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Habitants87 said:
The current farthest probe we have out there is Voyager 1. It was launched in 1977 and now, 32 years later it has travelled 15.64 light hours, or about 4.5 thousandths of 1 percent of 40 light years.

Guinness World Records can confirm at this time that the record for the Fastest spacecraft speed, defined by its heliocentric velocity (i.e., relative to our Sun), is held by Helios 2.

Helios 2 achieved geocentric speeds during the late 1980s, when it was travelling almost directly away from the Earth as it moved around the Sun. At its fastest in January 1989, Helios 2 was moving away from Earth at a speed of 356,040 km/h (221,232 mph).

40 light years is a distance of 378,429,218,903,232 km (378.4 trillion kilometers).

Distance = Rate * Time, solve for time,

(378,429,218,903,232 km) / (356,040km/hr) = Time

Time = 1062883998.72hours, which converts to 121333.79 years.

We really got to figure out how to travel the speed of light.
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Wormholes and bookshelves.
 
JohnnyHolmes said:
Wormholes and bookshelves.
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Yeah, without a wormhole, it's kind of crazy. I mean, even if today we launched a spaceship travelling at the speed of light, it would take 40 years to get there, and then 40 years to send back any data on the planets, so you're basically talking about 80 teams to get closeups of the planets, assuming that the zoom on our current telescopes can't reach that far.

Of course, if it's a true trappist system, it's probably got the best beer in the galaxy, so probably still worth it to investigate.
 
I was thinking that they could turn that into a personal vehicle/suit. Imagine cruising around in one of those.
 
UWHabs said:
Yeah, without a wormhole, it's kind of crazy. I mean, even if today we launched a spaceship travelling at the speed of light, it would take 40 years to get there, and then 40 years to send back any data on the planets, so you're basically talking about 80 teams to get closeups of the planets, assuming that the zoom on our current telescopes can't reach that far.

Of course, if it's a true trappist system, it's probably got the best beer in the galaxy, so probably still worth it to investigate.
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It's pretty insane just how unfathomably large the distances are in interstellar travel, let alone intergalactic travel.

Barring some kind of breakthrough in terms of the way we travel through space (wormholes, space-folding), it seems like the only way humans will ever get to another solar system is if a space vehicle that can sustain human life for generations is constructed and flung towards whatever somewhat nearby solar system has the most potentially habitable-looking planets.

Considering we haven't sent humans beyond low earth orbit since the Apollo missions, that seems a long way away. But it is somewhat encouraging that Space X is planning to send humans back to the moon (or at least, around the moon) by next year. The baby boomers got the moon landing---it's past time for the rest of us to get to witness more pushing of boundaries when it comes to human space travel.
 
LeafGm said:
It's pretty insane just how unfathomably large the distances are in interstellar travel, let alone intergalactic travel.

Barring some kind of breakthrough in terms of the way we travel through space (wormholes, space-folding), it seems like the only way humans will ever get to another solar system is if a space vehicle that can sustain human life for generations is constructed and flung towards whatever somewhat nearby solar system has the most potentially habitable-looking planets.

Considering we haven't sent humans beyond low earth orbit since the Apollo missions, that seems a long way away. But it is somewhat encouraging that Space X is planning to send humans back to the moon (or at least, around the moon) by next year. The baby boomers got the moon landing---it's past time for the rest of us to get to witness more pushing of boundaries when it comes to human space travel.
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Aren't they still looking for people to go to Mars?
 
I plan on having enough money saved...the only question will be if I'm still healthy enough...for a trip to wherever they can get me, whether that's low orbit, to the moon and back, I don't care and as long as it's under 25 000 I think I will be able to swing it within 15 years.


I sure hope it gets even cheaper, but I am planning for this; everybody in my family, anyone that knows me well, knows that I mean it lol.
 
Sooooo...

Biological man can identify as a woman.

Biological woman can identify as a man.

genetically white woman cannot identify as a black person.

Times are strange.

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/w...-as-black-changes-name-to-nkechi-amare-diallo

The former Spokane, Washington, NAACP leader who resigned in 2015 amid criticism that she was passing herself off as black has changed her name in an attempt to better identify with African-American heritage.

According to the New York Daily News, Rachel Dolezal changed her name in October to Nkechi Amare Diallo. Nkechi means “gift of God” in the Igbo language of Nigeria. The name Diallo, meaning “bold” traces back to the Fula, a Muslim group in Western Africa.

Dolezal told Britain’s The Guardian newspaper that she is near homeless. She cannot find a job, she said, and the only work she has been offered is in reality TV and porn.
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Habitants87 said:
The current farthest probe we have out there is Voyager 1. It was launched in 1977 and now, 32 years later it has travelled 15.64 light hours, or about 4.5 thousandths of 1 percent of 40 light years.

Guinness World Records can confirm at this time that the record for the Fastest spacecraft speed, defined by its heliocentric velocity (i.e., relative to our Sun), is held by Helios 2.

Helios 2 achieved geocentric speeds during the late 1980s, when it was travelling almost directly away from the Earth as it moved around the Sun. At its fastest in January 1989, Helios 2 was moving away from Earth at a speed of 356,040 km/h (221,232 mph).

40 light years is a distance of 378,429,218,903,232 km (378.4 trillion kilometers).

Distance = Rate * Time, solve for time,

(378,429,218,903,232 km) / (356,040km/hr) = Time

Time = 1062883998.72hours, which converts to 121333.79 years.

We really got to figure out how to travel the speed of light.
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[video=youtube;LbzaDt0IbF4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbzaDt0IbF4[/video]

30 second mark
 
Meh. Not afraid of robots.

Apple Music is still trying to suggest I download the Ed Sheeran album.

Algorithms still have a lot of improvement to go.
 
corksens said:
Meh. Not afraid of robots.

Apple Music is still trying to suggest I download the Ed Sheeran album.

Algorithms still have a lot of improvement to go.
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No kidding. Earlier today, twitter was displaying a bunch of ads in my feed targeted at people from Eritrea.

I can't really figure out how twitter's algorithms tagged me as a denizen of a small African nation in the Middle East.

Was it the Toronto athletes I follow? The hockey reporters? Canadian political commentators?
 
LeafGm said:
No kidding. Earlier today, twitter was displaying a bunch of ads in my feed targeted at people from Eritrea.

I can't really figure out how twitter's algorithms tagged me as a denizen of a small African nation in the Middle East.

Was it the Toronto athletes I follow? The hockey reporters? Canadian political commentators?
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KB.
 
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