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

[Tenchi Ryu]

We need to pull up on them nikkas before they pull up on us.

Who says they haven't

 

[Neuromancer]

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.

I agree with the wormholes thinking. We'd need to learn to bend space in that way and still there'd be an issue of possible wormhole radiation.

 

[Lord_nikon]

I love this type of shyt, but the only proof they have looks like a mathematical equations I bet. we will never see or visit that shyt in our life time.
I'm more interested when that start sending probes to europa and titan, something that we could see in our life time.

 

[dennis roadman]

I bet their Ether Day parties are

 

[Cowboyz89]

so there's still no life?

Religion and believers still taking no loses .

Religion has been destroying this planet since day 1.
I hope we dont find any other habitable planets or life forms until we get rid of it

 

[Poetical Poltergeist]

We live on an almost perfect speck of dust.

 

[A1aaa]

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.

facts

it's obvious some folks in here never took physics

 

[Brock Landers]

Sad thing is I think the human race will be long gone before we get a chance to get there

 

[Worthless Loser]

This is good to know, but for some reason I don't think we were meant to find life on another planet. It just feels like the way the planets were aligned, they were arranged so that life stays separate from other life.

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

This is good to know, but for some reason I don't think we were meant to find life on another planet. It just feels like the way the planets were aligned, they were arranged so that life stays separate from other life.

Not only that... 2 things.

1. We keep talking about terraforming another planet when we can't even take care of our own planet
2. Even if we can travel and near the speed of light... how would you slow a ship going that fast down

 

[4fossa]

negged for gay-ass 'this is a big deal' in title

 

[hustlemania]

at people believing this made-up sh!t..

this "planet"(before the quickly changed the name 2 days ago to B), is the name of the planet they were going to in Event Horizon..

 

[KRiLL (+)]

This planet orbits a dwarf star which means that star was once the size of our Sun or larger. Life probably went extinct before the earth even formed. If there was ever life there in the first place. If they were an intelligent life form they probably found another nearby planet. Oh wait

dap + rep

 

[semtex]

They got pawgs?

 

[ORDER_66]

We're still never gonnna reach it. Its far as fukk.

Nasa was working on a warp drive... I dont know if they made any major breakthroughs on that field yet... They also have been working on an EM drive: Electrical energy into thrust without a propellant.