dimejinky99 wrote:We don't have to go. Not sure how they'll get any info gathered from the probes etc back to us though.
Well, the star is only 4 light years away--so if they're sending back radio waves, the round trip is only 8 years. The issue will again be size--how do you detect transmissions from something so small? (I've heard "iPhone-sized" tossed around) From what I understand, they're just going to trust that during the twenty years it's traveling, we develop the technology to build more sensitive telescopes/radioscopes.
How about using a different tech instead of telescopes and radio waves though?
I have no idea what but there's gotta be a quicker way ?
Laser shot back to earth in binary or morse code would be quicker no?
dimejinky99 wrote:We don't have to go. Not sure how they'll get any info gathered from the probes etc back to us though.
Well, the star is only 4 light years away--so if they're sending back radio waves, the round trip is only 8 years. The issue will again be size--how do you detect transmissions from something so small? (I've heard "iPhone-sized" tossed around) From what I understand, they're just going to trust that during the twenty years it's traveling, we develop the technology to build more sensitive telescopes/radioscopes.
How about using a different tech instead of telescopes and radio waves though?
I have no idea what but there's gotta be a quicker way ?
Laser shot back to earth in binary or morse code would be quicker no?
Nothing's quicker than the speed of light, bro, and both radio waves and lasers move at c.
Sorry, c is the speed of light. And what I meant was that lasers and radio waves both move at the speed of light, so it's basically the same thing.
If there's a way to send information faster than c, not only have we not discovered it yet, but it would necessitate a complete reworking of basically every branch of science. So there's that.
Since the length of an object decreases as velocity approaches the speed of light, I guess you'd implode if you hit it. Then there'd be nothing left to go any faster.
cutuphalfdead wrote:Since the length of an object decreases as velocity approaches the speed of light, I guess you'd implode if you hit it. Then there'd be nothing left to go any faster.
But I guess the length of the object is entirely irrelevant when you're talking about waves.
cutuphalfdead wrote:Since the length of an object decreases as velocity approaches the speed of light, I guess you'd implode if you hit it. Then there'd be nothing left to go any faster.
But I guess the length of the object is entirely irrelevant when you're talking about waves.
cutuphalfdead wrote:Since the length of an object decreases as velocity approaches the speed of light, I guess you'd implode if you hit it. Then there'd be nothing left to go any faster.
But I guess the length of the object is entirely irrelevant when you're talking about waves.
saw a pic on twitter this morning from NASA from the juno satellite and jupiter was a smalldot dead ahead..then this popped up just now....it'll be there by the morning..this is gonna be so awesome to see..Jupiter close up..
crazy
dimejinky99 wrote:We don't have to go. Not sure how they'll get any info gathered from the probes etc back to us though.
Well, the star is only 4 light years away--so if they're sending back radio waves, the round trip is only 8 years. The issue will again be size--how do you detect transmissions from something so small? (I've heard "iPhone-sized" tossed around) From what I understand, they're just going to trust that during the twenty years it's traveling, we develop the technology to build more sensitive telescopes/radioscopes.
How about using a different tech instead of telescopes and radio waves though?
I have no idea what but there's gotta be a quicker way ?
Laser shot back to earth in binary or morse code would be quicker no?
Nothing's quicker than the speed of light, bro, and both radio waves and lasers move at c.
*nothing that we know of {yet}
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