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cowsruleusall Red Paragoomba Level: 11  Posts: 36/50 EXP: 5415 For next: 570 Since: 03-12-05 From: Previously North York, ON Since last post: 41 days Last activity: 29 days |
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| This reminds me of a preview for a new mockumentary on Discovery Channel about discovering life on another planet. Also, if it's 15,000 light-years away, that means that from your perspective, traveling at exactly the speed of light (which is impossible according to my textbook), it would take you 15,000 years. Just a little clarification if anyone needed it. Also, there are 9,460,800,000,000 kilometers traveled in a light-year, so the planet is 141,912,000,000,000,000 kilometers away, or 88,180,028,599,104,000 miles away, so that's about 140 quadrillion kilometers or 90 quadrillion miles away (I have too much free time on my hands since school just got out). Damn, that's far. | |||
PeterGriffinTheMan Deddorokku Level: 29  Posts: 141/425 EXP: 137018 For next: 10867 Since: 03-02-05 Since last post: 4 hours Last activity: 6 hours |
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| Most likely they won't call it planet X. It looks like Jupiter to me, weird. Not good at knowing how far is 15,000 light-years? Is it further than Pluto? | |||
Valcion Kaizer Koopa Level: 15 Posts: 45/109 EXP: 15170 For next: 1214 Since: 05-08-05 Since last post: 143 days Last activity: 142 days |
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| ................. i have lost all hope. then again, this is someone who thinks its cool to be anti-bush. |
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Legion banning people for no reason sure is fun Level: 101  Posts: 4057/5657 EXP: 10399737 For next: 317938 Since: 03-15-04 From: The Crossroads is under attack! Since last post: 5 days Last activity: 5 days |
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| Oh. I thought he just hated shrubbery.  Bush Hater, one light year is about 6 trillion miles. That should be enough for you to answer your own question. |
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PeterGriffinTheMan Deddorokku Level: 29 Posts: 142/425 EXP: 137018 For next: 10867 Since: 03-02-05 Since last post: 4 hours Last activity: 6 hours |
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| But is it further away than Pluto or closer to Pluto. | |||
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Kasumi-Astra Administrator Level: 62  Posts: 1526/1867 EXP: 1971846 For next: 12840 Since: 03-15-04 From: Reading, UK Uni: Sheffield, UK Since last post: 1 day Last activity: 12 hours |
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| Oh for the love of Galileo... Once again this planet is not around orbit of our star >=( |
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Legion banning people for no reason sure is fun Level: 101 Posts: 4065/5657 EXP: 10399737 For next: 317938 Since: 03-15-04 From: The Crossroads is under attack! Since last post: 5 days Last activity: 5 days |
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Originally posted by Bush Hater In relation to what? |
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Graviteh Level: 31 Posts: 306/500 EXP: 165989 For next: 19374 Since: 03-27-05 From: The Internet Since last post: 42 days Last activity: 1 day |
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| He probally means the earth. | |||
Aeclml Paragoomba Level: 13 Posts: 51/79 EXP: 9007 For next: 1260 Since: 05-22-05 Since last post: 27 days Last activity: 25 days |
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Originally posted by Darth Legious Thats really cool, but what was really the purpose in Our time we will never see us even get close to that. |
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Legion banning people for no reason sure is fun Level: 101 Posts: 4067/5657 EXP: 10399737 For next: 317938 Since: 03-15-04 From: The Crossroads is under attack! Since last post: 5 days Last activity: 5 days |
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Originally posted by AeclmlOriginally posted by Darth Legious You don't know that. I'm sure a lot of the advances in technology we've seen since 50-100 years ago was unfathomable at the time. Hell, in the early 1900s, you tell someone that it's possible for man to walk on the moon and you probably would have been committed. |
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Valcion Kaizer Koopa Level: 15 Posts: 48/109 EXP: 15170 For next: 1214 Since: 05-08-05 Since last post: 143 days Last activity: 142 days |
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Originally posted by Bush Hater Are you fucking DENSE? |
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Legion banning people for no reason sure is fun Level: 101 Posts: 4070/5657 EXP: 10399737 For next: 317938 Since: 03-15-04 From: The Crossroads is under attack! Since last post: 5 days Last activity: 5 days |
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| Oh yeah, forgot about that. If you mean in relation to Earth, my answer would be: "Slightly more than a stone's throw away from Pluto." |
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Kyoufu Kawa I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way. Level: 70  Posts: 1593/2481 EXP: 3008456 For next: 7355 Since: 03-19-04 From: Catgirl Central Since last post: 14 hours Last activity: 13 hours |
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| Considering that, assuming one throws the stone at an appropriately high velocity as to leave Earth's atmosphere, which is a very stupid word if you ask me, and not getting caught in other planet's gravitational fields it will keep going and going like a Duracell until it hits something. Aim well and you'll avoid the other planets and eventually pass Pluto. Wait several hundred years, maybe thousands, and it shall reach what I just called Alderaan. There, it shall impact with the surface, causing the whole fucking planet to go boom. There. I think the main problem here is that Bush Hater has no sense of distance. |
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kitty Come on babe, pet the pussy ;) Level: 70 Posts: 1372/2449 EXP: 2962406 For next: 53405 Since: 03-15-04 From: Scranton, PA, USA Since last post: 3 hours Last activity: 3 hours |
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| If I could do an ASCII representation.... . - pick any 2 pixels that make up that period. The space between them represents the space between Earth and Pluto (0.6225 light years). How far from Earth is this new planet in ASCII representation? Draw a dot on your monitor, drive about 20 miles, then draw another dot. Probably even further than that. In comparative terms, this planet is 1.416x10^17th times further from Earth than Pluto is. That's 141,629,600,000,000,000 times further. Read as one-hundred forty-one quadrillion, six-hundred twenty-nine trillion, six-hundred million times further from the Earth than Pluto is. I hope I answered your question that common sense should have answered FOR you, especially when the article itself says so as plain as day An international team of astronomers has found a planet which, at about 15,000 light-years from Earth, is one of the most distant yet detected. Ah, and *edit* Originally posted by Kawa-oneechanIf you launch that stone at 1/2 the speed of light (which is far faster than any current technology can launch any object larger than a small molecule) it'd take 30,000 years for it to get there. Then another 15,000 for us to see if, in fact, the planet did "go boom." (edited by Yiffy Kitten on 05-27-05 10:12 AM) (edited by Yiffy Kitten on 05-27-05 10:13 AM) (edited by Yiffy Kitten on 05-27-05 10:16 AM) |
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Kyoufu Kawa I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way. Level: 70 Posts: 1599/2481 EXP: 3008456 For next: 7355 Since: 03-19-04 From: Catgirl Central Since last post: 14 hours Last activity: 13 hours |
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Originally posted by Yiffy KittenThank you. Just to make things clear, I have no sense of time. Also, fix your bold tags Tommy. |
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PeterGriffinTheMan Deddorokku Level: 29 Posts: 143/425 EXP: 137018 For next: 10867 Since: 03-02-05 Since last post: 4 hours Last activity: 6 hours |
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| Scientist believe that it is not in are solar system, doh. | |||
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Kasumi-Astra Administrator Level: 62 Posts: 1528/1867 EXP: 1971846 For next: 12840 Since: 03-15-04 From: Reading, UK Uni: Sheffield, UK Since last post: 1 day Last activity: 12 hours |
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Considering the planet was found by watching a star "wobble" about the centre of gravity between the two, it's a pretty obvious deduction that this planet is actually in orbit around that star  |
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Graviteh Level: 31 Posts: 315/500 EXP: 165989 For next: 19374 Since: 03-27-05 From: The Internet Since last post: 42 days Last activity: 1 day |
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Originally posted by Kawa-oneechan Energizer does that  (edited by Graviteh on 05-28-05 06:12 AM) |
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Kyoufu Kawa I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way. Level: 70 Posts: 1608/2481 EXP: 3008456 For next: 7355 Since: 03-19-04 From: Catgirl Central Since last post: 14 hours Last activity: 13 hours |
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| I also can't tell those two apart. Energizer, Duracell, whatever. As long as it can power those shoes I read about on Craziness. | |||
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kitty Come on babe, pet the pussy ;) Level: 70 Posts: 1375/2449 EXP: 2962406 For next: 53405 Since: 03-15-04 From: Scranton, PA, USA Since last post: 3 hours Last activity: 3 hours |
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Originally posted by Kawa-oneechanI wasn't pointing it out just for you, but for everyone. For some reason, some people have difficulty understaning exactly what a light year is. And my bold tags look fine to me.Originally posted by Yiffy KittenThank you. Just to make things clear, I have no sense of time. Bush Hater: WOW, does that mean you *FINALLY* read the article instead of asking stupid questions that the article itself answers? dun dun dunnnnn |
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