it prob be blown up or dissapered by the time we get there how long would it take to get to that planet does it say?
600 light-years (not a chance of getting there)
:claping hands:I wonder if they have any players we could loan.
I hear SISU are taking the club away from the Ricoh and making this our new home
The images we're seeing are 600 years old.
If we start radio communication now then the transmission will reach there in 600 years.
There could be intelligent life there.
If so, it will take another 600 years for their reply to reach us!
Whether there is still a human race in 1200 years is another matter - there will still be a planet, but who knows what we might do if there's a Nuclear WW3!
Then again, haven't we just found a particle that travels faster than the speed of light?
As the speed of sound is only a tiny fraction of the speed of light then it would take millions of years to reach this planet (can't be bothered to do the maths).
I'm not sure what the speed of sound has to do wtih this? Spacecraft travel at many, many times the speed of sound and radio waves travel at the speed of light.
I'm not sure what the speed of sound has to do wtih this? Spacecraft travel at many, many times the speed of sound and radio waves travel at the speed of light.
Radio waves are not the same as sound waves.
The speed of sound is much slower - remember we can 'break the sound barrier' in supersonic ('faster than the speed of sound') aircraft - hence the 'sonic boom' of Concorde when it reached the speed of sound.
Radio waves travel at the speed of light - they're all part of the electro-magnetic spectrum - from infra red through visible light and then ultra violet.
We could communicate using radio transmissions which would travel at the speed of light, taking 600 years to reach the planet.
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
You are, in fact sir, quite correct! I apologise for my temporary brainlessness (been saying that for a few years now... when does it become not temporary?)!
Absolutely no apologies required my friend! A lifetime of reading Arthur C. Clarke, Asimov, Carl Sagan and countless others has reduced me to a Sci-Fi Anorak, for which I myself apologise!
As a Sci-Fi fanatic then, what did you make of my "theory?! Sci-Fi orrrrrr.... Sci-FACT?!?!
Well the 'faster than light' particles theory hasn't been proved yet I'm afraid. Even if it's true, then just because we've discovered them doesn't mean they haven't existed for hundreds of billions of years already. At the moment Einstein's theories of relativity still stand as the 'benchmarks'. As far as I can guess, the problem is that we can't put 'matter' into a 'light-beam' yet, and we're still bound by the laws of Physics - so interstellar travel looks impossible at the present time.
However, I would never discount any 'theory' - to quote Arthur C. Clarke's first law: When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
What annoys me is that we do have communication technologies that could and should transform the way we do business and live our lives, yet the ConDems would prefer to waste over £50b (that's £50,000,000,000) of our money on HS2 which will let us travel from Brum to London 30 minutes quicker. This would cost the average tax-payer £1,700.
Doing a bit of maths, the planet is 3521682633600000 miles away.
YepThat's exactly what I worked it out to.
Light travels at 186,000 miles per second. Therefore 60x60x24x365=seconds in a year 31,536,000 x 186,000 =
5,865,696,000,000 miles in a lightyear. Multiply that by 600 = 3,521,682,633,600,000 miles. (3,521 trillion, 682 billion 633 million, 600,000 miles. (give or take a few feet!)) Seeing as the moon is only 235,000 miles away and it takes DAYS to reach that, god knows how long it would take to reach this "new" planet earth!
Dunno kg82. (Is that your weight btw?) Just count the noughts and decide for yourelf!All I know is that it's a bloody long way!
82? Alas, it is not - DoB unfortunately. Meaning in 4 weeks today I will become 30 - only in body though!
Damn! I wish I was 30 again! (just coming up to double that!) and my weight is 107kg (16st. 12lb) ! Fat bar steward ain't I?!!I could say it's all muscle, but at my age, unfortunately it ain't!
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