[meteorite-list] '100 percent' chance for life on newly foundplanet?
From: Thunder Stone <stanleygregr_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 14:22:38 -0700 Message-ID: <SNT117-W631775F92AD345EE0B5C68D26E0_at_phx.gbl> Ok then - how about a Radio Transmission.? I would assume we are doing this.? What would we send? We gotta do something! Greg S. ---------------------------------------- > From: sterling_k_webb at sbcglobal.net > To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com; stanleygregr at hotmail.com; steve.dunklee at yahoo.com > CC: clp at alumni.caltech.edu > Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] '100 percent' chance for life on newly foundplanet? > Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 15:37:43 -0500 > > To The List Travel Club: > > A 0.008c probe could be built tomorrow (got cash?). It > would take about 2600 years to reach the Gliese 581 > system and maneuver through it and we could hope > the instrument packages would have survived. > > Here's the real argument against primitive interstellar > probes: the "velocity" of technological advancement is > greater than the speed of primitive probes. In 200 years, > the 2600-year probe would be overtaken by a 800-year > probe. In another century, they would both be passed > by the "next-generation" system of propulsion, and so > forth. And by the time any of these probes could get there, > we might be able to go ourselves in a reasonable time > (by the ship's clocks). > > On the other hand, we might be able to make a 100-year > probe by the end of the century. For now, we need to > concentrate on survey and data collection technologies. > > For probe technology, I refer you to the 1973-78 study > by the British Interplanetary Society -- Project Daedalus. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Daedalus > The project is currently being designed as Project Icarus: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Icarus_%28Interstellar_Probe_Design_Study%29 > > See also the 1987-88 study by NASA and the Air Force, > Project Longshot (good name)" > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Longshot > > > Sterling K. Webb > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Steve Dunklee" > To: ; > Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2010 11:58 AM > Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] '100 percent' chance for life on newly > foundplanet? > > > > Gee only 20 light years away. Since it would take an infinite amount > > of energy to accelerate a small mass to the speed of light. I guess > > the world may never know! > > > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________ > > Visit the Archives at > > http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html > > Meteorite-list mailing list > > Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com > > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > Received on Wed 06 Oct 2010 05:22:38 PM PDT |
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