None of you smelly monkeys are welcome; keep your filthy paws off my home.
How cool would be to have radio communications with similarly tech-evolved aliens.
Edt: could
cant wait to see alien brainrot
Sadly, special relativity says no.
not with that attitude!
Yeah yeah everyone thinks they’re special.
There are a few speculative ideas on faster than light travel. Such as worm holes, quantum tunneling, and super fluid vacuum theories.
Are they real in the sense that we can know how they can work today? Nope. But lots of ideas we take for granted today were “impossible” not that long ago. The fact that real physicists are even thinking about those possibilities could lead to something in the future.
Very could!
That would be like so could man.
Could could could no scout no scout no scout
Friggin Gen Z-er, get off my lawn!!! shakes fist from the porch
I think that’s a drone you’re shaking your fist at.
👀
If we could accelerate at a constant 1g, flip, and decelerate at a constant 1g, the trip would take ~152 years… from Earth’s perspective. If you were onboard, time dilation would make the trip about 10 years.
Do you mean “c” instead of “g”? I don’t think there are a lot of “g” in interplanetary travel.
I mean ‘g’. 1g is 9.81m/s^2. c is a speed, not an acceleration. g is acceleration.
Not coincidentally, it’s the acceleration you experience from Earth’s gravity, but it doesn’t have to come from gravity. Astronauts routinely experience 3gs during takeoff from their rocket boosters.
If you were in a rocket that accelerated at a constant 1g it would feel like Earth’s gravity, even in space. We don’t have any rockets capable of producing 1g for years.
I understand now, thanks.
No, g is a measure of acceleration equal to Earth’s gravitational pull at the surface of earth (approx 9.8 meters per second per second). ‘c’ is the speed of light, you can’t accelerate with a speed.
Ok, thanks for the clarification, I clearly misunderstood “g” and how it was used.
1g! We have like 6g now!
C’mon billionaires! This is your chance to create a totally unique planet! Get onboard an X rocket and fly your teslas out there! We are all counting on you my friends! All of you! We will need the chip guys, the real estate and building tycoons, the medicine billionaires and everyone in between, all you must go!
Friday night HD 137010 b run boys, who is in?
Vince McMahon is a rich snob
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Can we trick a few billionaires into going there
Not without condemning their personal staff to a living hell
They can quit
Yeah but then the billionaires wouldn’t go. We can’t trick them into going without them taking a bunch of working class people to torture.
Just convince them that AI can handle it. Shouldn’t be too hard these days.
They want the power over others. At the very least they’ll want harems. My point here is there are more, ahem, local solutions to our inequality problem that don’t involve letting the oligarchs just fuck off.
Let’s tell them they’re next
Our two guaranteed inhabitable worlds are in alpha centauri and sirius
How neat, its name even comes in High Definition!
Yess, that is how capitalism will work.
Alright, Jimbo, let’s see its atmospheric composition. Does it have a gas giant in its system?
No, your mother is in the kitchen.
Unfortunately it is technically in New Jersey.
I’m gonna eat that planet
And 50% not
Well. This is quite a pearl.
I don’t have time to read a 16-page paper in detail, but I did want to know how the host star compares to everyone’s favourite local solitary K-type dwarf, Epsilon Eridani. It’s slightly less massive (~0.7 solar mass versus 0.8 for ε Eri) and quite a bit less bright (difference of about 0.1 solar luminosity), but I especially wanted to know about the age of the star. ε Eri is quite young and frothy, but the investigators here infer from the star’s motion that it belongs to the thin disk, up to a whopping 10 billion years old.
So we are definitely not talking about an ε Eri-type system. So that should be mean no dust disks, no crazy activity from the star, and no newish planets still carving out their places through the system.
You’ve really got to wonder about such an old planet, however cold and quiescent it may be. The potential paths for climatic evolution on such a world boggle the mind, however cold it is. You could get an episodically or formerly active world like Mars, a beautifully unstable oscillatory world like Earth, or something completely different. Assuming any atmosphere, of course (safe assumption?). And that’s without considering whether there are any other planets in the system.
I really wouldn’t spend too much time thinking about this candidate detection, as we have literally seen just the one transit, and we will need to observe this fellow for a while to confirm the discovery, learn about other planets in the system, and so on. The investigators themselves note that the transit was shallow (meaning difficult to detect), but the good news is that the host star is fairly bright, well within reach of amateur equipment. I wonder if citizen scientists will be able to follow the transits.
Exciting times.
quite young and frothy
haha, y-yes
That would be us
*they
