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Originally posted by watchitburn
reply to post by atopsecret
I don't know about anybody else, but I think we have found the first location outside of our solar system that we should visit.
How long would it take us to travel 20LY with today's tech?edit on 10-1-2013 by watchitburn because: stupid autocorrect.
Originally posted by Just Chris
Originally posted by watchitburn
reply to post by atopsecret
I don't know about anybody else, but I think we have found the first location outside of our solar system that we should visit.
How long would it take us to travel 20LY with today's tech?edit on 10-1-2013 by watchitburn because: stupid autocorrect.
Longer then 20 years that is for certain!
But the discovery of Earth-like planets around Gliese 581 - both 581e and 581d, which was in the habitable zone - has also caught the public imagination.
Originally posted by Dispo
But the discovery of Earth-like planets around Gliese 581 - both 581e and 581d, which was in the habitable zone - has also caught the public imagination.
So that means there are 3 habitable planets in the system?
When we sent out this message, the Arecibo message, we included our solar system, with the planet we lived on raised to indicate this. See the yellow portion near the bottom.
And we received a controversial reply in the form of a crop circle. To date, the accepted theory has been "hoax."
Note the 3 raised planets in their equivalent section.
How exciting.
Edit: the message was sent in 1974, the reply was received in 2001. If it took 20 LY to reach Gliese, a year or so to be decoded, a couple of years of political bickering over what they should do about it and a year or so to formulate a reply, and then a year to deliver it... Timing works out.edit on 10-1-2013 by Dispo because: (no reason given)
Because it will take 25,000 years for the message to reach its intended destination of stars (and an additional 25,000 years for any reply), the Arecibo message was more a demonstration of human technological achievement than a real attempt to enter into a conversation with extraterrestrials. In fact, the stars of M13, that the message was aimed at, will no longer be in that location when the message arrives
They probably have not yet found any definitive conclusive evidence.
Originally posted by Nikola014
Why this news isn't in every newspaper? I mean, people deserve to know this. Did they found out something that they are not telling us? What did they found? Where's a media coverage?
Maybe because it wasn't a big deal, and was just one of the many random signals that SETI picked up on.
Originally posted by Watchfull
How come there was no big deal over the SETI findings.
"....very fast"?
Originally posted by Watchfull
Then the press release that we will find an earth type planet this year, this all seems too perfect, and is happening very fast.