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Nasa's Kepler Space Telescope Recently discovered an Earth-like planet  orbiting a  nearby star within the havitabal zone of our galaxy. Kepler-186f is approximately 500 light-years from earth on the Cygnus constellation.

http://www.nasa.gov/ames/kepler/nasas-kepler-discovers-first-earth-size-planet-in-the-habitable-zone-of-another-star/#.VNJipZ3F8Z8

 

I just thought this was cool.

 

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Now we just need a way of getting there..

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Only 500 light years? Hell, I could walk that! Hold my beer.

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Stick my ass in a cryotube and send me there....tired of this planet full of insane monkeys

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no I bet they are just like us only there R9 300 series cards are out already =)

Really? Then why aren't we trying to get there yet???

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The important question here is "do they have oil?".

Good point. If they do we'll probably be over there in a few months, "Liberating the population"

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The important question here is "do they have oil?".

By the time we reach there, our technology would be so advanced, probably 99.9% efficient solar cells or something along those lines, perhaps feasible fusion. 

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By the time we reach there, our technology would be so advanced, probably 99.9% efficient solar cells or something along those lines, perhaps feasible fusion. 

 

We have plans to get fusion feeding into the grid by 2040, look up DEMO and ITER

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We have plans to get fusion feeding into the grid by 2040, look up DEMO and ITER

Cool, didn't know about that project was happening until now. :D:P

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That's cool and all but what we see is how it looked 500 years ago so it could be gone by now...

i kinda doubt that, 500 years is a laughably insignificant of time from a astronomical perspective.

 

 

Now we just need a way of getting there..

yupp, it would just take as little as abit over 500 years of you were to travel at 99.99% the speed

of light... which means it really isn't feasible by conventional means. 

 

 

We have plans to get fusion feeding into the grid by 2040, look up DEMO and ITER

A plan is one thing.. as far as i know they still haven't figured out how to do sustained/controlled

fusion.

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That's 4.7302642 × 10^15 kilometers or 2.93924991 × 10^15 miles. Sigh, I will never find out in this lifetime. 

It will take 500 years for light to get there. So if you're going at the speed of light, it will take you 500 years. According to the theory of relativity, nothing can travel faster than light, so it would take over 500 years to get there. That's more than 7 life times.

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It will take 500 years for light to get there. So if you're going at the speed of light, it will take you 500 years. According to the theory of relativity, nothing can travel faster than light, so it would take over 500 years to get there. That's more than 7 life times.

possible solution 1 of 2: Cryotubes

possible solution 2 of 2: Einstein was wrong. As far as we know, nothing can travel faster than light in a vacuum.

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Solution 1 of 2: Cryotubes

Solution 2 of 2: Einstein was wrong.

Proof that he was wrong? Or are you just saying hypothetically? And cryotubes don't exist to my knowledge.

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yupp, it would just take as little as abit over 500 years of you were to travel at 99.99% the speed

of light... which means it really isn't feasible by conventional means. 

 

We need some kind of sci-fi propulsion system...

It would've been nice if a mass effect style mass relay popped up in our solar system. 

Or nasa's "warp drive" being an actual thing. But i'm partial to the mass relays. 

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