Yes, but there is no good way to be entirely sure that an exo-planet, regardless of size, has cleared its orbit of x % of its mass (like, the matter subordinate to Earth is a minuscule percentage of its mass, it has the cleanest orbit and Jupiter is number 2). Hate that, and it stuck in the craw of a number of other scientists.
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Planet, 4 times the size of Earth, may be way, way beyond Pluto
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Yes, but there is no good way to be entirely sure that an exo-planet, regardless of size, has cleared its orbit of x % of its mass (like, the matter subordinate to Earth is a minuscule percentage of its mass, it has the cleanest orbit and Jupiter is number 2). Hate that, and it stuck in the craw of a number of other scientists.
And that is why there is a different definition for exo-planets. If and when our technological capabilities allow better assessment and more information about them, a reclassification or a the expansion of the classification system will be made. Pretty much just like with Pluto.
Yeah,"NIBIRU!!!1" apocalypse end times etc. Interesting story though, it'll send those believers wild.
I H8 Memes
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I heard about this already in some shitty movie with Kirsten Dunst.
JasonUresti
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The Mi-Go aren't going to like this.
Barkley's Justice
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Niburu approaches
LOL
The Abominable Snowman
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When are we going to play god and make another planet hospitable? Its been far too long. The year 2000 was 12 years ago! We're behind schedule. I planned to vacay in Mars by 2015!
Insane Metal
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Interesting.
The more we know, the more we know that we know very little.
The more we know, the more we know that we know very little.
When has mankind every thought they knew a lot?
bengraven
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Oh crazy, we have an astrophysicist on the board!
Come on over to the Final Frontier thread and explain a probably thesis on this.
GTP_Daverytimes
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We sure do act like we know it all.
Thagomizer
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Hellstar Remina approaches.
Incredibly overrated graphic novel. Way too many unintentionally funny moments; there were times where it left me seriously wondering if it was intended as satire.
Although a "good" saying, I don't really like it. We are making advancements.
Rethink this. I am sure there were other examples than the inquisition.
Give us(me) a link.
I started to read up more on this 2 weeks ago, and it really is one of the most fascinating things. Just reading through the different sorts of planets, stars, and regions they discovered. And realizing that most of it is just guesswork. How very little we know about space.
Well, let me blow your mind. We have a satellite facing one small portion of the sky and still with our "limited" capabilities we found 691 exo-planets till date.
http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/
The following is highly speculative and just a play with numbers, but just please allow me to play it through:
40.000.000.000 Stars in the galactic habitable zone
_4.000.000.000 Stars with planets
__400.000.000 stars with planets in the Goldilocks zone
___40.000.000 Earth size planets
____4.000.000 Planets with a magnetosphere and tectonic pates
_____400.000 Planets with a sustainable atmosphere and lithosphere
______40.000 Planets with oceans
_______4.000 Planets where foreign objects (like asteroids) do not pose a threat
_________400 Planets that had "evolution pumps"
__________40 Planets with events like the cambrian explosion.
___________4 Planets that had managed to develop intelligent life according to human understandings.
p.s.: Dont come at me with stones and etc. Pls, I am just playing around to show the vastness of the universe, while playing around with the factor of ten. The initial number of stars in the GHZ is pretty much accurate.
It's the apex of open world games.
Nope, and why is this even a competition? I just cant understand...
Kepler search space:
That's pretty much how I feel about everything I've read from Itô Junji so far, yeah. Amusing ideas though.
KibblesBits
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While the execution may be viewed as poor the concept is a fantastic romp of body horror and fatalism. I'd love to see it done right in Hollywood. But then again... lol Hollywood. It would have some contrived happy ending.
Ignis Fatuus
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Go read his cat diary.
I should do that, indeed. I've heard good things.
GillianSeed79
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Isn't the New Horizons NASA mission still on track for Pluto and the Kueiper Belt? Is there any way we could prove this or not?
Actually forget that. NASA needs to get on getting a probe below the ice of Titan. There could be an ocean of life there just under the surface.
Actually forget that. NASA needs to get on getting a probe below the ice of Titan. There could be an ocean of life there just under the surface.
All things set aside, the real problem is how to make a return flight during ones lifetime. Frack Mars, and frack planet X we need something better... I.e. travel through wormholes and such.
I thought there was already an established methodology to opening up the universe to Earth:
- Find the Prothean ruins on Mars
- Use prothean technology to develop sub light engines
- Fly to pluto
- Discover the Charon relay
- Initiate First Contact War
- ???
- Profit
Thagomizer
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It did some things right, but pretty much the entire second half (with a few exceptions, like when they land on Ramina, the surprisingly subtle implication that
Ramina knows that there are intelligent beings on Earth and it's just toying with them for its amusement
a chase scene... around the world! In the outer atmosphere! Being chased by the entire population of the planet! WTF
I've liked most of Ito's other work though.
You are not the first one, so pls don't take the following personally.
Why the continuous reference toward the ME universe?
It is convenient and the ME universe has a large following on GAF.
People are disappointed with the boring big whimper entropy ending, and are hoping to get it changed.
In Mass Effect, intergalactic travel is made possible because of the discovery of a teleporter/wormholey thing just beyond Pluto's orbit, which was previously thought to be Pluto's moon, Charon.
Not really the same as this, but it's similar enough to plop the references down.
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