banana Posted September 1, 2016 Share Posted September 1, 2016 5 minutes ago, NewBornBairn said: See when they find these planets hunners o miles away, how do they get an artist over to paint it so quick? They don't actually paint the planet, costs too much to transport all the materials and would take quite a while to arrive anyhow. They actually just take a No Man's Sky screenshot. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthernLights Posted September 1, 2016 Share Posted September 1, 2016 A Space X rocket exploded on the launchpad today during some pre-launch tests. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dorlomin Posted September 1, 2016 Share Posted September 1, 2016 On 30/08/2016 at 16:56, Tommy Nooka said: If it says "I come in peace" ? The older I've gotten the more I've leant towards the side of this debate where it's probably not a good idea to go contacting sentient aliens as they'll highly likely to be quite apex predator-y, it's how evolution works. For about 2.3 billion years the oxygen levels of our planet have been broadcasting "Life Here" in big neon letters across the Galaxy for anyone who has a slightly better than our technology base. Simple, if they exist and are curious about life outside their solar system then they were likely here tens to hundreds of millions of years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-replicating_spacecraft More over they most likely left probes to monitor this planet. Our broadcasts are redundant. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Archer (Raconteur) Posted September 1, 2016 Share Posted September 1, 2016 1 hour ago, NorthernLights said: A Space X rocket exploded on the launchpad today during some pre-launch tests. I did that once, no problem, I just changed the sheets. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommy Nooka Posted September 2, 2016 Share Posted September 2, 2016 17 hours ago, dorlomin said: For about 2.3 billion years the oxygen levels of our planet have been broadcasting "Life Here" in big neon letters across the Galaxy for anyone who has a slightly better than our technology base. Simple, if they exist and are curious about life outside their solar system then they were likely here tens to hundreds of millions of years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-replicating_spacecraft More over they most likely left probes to monitor this planet. Our broadcasts are redundant. That's all true and it's probably more common than we think in the billions of star systems in the Universe. A hostile higher species might ignore us until it thinks we could be a threat or we draw attention to ourselves, kind of like if the Klingons had spotted Zefram Cochranes warp drive instead of the Vulcans. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banana Posted September 3, 2016 Share Posted September 3, 2016 First ever closeup of the north pole on Jupiter... The universe and our reality is fucking mental. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted September 3, 2016 Share Posted September 3, 2016 Jupiter doesn't bother me too much as it doesn't have a surface you can 'go to' per se. However, it was quite cool to see it's northern lights just as we would have. That's all true and it's probably more common than we think in the billions of star systems in the Universe. A hostile higher species might ignore us until it thinks we could be a threat or we draw attention to ourselves, kind of like if the Klingons had spotted Zefram Cochranes warp drive instead of the Vulcans. [emoji6] They'd probably just think "Ach, cool story bro. Given the time it takes for light to reach us from there, some extinction event will have wiped them out by now." 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topcat(The most tip top) Posted September 3, 2016 Share Posted September 3, 2016 Jupiter doesn't bother me too much as it doesn't have a surface you can 'go to' per se. However, it was quite cool to see it's northern lights just as we would have. They'd probably just think "Ach, cool story bro. Given the time it takes for light to reach us from there, some extinction event will have wiped them out by now." Or by the time they or their probes get here we'll be technologically ahead of the point they were when they set off 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fullerene Posted September 4, 2016 Share Posted September 4, 2016 On 03/09/2016 at 10:29, topcat(The most tip top) said: Or by the time they or their probes get here we'll be technologically ahead of the point they were when they set off The New Horizons probe to Pluto was the fastest ever but took 9 years to get to Pluto. It would take 5,000 years to get to Alpha Centauri if it was heading that way. Imagine their people showing up here with all their VHS tapes because they thought we were still using them, 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banana Posted September 4, 2016 Share Posted September 4, 2016 1 minute ago, Fullerene said: The New Horizons probe to Pluto was the fastest ever but took 9 years to get to Pluto. It would take 5,000 years to get to Alpha Centauri if it was heading that way. I love the idea of doing this, but successive technologies getting their faster and faster such that there are still 5 separate probes still on the way by the time the most recent actually arrives. The first probe sent would be a museum piece, an echo of humanity sent from the distant past. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommy Nooka Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 On 9/3/2016 at 12:31, Hedgecutter said: Jupiter doesn't bother me too much as it doesn't have a surface you can 'go to' per se. However, it was quite cool to see it's northern lights just as we would have. They'd probably just think "Ach, cool story bro. Given the time it takes for light to reach us from there, some extinction event will have wiped them out by now." Wormholes my man, WORMHOLES!!!!! Plenty of stars close enough to see something and still visit in time for tea (Proxima Centauri is less than 5 light years away). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Ferrino Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 On 03/09/2016 at 12:31, Hedgecutter said: Jupiter doesn't bother me too much as it doesn't have a surface you can 'go to' per se. However, it was quite cool to see it's northern lights just as we would have. They'd probably just think "Ach, cool story bro. Given the time it takes for light to reach us from there, some extinction event will have wiped them out by now." That's a thought...."Extinction tennis",,,, We just about get to the point where we know of each other, and then....boooooom..... Start again. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THE KING Posted September 6, 2016 Share Posted September 6, 2016 On 30/08/2016 at 15:17, banana said: SETI finds mysterious signal. http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/not-a-drill-seti-is-investigating-a-possible-extraterrestrial-signal-from-deep-space/ar-AAid9oY 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasy23 Posted September 6, 2016 Share Posted September 6, 2016 Well, turns out it wasn't an extraterrestrial signal at all.http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/08/turns-out-the-signal-astronomers-saw-was-strong-because-it-came-from-earth/ Brilliant. A bit like the Australian one where they were picking up microwaves which they thought were coming from space, and it took them ages to figure out it was actually coming from the staff canteen because people would pop open the microwave door before it had went ding. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted September 15, 2016 Share Posted September 15, 2016 Just noticed Star at Night is on now. Going to have to watch it later, and hope the fat bird tones it down a bit, but looks like an interesting one: Quote Chris Lintott and Maggie Aderin-Pocock report on the recent discovery of a planet with similar qualities to Earth orbiting Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to our solar system. The programme examines what the environment of this world might be like and the logistics of building a spacecraft capable of travelling 4.23 light years to reach it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmc dafc Posted September 16, 2016 Share Posted September 16, 2016 http://futurism.com/first-ever-discovery-complex-organic-molecules-found-on-rosettas-comet/ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted September 27, 2016 Share Posted September 27, 2016 Elon Musk is about to explain his planned manned Mars mission on here very soon. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bully Wee Villa Posted September 28, 2016 Share Posted September 28, 2016 Can't be watching a video at work, but having Googled him he seems to be a fan of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and South Park and therefore a good lad. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topcat(The most tip top) Posted September 28, 2016 Share Posted September 28, 2016 14 hours ago, welshbairn said: Elon Musk is about to explain his planned manned Mars mission on here very soon. From the topic list I couldn't see there was an attachment so it looked like Elon Musk is about to explain his planned manned Mars mission on here very soon. Which I initially read as meaning Elon Musk is about to explain his planned manned Mars mission on P&B very soon. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banana Posted September 28, 2016 Share Posted September 28, 2016 You jest but Div should be pulling his finger out to get more exclusive content on here, tbh 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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