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I'm gonna eat that planet
Only 150 light years away?! Wow, that's practically next door! Now all we need to do is figure out how to go light speed and even then it'll take a further 300 years just to know if the colonists got there safely or not!
Well. This is quite a pearl.
I don't have time to read a 16-page paper in detail, but I did want to know how the host star compares to everyone's favourite local solitary K-type dwarf, Epsilon Eridani. It's slightly less massive (~0.7 solar mass versus 0.8 for ε Eri) and quite a bit less bright (difference of about 0.1 solar luminosity), but I especially wanted to know about the age of the star. ε Eri is quite young and frothy, but the investigators here infer from the star's motion that it belongs to the thin disk, up to a whopping 10 billion years old.
So we are definitely not talking about an ε Eri-type system. So that should be mean no dust disks, no crazy activity from the star, and no newish planets still carving out their places through the system.
You've really got to wonder about such an old planet, however cold and quiescent it may be. The potential paths for climatic evolution on such a world boggle the mind, however cold it is. You could get an episodically or formerly active world like Mars, a beautifully unstable oscillatory world like Earth, or something completely different. Assuming any atmosphere, of course (safe assumption?). And that's without considering whether there are any other planets in the system.
I really wouldn't spend too much time thinking about this candidate detection, as we have literally seen just the one transit, and we will need to observe this fellow for a while to confirm the discovery, learn about other planets in the system, and so on. The investigators themselves note that the transit was shallow (meaning difficult to detect), but the good news is that the host star is fairly bright, well within reach of amateur equipment. I wonder if citizen scientists will be able to follow the transits.
Exciting times.
Send the pedofile billionaires
Send them on a generation ship without medbays with Hormel and Campbell’s and Dasani
Excuse me but if alpo's good enough for daisy, it's good enough for them
pedoplanet? this is how you get pedoplanet.
just kill them here so their bodies can rot and feed the planet.
They said send them, never said in what condition.
They're probably so full of weird shit and plastic surgical filler they will contaminate wherever they die. Imo send them to mars alive. The microbes on them might help terraform mars if you send enough billionaires. All of them should do.
as far as we know this is the pedo planet
They’ll never make it
Is there another similar format for this meme, but without this dipshit in it?
Does Bernie suffice?
Beautiful, Bernie is much preferred, thank you!
And 50% not
Found a calculator: https://www.calctool.org/relativity/space-travel
Assuming we want to accelerate at a constant 1g for half of the travel and then brake at 1g for the second half of the travel we would need 151 years to get there but only 9.794 years would pass on the ship. Depending on the mass of the ship we would need coupe million/billion tons of fuel (anti-matter).
What about accelerating 1g for 16 hours of 'day', then 8 hours of 3g 'night'. It would be one hell of a weighted blanket lol.
I say have a spinny ship that does that with the shape of the ring. Some kind of parabolic bullshit I'm sure there's a way to get it to math without having to have a 1g ring and a 3g ring but that works too
Oh only a billion tons of anti-matter. Good thing we've already made a few nanograms, so in a billion years or so we'll have plenty.
Yeah, and antimatter converts to pure energy with e=mc^2 what means that 60 grams contains like Hiroshima worth of energy
How can it take 151 years to go 150 light years when not close to lightspeed most of the time? I get the 9 year thing, but 151 years seems wrong.
Smarter people than me on the internet calculate that at constant 1g you only need 2.5 years to get very close to speed of light. So I guess you accelerate fast enough and reach 'almost speed of light' very early in your travel and total time is almost as if you traveled at speed of light the whole time.
The main advantage of keeping accelerating when you're at >90% of the speed of light is that it means you arrive faster in subjective time. You could take 160 years to get there and use ten times less fuel (or thereabouts), but the subjective travel time would go up by decades.
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The closer you get to lightspeed, the slower you accelerate (from an outside perspective). It's actually close to lightspeed for most of the time.
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So a bit quicker than terraforming Venus by chucking several oceans worth of ice at it, and some cyanobactera once it cools down in a few hundred thousand years.
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Imagine arriving there after 150 years only for the colony to fail due to a random prion in the environment.
150 years travelling at light speed?
Cool lets pack up the billionaires and ship em over there.
I like the way you think. I think the sun is closer though. Probably easier to get too. I don’t know I don’t work on space travel.
Recommend them to compute a sol gravity assist trajectory using chatgpt
Its actually easier to launch stuff out of the solar system than to slow stuff down enough to fall into the sun
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That could mess up the biggest computer ever, which is supposed to answer the question to which the answer is 42!
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137 is my favorite and lucky number, so I'm gonna decide this is the one that we find life on.
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-94° is apparently habitable?
We let Exxon and Ford build petrol stations and oversized pick ups and SUVs first, then just wait about 100 years.
That’ll do it.
That’s the reaction of billionaires when they realize they have a backup planet while they kill earth. Everyone else is fucked
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