Brilliant if the people on the other planet are readying the conqouring force ready for 2012. THE MAYANS WERE RIGHT!!
Rocket Dog said:And we shall call it....
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I know. I just wanted to know what you thought would happen.Chris Overhage said:How so what? I never stated an action. My post was for want of action. I never said anything about debunking Catholicism.The Austin said:How so?Chris Overhage said:The religious implications are going to be fun to watch. Lets see what the Vatican does here.
Just because their are more planets doesn't mean that Catholicism has been debunked or anything.
OP: I can has Star Wars lifestyle now?
Well I'll settle for 1/4th light speed and 80 years then. =(Saltyk said:I was thinking the whole "more energy than exists in the universe" part was a pretty big damper on the whole endeaver. Gotta admit that is a ton of energy.griffinmills said:I'm surprised you didn't bring up how equally problematic it is simply accelerating TO the speed of light let alone FASTER than the speed of light.Saltyk said:The sad part is that it is impossible to accelerate faster than the speed of light. From my understanding, it would require more energy than there exists in the universe to attain that speed. And twice as much to slow down.philosophicalbastard said:Great this will be one of the first planets to checkout when I discover FTL travel, but I think I've heard of this gliese before so I guess this information isn't really new.
No, we need to find a way to create wormholes or use whatever they did in Outlaw Star to travel through the vacuum of space.
Still, this is cool news, but completely expected. Eventually anyway.
Wormholes would be great! Or someway to warp reality around a space so as to change the "rules" regarding near, or faster than, light speed within that space.
If we could get to 1/2 of light speed we'd be to the planet in 40 years, lets get crackin!
I read a Cracked article about why space travel would suck a while back. Put a huge damper on the whole concept. There are a lot of interesting theories to get past some of these problems, but they are largely impracticle if not outright impossible.