien species if life already exists on that planet plus we already know what our species is like why come back it is a one way trip we either work together to try and survive with no help coming anytime soon from Earth.
It is amazing to think of how vast the universe is. One article noted that if we were to send out a probe to this planet, it would take 77,000 years to arrive. This is a star 'close' to us.
before you get all excited about an earth type planet in the habitable zone, lets first look at a few things shall we?
1: it orbits a red dwarf star, at a rate of 11 days per orbit. that means most likely the planet is tidal locked to the star, which means that one side of the planet always faces the star, and the other is eternally night.
2: red dwarf stars have a nasty tendency to flare off x-ray radiation when it goes through its solar flare cycles.
3: just because the planet is in the habitable zone does not mean it is habitable. there might not be any water, no atmosphere, no magnetic field, or one not strong enough to ward off the x-ray bombardment.
Yea...it would be a bummer to spend ten years as a human popsicle, to find out your new home is not going to work out. As far as this uniting us, as a species...lmao. An extraterrestrial invasion of this rock is about all that could do that. And even that's iffy.
It is amazing to think of how vast the universe is. One article noted that if we were to send out a probe to this planet, it would take 77,000 years to arrive. This is a star 'close' to us.
Why? I won't live to see it probably but remember, on April 5, 2063 Zephram Cochrane will make the first Earth based warp flight and be noticed by a passing Vulcan survey ship. A ship from a world close to Earth which revolves around a red dwarf sun.
Well, if you're going to go there.......
Don't forget that The Robinson family already took off for that place back in August of 1999.
Because Dr Zachary Smith had stowed away, and the weight calculations were skewed, they went off course and got "Lost in Space".......
DANGER! DANGER! Will Robinson.
CN
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