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Originally posted by SpookyVince
If I'm not wrong, travelling to that star system would take us (or any ship), given current technology, at least 100,000 years... The Zeta Reticuli (double) star system is situated at 39,5 ly, and at the moment, (I think it is) the Voyager 1 probe was sent in the direction of Alpha Centauri, our closest neighbor in the universe. Alpha Centauri is roughly at 4 ly, and the probe won't be there until 28,000 years...
Originally posted by Gazrok
Add this to the puzzle, back in the 90's, the project to detect extra solar planets (i.e. planets around other stars), did detect a Jupiter like planet in the Zeti Reticuli system (any other planets likely too small), but it was later retracted. They stated it was an error. Computer models showed more planets as likely, even in the "life zone".
Look to Vince's info on the distance there....no probe going there in our lifetimes, or our children's children's etc.
Thing is though, we may have missed the window in which they would have used radio. Think about it, we've had radio for around a century. I'm not so sure it will be in use for another century. Given the time it takes a radio wave to travel here, chances are that any radio waves sent out by Reticulans would have hit earth either decades or longer ago, or even decades or longer from now! It's a tiny window, relatively....
Do you think they are covering it up?
Originally posted by merka
Originally posted by SpookyVince
If I'm not wrong, travelling to that star system would take us (or any ship), given current technology, at least 100,000 years... The Zeta Reticuli (double) star system is situated at 39,5 ly, and at the moment, (I think it is) the Voyager 1 probe was sent in the direction of Alpha Centauri, our closest neighbor in the universe. Alpha Centauri is roughly at 4 ly, and the probe won't be there until 28,000 years...
No biggie, we just need to evolve into robots and loose our sense of time. I just need to have a cup of tea, then I'll figure out how to do that.
Originally posted by SpookyVince
If I'm not wrong, travelling to that star system would take us (or any ship), given current technology, at least 100,000 years... The Zeta Reticuli (double) star system is situated at 39,5 ly, and at the moment, (I think it is) the Voyager 1 probe was sent in the direction of Alpha Centauri, our closest neighbor in the universe. Alpha Centauri is roughly at 4 ly, and the probe won't be there until 28,000 years...
Originally posted by Gazrok
Thing is though, we may have missed the window in which they would have used radio. Think about it, we've had radio for around a century. I'm not so sure it will be in use for another century. Given the time it takes a radio wave to travel here, chances are that any radio waves sent out by Reticulans would have hit earth either decades or longer ago, or even decades or longer from now! It's a tiny window, relatively....
Originally posted by warthog911
they lied,they are minons for the dracos.Read the dulce book
Originally posted by nukunuku
perhaps with some cyborg technology it will be possible to travel that far since lifetime would extend dramatically. And if the current scientific exploration continues like its going who knows where well be in 200 years. J just hope the ego-s wont screw it up somwhere down the line
Hmmmm...I had read somewhere that scientists had successfully fused organic brain cells to a computer chip I believe. I'll have to do a little research to confirm this.
They don't get hungry," said Gordon Johnson of the Joint Forces Command at the Pentagon. "They're not afraid. They don't forget their orders. They don't care if the guy next to them has just been shot. Will they do a better job than humans? Yes."