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  1. littleze littleze is offline

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    Dec 7th, 2011 (12/7/2011 7:45am)

    surprised if not a repost but this is so crazy,

    http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/...7B501D20111206

    I vote we destroy it before it destroys us
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    Dec 7th, 2011 (12/7/2011 8:04am) in reply to littleze

    Well, this isn't a repost....
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    Dec 7th, 2011 (12/7/2011 8:21am) in reply to PoWdA

    at least its not a uranus like planet OP

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    Dec 7th, 2011 (12/7/2011 8:42am) in reply to wild_ride

    Always exciting when we find one of these. I hope there's some sort of super-genius out there who invents a warp drive within the next few decades so we could actually check these places out.
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    Dec 7th, 2011 (12/7/2011 8:44am) in reply to Lord Supremo

    Before we use a warp drive to get to sea kelp2542thirty we should really send a probe to uranus.
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    Dec 7th, 2011 (12/7/2011 12:32pm) in reply to Niceguy

     
    Originally Posted by Niceguy View Post

    Before we use a warp drive to get to sea kelp2542thirty we should really send a probe to uranus.

    Fuckin late
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    Dec 7th, 2011 (12/7/2011 12:38pm) in reply to Oh Rale

    No worries unless the inhabitants of this distant planet experience abnormally long life or they can travel faster than the speed of light.
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    Dec 7th, 2011 (12/7/2011 12:58pm) in reply to rebelfd

    Possibly discovered
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    Dec 7th, 2011 (12/7/2011 2:06pm) in reply to littleze

    Time to drill for oil?
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    Dec 7th, 2011 (12/7/2011 3:19pm) in reply to wackyJaxon

    lol @ reading reuters
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    Dec 7th, 2011 (12/7/2011 3:35pm) in reply to Esarbe

    600 light years away tho
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    Dec 7th, 2011 (12/7/2011 3:42pm) in reply to cmval

    Hopefully this is just the first of many to be confirmed. I think in the next few years they'll be finding ones much closer than 600 light years away.
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    Dec 7th, 2011 (12/7/2011 3:59pm) in reply to Oh Rale

     
    Originally Posted by Oh Rale View Post

    Fuckin late

    it's never too late for uranus.
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    Dec 7th, 2011 (12/7/2011 4:04pm) in reply to cmval

     
    Originally Posted by cmval View Post

    600 light years away tho

    wormholes tho
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    Dec 7th, 2011 (12/7/2011 5:10pm) in reply to kmc28

    So they found a planet they may have been earth like 600 years ago and can never be reached unless we figure out how to warp space and time.. Looks like we would spend the billions on that research before trying to find a destination.
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    Dec 7th, 2011 (12/7/2011 5:12pm) in reply to gamblingfun

     
    Originally Posted by gamblingfun View Post

    So they found a planet they may have been earth like 600 years ago and can never be reached unless we figure out how to warp space and time.. Looks like we would spend the billions on that research before trying to find a destination.

    [ ] understands what light year means
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    Dec 7th, 2011 (12/7/2011 5:14pm) in reply to Cmoney3

     
    Originally Posted by Cmoney3 View Post

    [ ] understands what light year means

    ?

    I think his post made sense. We are seeing it now so what we are seeing is actually 600 years ago...
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    Dec 7th, 2011 (12/7/2011 5:18pm) in reply to Cmoney3

     
    Originally Posted by Cmoney3 View Post

    [ ] understands what light year means

    sounds about right. What we see now is what was there 600 years ago right?
    Edited By: iamthedeck ftw Dec 7th, 2011 at 05:19 PM
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    Dec 7th, 2011 (12/7/2011 5:18pm) in reply to mattg1983

     
    Originally Posted by mattg1983 View Post

    ?

    I think his post made sense. We are seeing it now so what we are seeing is actually 600 years ago...


    meh idk, if you're looking through a really powerful telescope you are seeing it as looks much closer than 600 light years away...no clue if that is correct
     
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    Dec 7th, 2011 (12/7/2011 5:23pm) in reply to clemsonrich

     
    Originally Posted by clemsonrich View Post

    meh idk, if you're looking through a really powerful telescope you are seeing it as looks much closer than 600 light years away...no clue if that is correct

    Nol the light that makes it to your telescope left the place 600 years ago.
     
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    Dec 7th, 2011 (12/7/2011 5:25pm) in reply to clemsonrich

     
    Originally Posted by mattg1983 View Post

    ?

    I think his post made sense. We are seeing it now so what we are seeing is actually 600 years ago...

     
    Originally Posted by iamthedeck ftw View Post

    sounds about right. What we see now is what was there 600 years ago right?

    light year is a unit of distance not time
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    Dec 7th, 2011 (12/7/2011 5:25pm) in reply to Cmoney3

     
    Originally Posted by Cmoney3 View Post

    [ ] understands what light year means

    Pretty sure I thought I did, isn't it the distance light travels in one year? So that light left 600 years ago no?
    Edited By: gamblingfun Dec 7th, 2011 at 05:27 PM
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    Dec 7th, 2011 (12/7/2011 5:26pm) in reply to clemsonrich

     
    Originally Posted by clemsonrich View Post

    meh idk, if you're looking through a really powerful telescope you are seeing it as looks much closer than 600 light years away...no clue if that is correct


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    Dec 7th, 2011 (12/7/2011 5:26pm) in reply to Cmoney3

     
    Originally Posted by Cmoney3 View Post

    light year is a unit of distance not time


    its either/or
     
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    Dec 7th, 2011 (12/7/2011 5:28pm) in reply to Cmoney3

     
    Originally Posted by Cmoney3 View Post

    light year is a unit of distance not time

    This does not change the fact that it takes light 600 years to travel 600 light years...and thus, anything you see that's 600 light years away appears as it did 600 years ago, not as it does now.
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    Dec 7th, 2011 (12/7/2011 5:28pm) in reply to clemsonrich

     
    Originally Posted by clemsonrich View Post

    its either/or


    wtf no it isn't. It is a measure of distance. But yeah, since its how far light travels in a year, you see something 600 light years away as it was 600 years ago.
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    Dec 7th, 2011 (12/7/2011 5:30pm) in reply to threeven

    is it not a rate of distance/time? like if i said the distance between here and florida was "50 driving hours", and it was understood that one drives 60 miles in one hour, you would say its 3000 miles OR 50 hours?
     
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    Dec 7th, 2011 (12/7/2011 5:31pm) in reply to clemsonrich

     
    Originally Posted by clemsonrich View Post

    is it not a rate of distance/time? like if i said the distance between here and florida was "50 driving hours", and it was understood that one drives 60 miles in one hour, you would say its 3000 miles OR 50 hours?


    No, a light year is 9.46 x 10^15 meters. It is just a distance. Light travels at 1 lightyear per year.

    And even in your driving hour example, you are really still talking about just a distance. Assuming a driving hour is one hour at 60 mph, its just 3000 miles. So one for instance could say "How long would it take to walk 50 driving-hours?" Clearly you would be talking about 3000 miles, not 50 hours since it would take way longer to walk 50 driving-hours.
    Edited By: threeven Dec 7th, 2011 at 05:37 PM
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    Dec 7th, 2011 (12/7/2011 5:36pm) in reply to clemsonrich

     
    Originally Posted by clemsonrich View Post

    is it not a rate of distance/time? like if i said the distance between here and florida was "50 driving hours", and it was understood that one drives 60 miles in one hour, you would say its 3000 miles OR 50 hours?

    The speed of light is constant, so if you know the distance you can calculate how long it would take light to reach it and if you know how long it took for the light to reach it you can figure out the distance. Doesn't matter how powerful the telescope is, that just determines the clarity of the image at great distance.
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    Dec 7th, 2011 (12/7/2011 5:36pm) in reply to gamblingfun

    i just dont see how you can say something travels x distance over y period of time and not have it be a rate in some form. granted my mind is currently full of fuck.
     
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