We've found Ceti Alpha... what?!
We all deserve a break. Pack your bags. Four Earth-like worlds found around nearby Tau Ceti
Scientists have found tantalizing signs that there are four Earth-like planets orbiting Tau Ceti, a Sun-like star just 12 light-years away. And two of those worlds could be home to life. There has been a lot of interest in the possibility of planets around Tau Ceti, since it has a similar mass and composition as our own Sun. …
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Thursday 10th August 2017 07:55 GMT Pen-y-gors
Re: Packing bags now....
It would probably appeal to 17million Brits - depending on what they find, they would have complete control over their own destiny, no immigrants, the opportunity for free trade agreements with all the other planets in the system. What's not to like? Start building that B Ark now.
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Thursday 10th August 2017 07:30 GMT cbars
Re: Ummmm
Goodness me they're moving quickly! In the three hours since you posted that Voyager1 has moved out to 138AU!
Either that or we're playing the quote-random-numbers game ;)
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/voyager/mission/status/
To be fair 40 vs 138 c.f. 794000 (a number I have not checked) is about equal
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Thursday 10th August 2017 14:22 GMT Teiwaz
Re: 12 ly not 12 million
we are arguably within reach of technologies that could get us there - space arks, generation ships etc.
Well, if not us, the descendants of the 'us' that board the things centuries earlier or the possibly brain damaged remnants of humanity that crawl out of the cryo tubes and start to eating each other...
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Thursday 10th August 2017 07:39 GMT h4rm0ny
Re: Colonization dilemma
If any of those planets are inhabited then the chances of them being at a comparable level of development as ourselves are astronomical. Either they are so far behind they are to us animals, or they are so far ahead as to make US the primitives. The only chance that we are comparably developed is if technological advancement stalls at a certain point and we are already very close to that point. Which would be a depressing thought.
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Thursday 10th August 2017 14:09 GMT Mage
Re: comparable level of development
So it's acceptable to stomp over less developed worlds?
No, I don't think so. Unethical. Let's treat this world properly first.
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Less than 14% of people here consume 75%+ of resources. (Mostly USA, yet one of the biggest rich-poor divides in G20).
Plastics pollution in ocean.
Hormone and Antibiotics.
Habitat destruction.
Species extinction.
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Tuesday 15th August 2017 19:04 GMT oldfartuk
Re: Colonization dilemma
There was a story a few months ago of a guy who works in Central London, near City Airport, its actually cheaper and quicker for him to live in Spain, and every morning goes: taxi to spanish airport, fly the City Airport, taxi to work from City airport, than it is to live anywhere in the UK and commute.
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Thursday 10th August 2017 11:13 GMT nickx89
'Just' that far!
If you mean by saying "just 12 light-years away" is equal to 12 x (9.46 trillion kilometers in vacuum) then yes! it's "just" that away. If astronomers says this being behind such far distance then how many many years it would take them to create such technology to travel at much faster speed than light of travel.
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Thursday 10th August 2017 16:24 GMT John Smith 19
What an astonishingly sensitive technique.
Reading the sunlight frequency shift depending on wheather the planet is "going away" or "coming toward" you.
Sadly all the paper has is that none of them is > 4 x M(earth) which is still pretty tough.
But the level it has to be improved to clearly sets a plan for future work.
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Friday 11th August 2017 10:19 GMT Sanguma
Taucetacean Hope Association
Don't worry - they're too busy fighting each other to come over and conquer us:
Fear In A Tau Ceti Refugee Camp
http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/10063/20151204-0207/www.antisf.com.au/the-stories/fear-in-a-tau-ceti-refugee-camp.html
In fact, it seems rather like certain parts of this planet at this time.