Seven Earth-sized planets found orbiting nearby star

-=al=- · 23-02-2017 03:15AM

jamesbere wrote: »

What's the exchange rate euro to schmeckles

1 schmeckle = €140.29 :pac:

jamesbere · 23-02-2017 03:24AM

-=al=- wrote: »

1 schmeckle = €140.29 :pac:

Was alot better before brexit

Noo · 23-02-2017 03:29AM

JackTaylorFan wrote: »

The google homepage animation to celebrate this discovery is actually quite funny

Made me smile! Very cute.

JackTaylorFan · 23-02-2017 03:32AM

Noo wrote: »

Made me smile! Very cute.

I know, right?

CINCLANTFLT · 23-02-2017 09:14AM

corner of hells wrote: »

You did in your bollix , everyone knows you get seasick on the drive to Skerries.

Fair enough... I might have had my head in the jacks for the trip over... but after those big boobed waitresses and popcorn chicken I felt super! Also they have pills in the local version of Tesco that stop motion sickness and makes your poop into confetti! Farts are a scream now I can tell you!

Patser · 23-02-2017 09:17AM

If they have religion there, would they be
Trappist monks?

Please don't hate me....

Bet their beer would be out of this world!

Ok, I'll get my coat.....

CINCLANTFLT · 23-02-2017 09:21AM

Patser wrote: »

If they have religion there, would they be
Trappist monks?

Please don't hate me....

Bet their beer would be out of this world!

Ok, I'll get my coat.....

They have an awesome religion where everyone gets their own god... I was given Bill Murray, but I think you could ask for a Trappist monk... I then traded Bill in for Salma Hayek when she was a hot dancer in From Dusk to Dawn... then I found own the vampire version of her was my own personal devil! So I changed back to Bill Murray and found out the corresponding devil was Christie Moore after a visit to Shell to Sea!!!

The beer was good though

AudreyHepburn · 23-02-2017 09:26AM

Very interesting and exciting news - who knows what else is out there waiting to be discovered!

dar100 · 23-02-2017 09:29AM

AudreyHepburn wrote: »

Very interesting and exciting news - who knows what else is out there waiting to be discovered!

Is that really you Audrey??

LaFuton · 23-02-2017 09:33AM

we have been becoming the sci-fi of yesteryear for some time now, space colonization and mining are inevitable i think...

anyone else thinking of that new sci fi show The Expanse (which is actually quite good)

hopefully the megarich arsehole planet****ers leave first as per my theories leaving earth to the poorer but more environmentally conscious folk

gramar · 23-02-2017 09:48AM

40 light years away.
Light travels 300,000km in second.
A billion km in an hour 1,080,000,000.
Current space rockets go at about 30,000km/h
That's 4 years to travel the time light takes 1 hour to travel.
360,000 hours of travel x 1,080,000,000km per hour.

360,000x1,080,000,000 = distance
/ 30,000 avg speed = 12,960,000,000 hours or 540,000,000 days or 1,479,452 years. Give or take.
What really is the point?

Four Phucs Ache · 23-02-2017 09:49AM

I bet if their is life on one of them planets more advanced than us they could have sent a space probe our way a looong time ago, by the time we send ours and it gets on its way the 2 of them will fooking collide in the middle and we will never know.
When this happens ther will probably be a 2nd or 3rd 1000 year old tree over my grave or an ocean so as exciting as it is I'm now going to have a nice coffee and a smoke.

LordSutch · 23-02-2017 10:13AM

Don't mess wit de Aliens.

Look what happened to John Hurt!

Leave them be I say...

Riddle101 · 23-02-2017 10:33AM

You now when we view these planets we're actually looking at them in the past. The amount of time it takes for the light from TRAPPIST-1 to travel here would make it look as if we're witnessing it in the past as opposed to it's present self. For all we know the star could have been destroyed but we wouldn't know about it. In fact if they were to look at us right now. They'd see our planet from the way it was 39 years ago. Of course nothing much would have changed for us visually over the last 39 years, But still....

topper75 · 23-02-2017 11:06AM

AudreyHepburn wrote: »

Very interesting and exciting news - who knows what else is out there waiting to be discovered!

Academically curious. And that is about it I'm afraid.

The light we have just observed left that place when John Lennon was playing concerts here.
Light, mind, not a rocket.

I'm not so excited.

jamesbere · 23-02-2017 11:20AM

gramar wrote: »

40 light years away.
Light travels 300,000km in second.
A billion km in an hour 1,080,000,000.
Current space rockets go at about 30,000km/h
That's 4 years to travel the time light takes 1 hour to travel.
360,000 hours of travel x 1,080,000,000km per hour.

360,000x1,080,000,000 = distance
/ 30,000 avg speed = 12,960,000,000 hours or 540,000,000 days or 1,479,452 years. Give or take.
What really is the point?

So which bus should I take?

OneOfThem Stumbled · 23-02-2017 11:38AM

It's unlikely to have any complicated alien life (if any at all) as it seems to be a very young system (may only be half a billion years old). In comparison our solar system is nine times older.

Incidentally, everything on Earth will be incinerated half a billion years from now :eek:

Wanderer78 · 23-02-2017 11:40AM

OneOfThem Stumbled wrote:

Incidentally, everything on Earth will be incinerated half a billion years from now

Oh we may not have to wait that long, with the way things are going at the moment

OneOfThem Stumbled · 23-02-2017 11:43AM

Wanderer78 wrote: »

Oh we may not have to wait that long, with the way things are going at the moment

It's a best case scenario :pac:

JackTaylorFan · 23-02-2017 11:49AM

I really wanna play the new Mass Effect already

CiDeRmAn · 23-02-2017 12:25PM

The distance might be a 100 year voyage away, with probes being considered, pushed by laser, capable of making the journey first.
Still makes them within reach, certainly by the time we know what's there we'll be able to produce a sleeper ship to get us there at a significant fraction of lightspeed.

Cee-Jay-Cee · 23-02-2017 01:04PM

Grayson wrote: »

I'm pretty certain the food on some budget airlines is indestructible.

Ah yes but you'd need an airliner waaaay bigger than anything available today in order to carry enough food to last 40 million years!

23-02-2017 01:08PM

gramar wrote: »

40 light years away.
Light travels 300,000km in second.
A billion km in an hour 1,080,000,000.
Current space rockets go at about 30,000km/h
That's 4 years to travel the time light takes 1 hour to travel.
360,000 hours of travel x 1,080,000,000km per hour.

360,000x1,080,000,000 = distance
/ 30,000 avg speed = 12,960,000,000 hours or 540,000,000 days or 1,479,452 years. Give or take.
What really is the point?

Not going to lie -- about 99% of this went over my head.

gramar · 23-02-2017 01:13PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Not going to lie -- about 99% of this went over my head.

If your location was the final frontier instead of the final front ear you'd get it.

Skylinehead · 23-02-2017 01:17PM

gramar wrote: »

40 light years away.
Light travels 300,000km in second.
A billion km in an hour 1,080,000,000.
Current space rockets go at about 30,000km/h
That's 4 years to travel the time light takes 1 hour to travel.
360,000 hours of travel x 1,080,000,000km per hour.

360,000x1,080,000,000 = distance
/ 30,000 avg speed = 12,960,000,000 hours or 540,000,000 days or 1,479,452 years. Give or take.
What really is the point?

Voyager is going way faster than 30,000km/h and they're not rockets. In any case there's no way we're going anywhere with current rockets, there's a few designs like VASIMR that would be much better. Still going to take a long time mind.

gramar · 23-02-2017 01:25PM

Skylinehead wrote: »

Voyager is going way faster than 30,000km/h and they're not rockets. In any case there's no way we're going anywhere with current rockets, there's a few designs like VASIMR that would be much better. Still going to take a long time mind.

Ok so 60,000km it's still going to be 750,000 odd years.
Even at a 1,000,000km an hour it's going to be 44,000 years.

23-02-2017 01:50PM

gramar wrote: »

If your location was the final frontier instead of the final front ear you'd get it.

I'm a nerd, not a mathematician.

:pac:

SuperTortoise · 23-02-2017 01:52PM

gramar wrote: »

Ok so 60,000km it's still going to be 750,000 odd years.
Even at a 1,000,000km an hour it's going to be 44,000 years.

60,000kmh is fine for the 70's era when the Voyager craft launched but we've come a long way since.

There are plenty of examples of spacecraft in R&D stage and some even a little further along that has the capability of reaching Alpha Centauri in ~40 years, which would mean reaching the newly discovered system in less than 400 years, which in the grand scheme of things is super fast.

johnnyskeleton · 23-02-2017 01:55PM

Dr Crayfish wrote: »

This is a very interesting discovery. I hope we find out more about these planets in my lifetime. Do you think we'll ever achieve interstellar travel?

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/feb/22/thrilling-discovery-of-seven-earth-sized-planets-discovered-orbiting-trappist-1-star

We could broadcast episodes of Love Hate in their direction and see if they respond.

CiDeRmAn · 23-02-2017 02:14PM

One of the nuclear pusher plate engines could get there within 200 years, but as an initial probe it wouldn't need to have much mass. A probe capable of fabrication when it gets there, projected out, arrives, fabricates a radio transmitter and calls home.
Ultimately an engineering problem rather than science

Seven Earth-sized planets found orbiting nearby star

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