Old Man Posted January 29, 2010 Report Share Posted January 29, 2010 http://news.discovery.com/space/extrasolar-planets-extraterrestrial-life-kepler.html Orion anyone? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted January 29, 2010 Report Share Posted January 29, 2010 Re: Astronomers to find new Earth, Real Soon Now Always nice to have a spare, just in case. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RexMundi Posted January 30, 2010 Report Share Posted January 30, 2010 Re: Astronomers to find new Earth, Real Soon Now Fire up that Project Orion right now, it'll be ready when we find the first Earth 2. ~Rex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susano Posted January 30, 2010 Report Share Posted January 30, 2010 Re: Astronomers to find new Earth, Real Soon Now I keep telling them there's another Earth, just like this one, on the other side of the sun in an orbit that's a mirror image of ours. But no one will believe me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RexMundi Posted January 30, 2010 Report Share Posted January 30, 2010 Re: Astronomers to find new Earth, Real Soon Now That's not Earth, that's New Krypton. Which Orbits around Gor, Which in Turn is Orbiting around Counter Earth, Which Orbits around Terra. ~Rex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susano Posted January 30, 2010 Report Share Posted January 30, 2010 Re: Astronomers to find new Earth, Real Soon Now Dang it... now I need to redraw my map again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RexMundi Posted January 30, 2010 Report Share Posted January 30, 2010 Re: Astronomers to find new Earth, Real Soon Now Wait, I may have forgotten a few.....need to check my list at home I think when I count up all the On the other side of the sun planets out there, we're gonna end up with something as wonky as the system set up for Firefly. ~Rex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kristopher Posted January 30, 2010 Report Share Posted January 30, 2010 Re: Astronomers to find new Earth, Real Soon Now Orion wouldn't make a trip to another "earth" any more feasible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RexMundi Posted January 30, 2010 Report Share Posted January 30, 2010 Re: Astronomers to find new Earth, Real Soon Now Sure it does. Get's me there faster. ~Rex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kristopher Posted January 30, 2010 Report Share Posted January 30, 2010 Re: Astronomers to find new Earth, Real Soon Now Only if Orion comes with a free set of life-extending or suspended-animation technolgies as part of the sales package. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RexMundi Posted January 30, 2010 Report Share Posted January 30, 2010 Re: Astronomers to find new Earth, Real Soon Now Thinking of going the Clone Angle myself. Though I might have to fight for land with the armies controlled by the Cryo frozen Walt Disney when I get there. ~Rex....Sci Fi....No limits.....unless you want to trademark the term, heh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susano Posted January 30, 2010 Report Share Posted January 30, 2010 Re: Astronomers to find new Earth, Real Soon Now Thinking of going the Clone Angle myself. Though I might have to fight for land with the armies controlled by the Cryo frozen Walt Disney when I get there. ~Rex....Sci Fi....No limits.....unless you want to trademark the term, heh. Get 6, that way you might have a few left over after your conversations with Friend Computer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted January 30, 2010 Report Share Posted January 30, 2010 Re: Astronomers to find new Earth, Real Soon Now I'm thinking a databank of genetic codes, a bank of autowombs and androids to raise the resulting little sprogs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeropoint Posted January 30, 2010 Report Share Posted January 30, 2010 Re: Astronomers to find new Earth, Real Soon Now I'll upload myself into a computer and send a probe consisting of a chunk of computronium the size of a soda can, and a batch of general-purpose nanites which, when I arrive, will build the equipment to build the equipment to re-instantiate me as a physical being. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susano Posted January 30, 2010 Report Share Posted January 30, 2010 Re: Astronomers to find new Earth, Real Soon Now *pshaw* I'll just make like John Carter and simply will myself there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted January 31, 2010 Report Share Posted January 31, 2010 Re: Astronomers to find new Earth, Real Soon Now ... I bet no-one's done the research on that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McCoy Posted January 31, 2010 Report Share Posted January 31, 2010 Re: Astronomers to find new Earth, Real Soon Now ... I bet no-one's done the research on that. Sadly, you're wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susano Posted January 31, 2010 Report Share Posted January 31, 2010 Re: Astronomers to find new Earth, Real Soon Now Sadly' date=' you're wrong. Yeah... it was stuff like this (as well as MKULTRA, BLUEBIRD, and ARTICHOKE) that enabled me to justify why there are 900-point espers running around in the year 2030 in my Kazei 5 setting. I just decided the projects worked! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kristopher Posted January 31, 2010 Report Share Posted January 31, 2010 Re: Astronomers to find new Earth, Real Soon Now I'll upload myself into a computer and send a probe consisting of a chunk of computronium the size of a soda can' date=' and a batch of general-purpose nanites which, when I arrive, will build the equipment to build the equipment to re-instantiate me as a physical being.[/quote'] Well, if we're off in pure handwavium territory, we might as well make the ship FTL and skip all that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susano Posted January 31, 2010 Report Share Posted January 31, 2010 Re: Astronomers to find new Earth, Real Soon Now Well' date=' if we're off in pure handwavium territory, we might as well make the ship FTL and skip all that.[/quote'] I tried waving my hands... nothing happened. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted January 31, 2010 Report Share Posted January 31, 2010 Re: Astronomers to find new Earth, Real Soon Now You've gotta have the right snap, is all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RexMundi Posted February 1, 2010 Report Share Posted February 1, 2010 Re: Astronomers to find new Earth, Real Soon Now I tried a wave and a snap to. Still nothing (the person I wish to send far far away is still here nagging me), BUT, I like that computronium thing. That has game potentiality in a transhumanist kind of way. ~Rex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kristopher Posted February 1, 2010 Report Share Posted February 1, 2010 Re: Astronomers to find new Earth, Real Soon Now (Disclaimer: this is NOT directed at anyone here.) I just find it funny that people who scoff at the idea of FTL or anti-gravity technology as "science fantasy" will turn around and speak of things like "computronium" and "nanites" as if they're a given, and then you ask them how to make "computronium", or how theyr'e going to overcome the basic physical (energy, waste heat, etc) hurdles of making nanites as depicted in their futurist visions, they say "I don't know but I'm sure it will be figured out soon", often followed by a far-off smling gaze and some blather about The Singularity!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RexMundi Posted February 1, 2010 Report Share Posted February 1, 2010 Re: Astronomers to find new Earth, Real Soon Now I don't scoff the FTL stuff. Warp Drives got real math behind it. Still, the Computronium stuff has great Game potential. ~Rex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susano Posted February 1, 2010 Report Share Posted February 1, 2010 Re: Astronomers to find new Earth, Real Soon Now (Disclaimer: this is NOT directed at anyone here.) I just find it funny that people who scoff at the idea of FTL or anti-gravity technology as "science fantasy" will turn around and speak of things like "computronium" and "nanites" as if they're a given, and then you ask them how to make "computronium", or how theyr'e going to overcome the basic physical (energy, waste heat, etc) hurdles of making nanites as depicted in their futurist visions, they say "I don't know but I'm sure it will be figured out soon", often followed by a far-off smling gaze and some blather about The Singularity!!!! We'll resolve all of these issues once we can get our hands on that Unobtanium guarded by all those nearly nekkid 10' tall Smurfy catgirls. In space. With ninja. And robots. And stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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