SPACE

RageMatrix · Post by **RageMatrix** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 4:43 pm 0

Istar wrote:
RageMatrix wrote:Was that the Horizon thing that was on last week? If so, there are two planets roughly 5 Earth-Masses large, both at the opposite extreme edges of the habitable zone, so still quite likely that they will either be too hot or too cold. Can still hope, though.
No, that was talking about Gliese 581 c, not Alpha Centauri. However, the possibility of there being any habitable planets as close as 4 Light Years is, well, just awesome. And simply reinforces my suspicion that Roddenberry was a time traveller.

Ah, sorry - didn't know about earthy exo-planets round Alpha Centauri. Awesome stuff indeed

axel000 · Post by **axel000** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 5:26 am 0

12:24am EST, hatch is closed ... looks like we are go for launch and about 2 hours out

PVB · Post by **PVB** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 9:57 am 0

axel000 wrote:12:24am EST, hatch is closed ... looks like we are go for launch and about 2 hours out

She's up:

WiteWulf · Post by **WiteWulf** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 10:08 am 0

Mmmmm....pretty night launch

DTB · Post by **DTB** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 10:06 pm 0

Nice thing about the exo planets on Horizon was that the cold one permanently presents one side to the planet making it a slim chance of liquid water.

axel000 · Post by **axel000** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 2:29 am 0

About two hours out from arrival at ISS. Hopefully they televise the backflip on nasatv.

Dark_Circles · Post by **Dark_Circles** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 6:53 pm 0

They say space is infinate, but can anyone prove that? Buck Rogers may have something to say about that.

axel000 · Post by **axel000** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 8:07 pm 0

Depends on what you define as space doesn't it ?

WiteWulf · Post by **WiteWulf** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 8:58 pm 0

Or how, for that matter, you define infinity...

Dark_Circles · Post by **Dark_Circles** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 11:56 am 0

Well...youre both right in saying that. In basic terms I would define Space as the environment someone encounters after leaving the Earths atmosphere and I would define Infinate as something thats never ending.
So if Space is infinate, how can anyone prove that? Please help me this puzzle keeps me awake at night!

axel000 · Post by **axel000** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 12:14 am 0

Well this is one for the history books folks, Nasa is announcing in tomorrow's edition of Nature that for the first time, an organic compound (building block of life) has been detected in the atmosphere of an exo-solar planet. This is fantastic news.

I can't wait until one of the next gen telescopes images an earth sized rocky planet with atmosphere in the habitable zone around another star. I give it five years out max.

Sir_LANs-a-lot · Post by **Sir_LANs-a-lot** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 12:30 am 0

Cool. Be interesting to see the DNA breakdown of what it consists of.

Sir_LANs-a-lot · Post by **Sir_LANs-a-lot** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 1:14 am 0

Beeb's picked up the story too:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7301390.stm

axel000 · Post by **axel000** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 10:27 pm 0

Well its turning out to be a breakthrough year for planetary science, NASA is now reporting probable signs of chemistry that would support ancient life in Martian soil....

So tons of salt, requiring even more water to create it in the layers its formed in .... meaning largish seas habitable for life. Now we just need to explore those salt flats...

ElfQrin · Post by **ElfQrin** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 12:03 pm 0

axel000 wrote:meaning largish seas habitable for life. Now we just need to explore those salt flats...

mmm... Martian dinosaurs.

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