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#31
Aug 5 2011 09:47am
A bit off topic but I watched http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/episode/journey-to-the-edge-of-the-universe-3023 last night and it was really cool to watch on high definition. It actually made me to go their website to look for the DVD of it. Catch it if you see it on :)

/e wtf I can't put the name of the show as a link? Shitty board.

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#32
Aug 5 2011 09:50am
Quote (WidowMaKer_MK @ Aug 4 2011 09:13pm)
...try here


http://forums.d2jsp.org/forum.php?f=90


Try here

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#33
Aug 5 2011 09:55am
Quote (bentherdonethat @ Aug 5 2011 03:07pm)
You clearly know nothing about cosmology, but since I'm not like you I won't withhold information that I claim to have. Instead I'll demonstrate that I'll actually have it.

The sun won't last forever. In a few billion years it will finish burning through its hydrogen supply and start helium fusion at its core. When that happens, the expanding forces will become greater than the gravitational forces causing the sun to swell up and engulf much of the inner solar system. The sun will become a Red Giant and the Earth will be gone. If we're not on other planets by the time that happens, our species is gone.

And that's assuming we don't have an ELE (extinction level event) from a large asteroid or have our climate patterns dramatically altered in the mean time.

So yes, we will need to leave sooner or later. The Earth isn't going to be our home forever.


I doubt there will be any humans left in 5 billion years.

Also, we would have to go to other solarsystems, not just other planets.
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#34
Aug 5 2011 12:54pm
Quote (WidowMaKer_MK @ Aug 4 2011 07:54pm)
...why would a sizable amount of people want to live at the very edge of death on an inhospitable planet and how would it benefit mankind ?


If everyone had your mentality, the nation you live in would have never been founded. After all, why would people set sail across the inhospitable ocean from Europe, to live on the very edge of death and how would it benefit mankind?
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#35
Aug 5 2011 01:39pm
Quote (russian @ Aug 5 2011 02:54pm)
If everyone had your mentality, the nation you live in would have never been founded. After all, why would people set sail across the inhospitable ocean from Europe, to live on the very edge of death and how would it benefit mankind?


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#36
Aug 5 2011 02:44pm
Quote (bogie160 @ Aug 5 2011 12:07am)
It is theoretically possible to alter Mars climate over a period of 900-1000 years.


With current technology yes. We'll eventually (Probably 100-250 years) be able to do that in a much shorter time.

Quote (WidowMaKer_MK @ Aug 4 2011 10:54pm)
...why would a sizable amount of people want to live at the very edge of death on an inhospitable planet and how would it benefit mankind ?


I bet people said that before they wen't over the new world too :rolleyes:

They can built living habitats you know, and theres a lot of people (Millions of people likely, so you could even be picky about who goes) who would love to be a colonist on Mars. We have to start living elsewhere or we'll never leave. They can probably expand the population in Earth by a couple million in space stations eventually but we'll need to have a lot of people leave, Mars isn't ideal but its a starting place.

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#37
Aug 6 2011 03:02pm
Quote (Baleee @ Aug 5 2011 02:50pm)
http://ismeret.virtus.hu/user_gfx/20080801/tn_aid6929_20080801055728_851.jpeg


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#38
Aug 6 2011 08:07pm
Quote (WidowMaKer_MK @ Aug 5 2011 11:37am)
...you need to spend more time on basic biology before you venture into cosmology !

If you were scientifically literate, the world would look very different to you. Since you're not, you must think I was being serious in saying you have two brains. I pity you, truly.

Quote (Molle_fkk @ Aug 5 2011 11:55am)
I doubt there will be any humans left in 5 billion years.

Also, we would have to go to other solarsystems, not just other planets.

Yes of course we'll need to go to other solar systems, but you have to learn to walk before you can run. We put man on the moon. That's our crawling stage. Walking will be when we've been to another planet in our solar system (and Mars is the best candidate for that since it has water, carbon, a 24 hour day, and is relatively close by). Leaving the solar system and getting to another star is a huge leap beyond that since we'll not only need to overcome the many challenges introduced with getting there (inter-stellar radiation, long periods in zero G, aging on the way there, etc), but we'll also need to know in advance that we have a suitable destination in mind.
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#39
Aug 7 2011 05:18am
Quote (inkanddagger @ Aug 5 2011 01:04am)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14408928

Striking new images from the mountains of Mars may be the best evidence yet of flowing, liquid water, an essential ingredient for life.

The findings, reported today in the journal Science, come from a joint US-Swiss study.

A sequence of images from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show many long, dark "tendrils" a few metres wide.

They emerge between rocky outcrops and flow hundreds of metres down steep slopes towards the plains below.

They appear on hillsides warmed by the summer sun, flow around obstacles and sometimes split or merge, but when winter returns, the tendrils fade away.



hae?
Wasnt that clear ages ago?

I mean google pics lol, doesn't the surface of mars look like there have been rivers ages ago?

Also more interesting finding.
2-3 days ago researchers found oxygen molucules in another star system!

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#40
Aug 7 2011 05:33am
yum martian bong water...thats what we've been after for decades
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