star trek is here! Kepler 22b the new earth

[RobArb]

So with 1 light year being about 5,878,625,373,183 miles (6 billion or so) and Kepler22b being 600million light years away, thats only 35,271,752,239,098miles

 

So if we could travel at the speed of light which is exactly 299,792,458 metres a second or about 186,000miles a second then it would only take 189633076ish seconds or roughly just over 6 years to get there:thumbup:

[Mesterh]

If one sets up a laser powered by the sun its beam can push a sail on a space ship, it will gradually increase in its push till the velocity of light is reached.

 

You sure about that?

 

It may get close to the speed of light but it wont reach it.

 

I know, a very fat bloke down the pub explained it all.

[RobArb]

might take a bit longer than 6 years then:001_rolleyes:

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

well, its all good fun to think about aint it, I mean we all new there would be planets with water and land at just the right distances form a star didnt we.

 

there is just too many stars and too much rock out for earth to be alone.

 

I wonder how big the aliens fungi are! lol

[nepia]

I heard from a friend, who may be wrong, that recent tests involving the large hadron collider (spelling?) had anomalies in the results suggesting particles travelled faster than the speed of light I'm far from a physicist, but if this turns out to be true, it could debunk the theory, and many other...

 

 

The methodology of the experiment was heavily questioned. At a recent physics seminar at Oxford University the question was asked 'do you believe that the experiment revealed the presence of particles that travel faster than light?'

One person put their hand up.

Doesn't prove anything but the relevant scientific community is highly cynical.

[skyhuck]

There is a possibility that the particles left our dimension and took a short cut through another, that way Einstein's theory would still hold.

 

If this was the case, the possibilities are endless!!!!!!!!!!

[RobArb]

Its only a matter of time before they find a wormhole!

 

Sent from Rob's GalaxySII

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

So it seems that now they want to look at the light wave lengths emimited from Keplar 22b to see what the atmosphere is made up of.

 

If oxygen turns up on any of these exo planets we have found life, because life makes oxygen.

[WorcsWuss]

because life makes oxygen.

 

In our world & understanding anyway.... could be something entirely different out ther....

 

Uuuurrrrr.... I need a lie down....

 

 

Oh, and I think the sun-laser-powered-sailing-space-ship is just about the coolest thing I've ever heard....

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

Two dudes on that Stargazing prog the last 3 nights did it for themselves bless em; to possibly be called Threplestone Holmes b.