earth like planet

Rita, are you familiar with the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? (A radio series, book(s), TV series and film). One informative extract is this:

Space, is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.....

The nearest star is four light years away - that is to say light, travelling at about 186,000 miles per second takes four years to reach there. The moon is couple of light seconds away, the sun eight minutes. Pluto, on the outskirts of the solar system, is about thirteen light hours distant. The centre of the galaxy is around 30,000 light years distant. The nearest large galaxy is two million light years away.

The Voyager probes, sent to investigate the outer planets in the 1970s and 1980s are on their way out of the solar system. They have been travelling for over thirty five years. Voyager 1, the most distant is now 17 light hours from the Earth. The nearest star is over 500 times further away.

 

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Here's another perspective to ponder. Imagine a single grain of sand on the surface of the Earth. Imagine how many grains of sand it would take to cover the surface of the Earth.

Some astro physicists claim that our telescopes can peer to the edge of the Universe viewing billions or even trillions of galaxies. Now imagine all those trillions of galaxies as one grain of sand.

 

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actually the first such "planet" was discovered by the parent stars "wobble".
the "planet" was huge in relation to the star.
an earth sized planet would not have been detected using this method and would not cause enough dimming of the star for a transit discovery.
we are generally talking about "planets" that are larger than jupiter, much larger.

 

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I can not comprehend what you said, but it looks really good to me. I don't we should tell everyone this, because people might wonder about the benefit of spending so much money on a venture that doesn't seem to have much benefit to us.

 

Astrophysicists have found many objects using perturbative methods. Good observation.

 

If you can specify what was not clear I will be happy to explain it more carefully.

I have two spearate reactions to this.

1. Learning more about the universe and our place in it is, in my estimation, of great value to us as a species and as individuals. The Voyager spaceraft were not designed to investgate beyond the solar system - they were designed to investigate the giant planets. They did this very successfully and thereby transformed our understanding of their origin and history. It just so happens that the paths they had to take to visit those planets meant the craft would eventually leave the solar system. So, we are gaining a wealth of information about the far reaches of the solar system and the transition to interstellar space from these craft almost forty years after they were launched. That is amazing value for money.

2. If my view is incorrect, then surely we must tell people about this as it would be wrong for their money to be spent unwisely.

 

There are actually a few theoretically likely possibilities already. Google "Alcubierre drive" and "Cleaver-Obousy drive."

 

Oh please don't be so naive, look at the rate of the progression our civilization is making in terms of achieving faster velocities for our man made craft. Already mathematical proof for faster than light (relative) has been proven as Alcubierre drive through contracting of spacetime in front of S/C and expandsion of spacetime behind of S/C. And you say we will have to wait millenia, still?

 

Aren't they using Nerve Gas in Syria today and yesterday. I am surprised you have any faith in the ability of mankind to make such a leap in technology, faced with the problems ahead.

 

Wow, so far away
but, there does not necessarily have life

 

have you ever read on:
Chris macckays ideas of surface life on Titan?
Or the very real possibility that if not life their chould be a massive amount of free oxygen on Jupiters moon Europa

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as Carl Sagan said:

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It's still important that this research gets done

 

I dont think there any life clue but it really exciting...

 

i'd go even if there's no proof of that planet being habitable! but we got the same wall over and over; ITS TOO FAR! we can only dream about it

 

You can't get there it is too far.