Possible life found 140 light years away

[Sarek]

Even if the odds are one in a billion.

I've heard everything from 100 billion stars to 300 billion stars in our galaxy alone.

Now consider 100 to 200 billion galaxies.

I'm guessing not every star has planets around them, but some had, some have, some will have, and some will never have.

If the universe has no other life in it, imagine what humanity could do with all those resources

 

[Runwildboys]

our peculiar mix is unique; more than likely.

Agreed

 

[rags747]

Large breasted tiny waisted aliens, what could go wrong!

 

[Runwildboys]

Large breasted tiny waisted aliens, what could go wrong!

You're forced to marry one?

 

[gtb1943]

You're forced to marry one?

sounds more likely for Reverend Conehead.....

 

[Runwildboys]

sounds more likely for Reverend Conehead.....

Lol

 

[Streifenkarl]

So basically you are saying that we are so smart and knowledgeable that the question is settled.

This is the height of intellectual arrogance.

History has proven you wrong again and again.

Yup, that's settled. For you and for me and everyone in our time. The earth always was a sphere, some people just didnt know about it. Just like faster than lightspeed in a space ship never was possible. Some just hadnt heard about it. Einstein was smarter than you guys give him credit for.

Unless you bypass Relativity by bending space-time. Like using an Alcubierre Drive (aka Warp drive) if we can figure it out. It's mathematically possible. Right now, the concept requires negative mass, but they're constantly working on the idea. So you might be mistaken by saying it won't be in a space ship traveling faster than light. A ship utilizing warp would indeed travel faster than light to an outside observer.

It wouldnt look like a space ship was going in a straight line from a to be like a train would be passing you. That's what I'm saying here. Of course I can imagine us REACHING far solar systems by using some kind of technology not known to us yet. I never claimed that wont be the case. It just wont look like it looks like in Star Trek, as if a shippasses you in a straight line, just faster than light. That is simply not possible.

As far as the warp bubble goes, sure, why not? The ship just wouldn't “fly” through space in the usual sense though. Instead, it would create a kind of warp bubble, contracting spacetime in front and expanding it behind. The ship itself remains stationary relative to its bubble—it's the space around it that moves. So to an outside observer, there's no traditional movement across a trajectory.

Because no information can travel faster than light outside the bubble, an external observer wouldn’t see the ship approaching. It might simply vanish from point A and suddenly appear at point B—no in-between phase. Or it would even appear at the destination before disappearing at the start to an observer in the "middle". I think those are the scenarios that are fun to discuss.

 

[Runwildboys]

Yup, that's settled. For you and for me and everyone in our time. The earth always was a sphere, some people just didnt know about it. Just like faster than lightspeed in a space ship never was possible. Some just hadnt heard about it. Einstein was smarter than you guys give him credit for.


It wouldnt look like a space ship was going in a straight line from a to be like a train would be passing you. That's what I'm saying here. Of course I can imagine us REACHING far solar systems by using some kind of technology not known to us yet. I never claimed that wont be the case. It just wont look like it looks like in Star Trek, as if a shippasses you in a straight line, just faster than light. That is simply not possible.

As far as the warp bubble goes, sure, why not? The ship just wouldn't “fly” through space in the usual sense though. Instead, it would create a kind of warp bubble, contracting spacetime in front and expanding it behind. The ship itself remains stationary relative to its bubble—it's the space around it that moves. So to an outside observer, there's no traditional movement across a trajectory.

Because no information can travel faster than light outside the bubble, an external observer wouldn’t see the ship approaching. It might simply vanish from point A and suddenly appear at point B—no in-between phase. Or it would even appear at the destination before disappearing at the start to an observer in the "middle". I think those are the scenarios that are fun to discuss.

As far as I know, Einstein never tried to find a way around FTL speed, but if he were around today, he'd be our best chance...or Newton, after he was caught up on everything that's happened between then and now.

Einstein did theorize wormholes, but they rely on space being folded in such a way as to actually be beneficial, and with the level of technology they know about today, it would require more power than could possibly be created, just to open one big enough to fit through, much less sustain.