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    Re: Earth-like planet discovered

    Well, the sooner we get there, the sooner we can pollute it.
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    Re: Earth-like planet discovered

    Quote Originally Posted by paintmered View Post
    NASA's site was very well-written and explained in fairly simple terms.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Johnny Footstool View Post
    NASA's site was very well-written and explained in fairly simple terms.
    Its a well done site with a very good explanation.

    NASA's stance is "everything we know about the universe right now says this is impossible" -- I figure, at best, we know as close to nothing about the universe as you can know without hitting straight 0. So, I still think there is still room to figure this out.
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    Re: Earth-like planet discovered

    Hawking's "A Brief History of Time" is also a great read.
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    Re: Earth-like planet discovered

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riley_Martin

    Friend Martin has already been there and done that.

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    Re: Earth-like planet discovered

    Anyone ever read about John Titor?

    I missed it while it was occurring, but it's interesting to read about...

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Titor

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    Quote Originally Posted by WilyMoROCKS View Post
    Anyone ever read about John Titor?

    I missed it while it was occurring, but it's interesting to read about...

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Titor
    I love reading about Titor. Such a brilliant hoax.

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    Re: Earth-like planet discovered

    Quote Originally Posted by Roy Tucker View Post
    Time travel and faster than light travel are joined at the physics hip. Current theory hypothesizes that worm holes can be used to do both. Implementation is an exercise left up to the student

    But a lot of very hairy and bleeding-edge math and physics are being argued by guys like Stephen Hawking as to whether or not this is even within light years of being theoretically possible.

    I like to keep up on this stuff (and things like string theory) just to satisfy a base curiousness but I barely understand it on a very cursory level and have a very amateur knowledge of it.
    Then please tell me why they call them worm holes. Are they slimy? Doesn't sound like anything I'd want to get into.
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    Re: Earth-like planet discovered

    Quote Originally Posted by BuckeyeRed27 View Post
    http://www.zeenews.com/articles.asp?...sid=27&sid=ENV


    Now all we need is to be able to travel at the speed of light and we could see what's up in 20 short years. Still a pretty exciting discovery if you are into that sort of thing.
    If I remember my relativity well, once you approach the speed of light time "slows down" in the craft as compared to the "stationary" observer (let's say Earth).

    Depending on your speed...you can make it there and back, without a problem. Just be prepared to see your grandchildren tell you "get off my lawn".
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    Re: Earth-like planet discovered

    Quote Originally Posted by SunDeck View Post
    Then please tell me why they call them worm holes. Are they slimy? Doesn't sound like anything I'd want to get into.
    Giant intergalactic worms go through them.

    One of them is named Fred.
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    Re: Earth-like planet discovered

    Does their Adam Dunn strike out too much as well?

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    Re: Earth-like planet discovered

    Quote Originally Posted by Roy Tucker View Post
    Giant intergalactic worms go through them.

    One of them is named Fred.
    Are you sure you're not a scientist?
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