[havok7]

Originally Posted by CrystalWolf Awesome news. Looks like we have hope yet.

wow wow hope for what??

[TizzyT]

Originally Posted by japsander it is well 20.5 million http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gliese_581_g

or apparently ~117,800,000,000,000 miles.

Math:
1pc = ~19,000,000,000,000 miles
and Gliese 581 g is ~6.2pc away, so -

6.2 x 19,000,000,000,000 = 117,800,000,000,000

[japsander]

Originally Posted by havok7 wow wow hope for what??

to send him back home of course......

[havok7]

that place is unreachable dudes,you need to teleport yourself there or have some kind of wormhole so some sh1t like that, with today's technology we can only reach the moon and that is that,ok the sci-fi nerds can explain this much better than me,but i think that is it only a pic for us seen through very highly sophisticated space telescope,how do they call it hubble or hobble dont know

[japsander]

Originally Posted by havok7 that place is unreachable dudes,you need to teleport yourself there or have some kind of wormhole so some sh1t like that, with today's technology we can only reach the moon and that is that,ok the sci-fi nerds can explain this much better than me,but i think that is it only a pic for us seen through very highly sophisticated space telescope,how do they call it hubble or hobble dont know

there is no real pic.
that is a rendition of what it "may" look like

[TizzyT]

Originally Posted by havok7 that place is unreachable dudes,you need to teleport yourself there or have some kind of wormhole so some sh1t like that, with today's technology we can only reach the moon and that is that,ok the sci-fi nerds can explain this much better than me,but i think that is it only a pic for us seen through very highly sophisticated space telescope,how do they call it hubble or hobble dont know

LOL well maybe Hubble can see this but this finding was made with kepler, a space observatory. And to be honest..with todays technology we can already do long space journey just money and time is considered problems and who are you going to get to go that long into space, and also the other complications that haven't been mentioned(some I don't even know)??? mission to mars I think was ~8 months.

[Dominic1800]

Originally Posted by japsander that would still be limited to light speed. wormholes would need to be created to get there but even mathieulh cant do that so the rest of us have no chance

lmao ur probobly right......he probobly already went there and took a piss on that ocean lol but by the time we create wormholes in space i doubt this earth is going to be around with all the nuclear weapons around man its too bad that'll probobly live to see world war 4, which i'm sure it will happen with the terrorists

[steveo1978]

Originally Posted by hamtah My bad, I thought it said 20 light years. I'll fix that now...

You were right. I was gonna off the original post which had the 123 to earlier.

OT: I might be way off but since it is 20million light years away then that would mean what is seem from here is basically 20 million years old so there for that planet might not even exist any more.

[KillerBug]

Originally Posted by TizzyT or apparently ~117,800,000,000,000 miles. Math: 1pc = ~19,000,000,000,000 miles and Gliese 581 g is ~6.2pc away, so - 6.2 x 19,000,000,000,000 = 117,800,000,000,000

Using a spacecraft to travel at the speed of light will always be impossible as if you actually hit light speed, time inside the craft would stop...the engines would stop getting fed, the crew would be unable to control anything, and the electronics would stop working completely. You couldn't even rely on running out of fuel to stop the ship, and eventually the ship would hit something.

However, if you were right at the edge of the speed of light, time within the craft would travel much much much slower than time outside the craft. What would seem like millions of years to people monitoring the craft from earth would seem like mere minutes to the people onboard the craft. A fast enough ship could get a crew to this planet before they got hungry for lunch, without breaking the speed of light. Sure, the entire civilization they came from would be too old for the history books by the time they got there, but to them it would seem like a morning excursion.

[TizzyT]

Originally Posted by KillerBug Using a spacecraft to travel at the speed of light will always be impossible as if you actually hit light speed, time inside the craft would stop...the engines would stop getting fed, the crew would be unable to control anything, and the electronics would stop working completely. You couldn't even rely on running out of fuel to stop the ship, and eventually the ship would hit something. However, if you were right at the edge of the speed of light, time within the craft would travel much much much slower than time outside the craft. What would seem like millions of years to people monitoring the craft from earth would seem like mere minutes to the people onboard the craft. A fast enough ship could get a crew to this planet before they got hungry for lunch, without breaking the speed of light. Sure, the entire civilization they came from would be too old for the history books by the time they got there, but to them it would seem like a morning excursion.

Hmm I think you have it backward.
In an experiment using 2 atomic clocks one on the ground and on in a plane, while both clocks started at exactly the same time. When the plane landed the clock was faster then the atomic clock that was on the ground so in turn should the things outside be slowed down???