Earth-like planet discovered around next closest star to Solar System. THIS IS A BIG DEAL

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

"Proxima b is a mere 4.2 light-years away from our solar system, or 266,000 times the distance between the Earth and the sun, which are 92.96 million miles apart."

That shyt far as fukk.

4 years away.... at the speed of light brehs

I'm literally right now

This is like having cancer and finding out there will be a cure for it in 400 years.

 

[Malta]

"Proxima b is a mere 4.2 light-years away from our solar system, or 266,000 times the distance between the Earth and the sun, which are 92.96 million miles apart."

That shyt far as fukk.

shyt is comedy, with current technology it would take about 90,000 years to get there with the fastest ships

 

[FaTaL]

Zeta 2 reticuli should be the target


That's where the real answers are

 

[Malta]

4 years away.... at the speed of light brehs

I'm literally right now

This is like having cancer and finding out there will be a cure for it in 400 years.

If they just said it in simple terms nobody would give a fukk.

Fastest man made spacecraft = Juno - 25 miles per second
Light - 186,000 miles per second

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

if we could find a way to go 1/10th the speed of light then we could send something there in 42 years.

The fastest we have ever got is 1/18,000th the speed of light.................... so we have some way to go.

I am thinking it will take some kind of nuclear power to get close. Relativistic travel is

 

[Neuromancer]

The fastest we have ever got is 1/18,000th the speed of light.................... so we have some way to go.

I am thinking it will take some kind of nuclear power to get close. Relativistic travel is

Could something like that even be manned? Would reaching relavistic speed atomize a human being?

 

[www.THUG.com]

So, who gonna pen the prequel or addendum to the Bible and Quran

 

[AyBrehHam Linkin]

Consider how far a light year is .

You turn on the lights in a fat ass stadium at night and it's instantly illuminated. Light travels at 186,282 miles per second

Now imagine something so far away it takes light a fukking YEAR to reach it.

 

[Neuromancer]

So, who gonna pen the prequel or addendum to the Bible and Quran

nikkas gonna have to add, "God never said there wasn't life anywhere else."

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

Could something like that even be manned? Would reaching relavistic speed atomize a human being?

There are a lot of challenges.........

For starters.... the materials needed would be pretty crazy. Imagine hitting space debris at 67 million MPH (1/10th the speed of light)

Then there are fundamental challenges... the closer you get to the speed of light, the heavier you are. So the closer we get to it, the more energy is needed. There's other weird shyt that goes on too, like how the closer you get to the speed of light the faster time outside of the spaceship runs. So if you are on the ship for 40 years 80 years might go by back on Earth.

shyt is fascinating Realistically I think space travel in light years will happen once we can figure out how to make wormholes. Cause conventionally the shyt's just not clicking.

 

[luckyse7enz]

How long would it take the space shuttle to go one light-year? The shuttle orbits the Earth at about 5 miles per second (18,000 mph). Light travels at 186,000 miles per second, which is about 37,200 times faster than the shuttle. So the shuttle would need about 37,200 years to go one light-year.

4.2 light years away so....

37,2000 x 4.2= 156,240 years

Better start eating your vegetables and doubling up on your fish oil, brehs.

 

[feelosofer]

So all we have to do is master Faster Than Light speed travel, cryogenic freezing and how to produce food at a molecular level. Simple.

 

[KravenMorehead™]

Nah I wasn't dissing I just couldn't tell if it was sarcasm or straight up cause it was deadpan

 

[WaveCapsByOscorp™]

Nah I wasn't dissing I just couldn't tell if it was sarcasm or straight up cause it was deadpan

i know, it just sounded like something i would say if someone told me something i said was profound. i'd be like "well, maybe..."

 

[Jax]

We don't need planets. We just need a mega ship the size of Texas. Then do a lottery to see who gets in.