A waist of tme

[Dedevil]

I had to laugh when I heard on the news that a NASA scientist had discovered another EARTH like planet 60 something LIGHT YEARS AWAY. With the counties economy crumbling NASA has some twit announce that. If you dont understand it, it goes something like this; Light travels at a speed of 6x10to the 8 meters per second and in one earth year can travel a dam long distance. The LIGHT WAVES that NASA has just seen are coming from someting that may not even exist any more. At 26 Billion annual NASA budget i think a smart move for the American government would be to cut that crap out and start mixing cement.
THAT'S NOT LONG RANGE LOCATING
regards to all

[Geo]

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[Fred]

I think we have already way too much destroyed our planet and we must look forward to expand our destruction skills to other ones.
Seriously we must look a little bit on the long term and outside our square if we want to progress.The actual stupid political and economical crisis is nothing comparing to humanity evolution.
And you should study better, as looking to something 60 light years away is just seeing it the way it was 60 years ago.
Why are always retrograde people like you the less... "informed" ones ?

Originally Posted by Dedevil

I had to laugh when I heard on the news that a NASA scientist had discovered another EARTH like planet 60 something LIGHT YEARS AWAY. With the counties economy crumbling NASA has some twit announce that. If you dont understand it, it goes something like this; Light travels at a speed of 6x10to the 8 meters per second and in one earth year can travel a dam long distance. The LIGHT WAVES that NASA has just seen are coming from someting that may not even exist any more. At 26 Billion annual NASA budget i think a smart move for the American government would be to cut that crap out and start mixing cement.
THAT'S NOT LONG RANGE LOCATING
regards to all

[Qiaozhi]

Originally Posted by Dedevil

I had to laugh when I heard on the news that a NASA scientist had discovered another EARTH like planet 60 something LIGHT YEARS AWAY. With the counties economy crumbling NASA has some twit announce that. If you dont understand it, it goes something like this; Light travels at a speed of 6x10to the 8 meters per second and in one earth year can travel a dam long distance. The LIGHT WAVES that NASA has just seen are coming from someting that may not even exist any more. At 26 Billion annual NASA budget i think a smart move for the American government would be to cut that crap out and start mixing cement.
THAT'S NOT LONG RANGE LOCATING
regards to all

I assume you meant to say "waste of time" and not "waist". Unless you have a fixation about [planetary?] bodies.
Also, I don't agree with your outburst.

[Dedevil]

For those of you who do not understand lightyears goto http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_light or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-yearAnd my comment was 60 "someting" lightyears. I think it was 60 Billion lightyears.
So ok lets do the sums there are 60 seconds to a minute and 60 minutes to an hour and 24 hours in a day and 365 days to a year. If light travels at 300,000meters per second that makes that planet a very, very long long way away. And the light waves take time to travel that distance. So that image is of a planet that existed a very very long time ago. If we were able to invent something out of nothing to create artificial mass we would then have to send that artificial mass (anti matter) to that other earth like planet which would take time(t) and would travel slower than light. Then by the time it's taken for us to detect the orginal light from that planet (60 billion lightyears) to the time it takes to build something out of nothing (anti matter) and then send it to that planet, we would probably get there and find it's collasped into it's sun.
Maybe a better challenge would be if NASA could DISCOVER some fitness program to reverse the irevrsable effects of the LSD drugs that where out in America during the 60's.
Or maybe they could discover that they are a bunch of fools and need a budget cutback

rgds

[Fred]

Maybe you should first inform yourself about the real distance then talk about it.

[Dedevil]

Originally Posted by Fred

Maybe you should first inform yourself about the real distance then talk about it.

I am informed Fred and by my own reading, learning and understanding. Not by watching far too any star trek movies or programs like LOST IN SPACE. Do yourself a favor, turn OFF THE T.V. and read a book. You may (or may not) wake up from that LSD trip.

Rgds

[Fred]

Originally Posted by Dedevil

I am informed Fred and by my own reading, learning and understanding. Not by watching far too any star trek movies or programs like LOST IN SPACE. Do yourself a favor, turn OFF THE T.V. and read a book. You may (or may not) wake up from that LSD trip.

Rgds

Mmmh...Maybe you should try to turn ON your TV from time to time and discover there is a world around you.

[J_Player]

Originally Posted by Dedevil

For those of you who do not understand lightyears goto http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_light or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-yearAnd my comment was 60 "someting" lightyears. I think it was 60 Billion lightyears.
So ok lets do the sums there are 60 seconds to a minute and 60 minutes to an hour and 24 hours in a day and 365 days to a year. If light travels at 300,000meters per second that makes that planet a very, very long long way away. And the light waves take time to travel that distance. So that image is of a planet that existed a very very long time ago. If we were able to invent something out of nothing to create artificial mass we would then have to send that artificial mass (anti matter) to that other earth like planet which would take time(t) and would travel slower than light. Then by the time it's taken for us to detect the orginal light from that planet (60 billion lightyears) to the time it takes to build something out of nothing (anti matter) and then send it to that planet, we would probably get there and find it's collasped into it's sun.
Maybe a better challenge would be if NASA could DISCOVER some fitness program to reverse the irevrsable effects of the LSD drugs that where out in America during the 60's.
Or maybe they could discover that they are a bunch of fools and need a budget cutback

rgds

Hi Dedevil person,
I don't think there is any likelihood that this planet collapsed into the sun, nor do I think it would take 60 billion years to travel to this planet.
In fact I find it hard to believe that NASA made an image of a planet located 60 billion light years distance.
Isn't it true that NASA recently announced the farthest cluster of galaxies ever spotted by the Hubble telescope is 13.1 billion light years away?

Or am I wrong, and they spotted a planet much farther?


Best wishes,
J_P

[WM6]

Originally Posted by Dedevil

If we were able to invent something out of nothing to create artificial mass we would then have to send that artificial mass (anti matter) to that other earth like planet which would take time(t) and would travel slower than light.

Prof. Hadron agree with you:

http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/48105

[Qiaozhi]

Originally Posted by Dedevil

For those of you who do not understand lightyears goto http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_light or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-yearAnd my comment was 60 "someting" lightyears. I think it was 60 Billion lightyears.
So ok lets do the sums there are 60 seconds to a minute and 60 minutes to an hour and 24 hours in a day and 365 days to a year. If light travels at 300,000meters per second that makes that planet a very, very long long way away. And the light waves take time to travel that distance. So that image is of a planet that existed a very very long time ago. If we were able to invent something out of nothing to create artificial mass we would then have to send that artificial mass (anti matter) to that other earth like planet which would take time(t) and would travel slower than light. Then by the time it's taken for us to detect the orginal light from that planet (60 billion lightyears) to the time it takes to build something out of nothing (anti matter) and then send it to that planet, we would probably get there and find it's collasped into it's sun.
Maybe a better challenge would be if NASA could DISCOVER some fitness program to reverse the irevrsable effects of the LSD drugs that where out in America during the 60's.
Or maybe they could discover that they are a bunch of fools and need a budget cutback

rgds

I assume you're referring to Kepler 22-b, which is 600 light years away.

[J_Player]

Originally Posted by Qiaozhi

I assume you're referring to Kepler 22-b, which is 600 light years away.

600 light years?

Whatever....
60 something, 600, 60 billion, 6 trillion...
They're all the same when you "know your light years"

It just goes to show it is not "a waist of time" when "you are informed and by your own reading and understanding"


Best wishes,
J_P

[WM6]

Originally Posted by J_Player

600 light years?

J_P

Hi J_P

you did not take into account that this light is coming through high diopter LRL glasses.