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Oct 30, 2001, 8:04pm

Ok well i'm still kinda pissed that i was banned forever for defending
myself but life goes on.

Anyways, im doing some research for like a thing im writing and also for a
game im making, which both follow the same storyline anyways. So just tell
me what you think about each topic.

If you don't know what to say then just answer this question:
Do you think it could ever happen or may be possible - if so, how long from
now - if not, why?

1. The possibility of there being one or more planets beyond Pluto. Maybe
they are just too far away or too small to see?

2. The possibility of traveling to another solar system in our galaxy. If
you know, tell me how far the nearest solar system is and how long it would
take with a conventional rocket shuttle to get there.

3. Terraforming (turning un-livable planets into an Earth like planet)

4. Wormholes, gateway things (like Stargate SG-1 or osmething), and
teleporting (think Star Trek)

5. Since i can't think of anything else. Describe what you think the future
would be like. Go as far as you want.

Oct 30, 2001, 9:07pm

see below

"brandon" <a at b.com> a écrit dans le message news: 3bdf3205 at server1.Activeworlds.com...
> Ok well i'm still kinda pissed that i was banned forever for defending
> myself but life goes on.
>
> Anyways, im doing some research for like a thing im writing and also for a
> game im making, which both follow the same storyline anyways. So just tell
> me what you think about each topic.
>
> If you don't know what to say then just answer this question:
> Do you think it could ever happen or may be possible - if so, how long from
> now - if not, why?
>
> 1. The possibility of there being one or more planets beyond Pluto. Maybe
> they are just too far away or too small to see?

The possibility is nearly zero. Pluto and Neptune were already too far to see by the way, they were detected with other
techniques... But now the solar system is well-known by astronomers and I'm sure they haven't missed a planet :)

> 2. The possibility of traveling to another solar system in our galaxy. If
> you know, tell me how far the nearest solar system is and how long it would
> take with a conventional rocket shuttle to get there.

There is no known other stellar system in our galaxy yet... There recently have been a few planets discovered, the first extra-solar
planets ever discovered, but they're in other galaxies, which means millions of years of traveling at lightspeed, so don't even
imagine with a conventional rocket.

> 3. Terraforming (turning un-livable planets into an Earth like planet)

I think this will happen, but we probably won't be there to see it ;)

> 4. Wormholes, gateway things (like Stargate SG-1 or osmething), and
> teleporting (think Star Trek)

Gateways and things like that have no scientific basis...
as for teleporting, there have been a few successful experiments already, but only on very small scale (teleporting a photon a few
nanometers farther by using the undetermined states of quantic physics or something lol, don't remember well). Well for now they
calculated it would take 5000 times the age of the universe (which is 10 to 20 billion years) to teleport a human being. I don't
know if such a technology can be developed enough to be usable though.... you never know. The data also neeeds to be stored for the
teleportation, and with current means of storage (HDDs) it would take a stack of disk drives high as the distance from the earth to
the moon to store all the atoms in a human being. As you can see there's some progress to be made yet :P

> 5. Since i can't think of anything else. Describe what you think the future
> would be like. Go as far as you want.

Imagine that your parents or grandparents didn't even know tv when they were born, and now we're there with our computers, 3d cards,
internet and all... I can't imagine what the world will look like in 20 or 40 years :) But I'm pretty sure we'll never encounter any
extra-terrestrial or anything like that, even if some exist in some remote corner of the universe, we won't be able to reach them.

Fox Mc Cloud

Oct 30, 2001, 9:21pm

:) fox and I were talking, I can probably clear some of his stuff up.. read
below! :)

[View Quote] A planet planet? most likely there isn't one, it would've been detected by
hubble or another detection method.

>
If
would
>
> There is no known other stellar system in our galaxy yet... There recently
have been a few planets discovered, the first extra-solar
> planets ever discovered, but they're in other galaxies, which means
millions of years of traveling at lightspeed, so don't even
> imagine with a conventional rocket.

Oh yeah there's a solar system that's about.. 40-50 light years away.. it
contains 2 mars/venus like planets as detected by their pull on the star's
light (which they can approximate their location in orbit after factering in
our atmosphere's bending of light). Using rockets? it'd take a good
millenium to get there.. maybe longer I'm not sure on the exact dates.

>
>
> I think this will happen, but we probably won't be there to see it ;)

No doubt about this one happening. It's already planned on the Mars mission
in 2030-2050 :)

>
>
> Gateways and things like that have no scientific basis...
> as for teleporting, there have been a few successful experiments already,
but only on very small scale (teleporting a photon a few
> nanometers farther by using the undetermined states of quantic physics or
something lol, don't remember well). Well for now they
> calculated it would take 5000 times the age of the universe (which is 10
to 20 billion years) to teleport a human being. I don't
> know if such a technology can be developed enough to be usable though....
you never know. The data also neeeds to be stored for the
> teleportation, and with current means of storage (HDDs) it would take a
stack of disk drives high as the distance from the earth to
> the moon to store all the atoms in a human being. As you can see there's
some progress to be made yet :P

gateways like wormholes.. theoretically it's possible. Wormholes are just
black holes that have a different singularity structure. Stargate like
gateways? that's a hard one.. it might be possible if you accelerate
particles faster then light.. a lot faster. Star Treks? yes over short
distances in the future it might.. Fox was kinda right but instead of a
photon it was an atom of hydrogen or helium (they created a duplicate with a
ray of Quantum energy but the original was destroyed.. and the new one
destablized shortly after).

>
future
>
> Imagine that your parents or grandparents didn't even know tv when they
were born, and now we're there with our computers, 3d cards,
> internet and all... I can't imagine what the world will look like in 20 or
40 years :) But I'm pretty sure we'll never encounter any
> extra-terrestrial or anything like that, even if some exist in some remote
corner of the universe, we won't be able to reach them.
>

Yeah it's all good. We might become involved with an alien species such as
the "greys" or maybe we'll encounter a hostile form like in Independence
Day. I would like to see the day we meet an alien species :)

I hope this helps you! :)

--Bowen--

> Fox Mc Cloud
>
>

Oct 30, 2001, 9:36pm

i doubt there isnt another solar system in our
galaxy. i do beleieve a year ago or so we found
the first planet outside our solar system. i would
go to nasas site to see how far away it was

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Oct 30, 2001, 10:47pm

To my knowledge, the only planets found via the Dopplar effect are huge gas
giants. There's some explanation out there why not solid planets have been
found yet. I think it's something like a solid planet is has too small a
gravatic mass to detect with the dopplar effect.
--
SW Chris
Eagle Scout, Philosopher, Peacemaker, and... Kung Fu Master?
http://www.winternet.com/~mikelr/flame1.html

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Oct 30, 2001, 10:51pm

I don't think it was the dopplar effect, the gravity exibited on the star's
light is a different form.. there's a quantum energy involved that spikes as
the planet goes behind the stars view, and dissappears as it comes back
(leaving a small gap in the visible light being transmitted). No radar
picks it up (which means no dopplar) it's detected by some sort of satilite
in orbit.

--Bowen--
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Oct 30, 2001, 11:06pm

Er.... where's Wesley Crusher when you need him? :D
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SW Chris
Eagle Scout, Philosopher, Peacemaker, and... Kung Fu Master?
http://www.winternet.com/~mikelr/flame1.html

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Oct 30, 2001, 11:59pm

Lmao yeah good ol' wes.

--Bowen--

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Oct 31, 2001, 7:58pm

He's 29 now, ya know. http://www.wilwheaton.net/
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SW Chris
Eagle Scout, Philosopher, Peacemaker, and... Kung Fu Master?
http://www.winternet.com/~mikelr/flame1.html

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