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?
Re: Our universe is so rad!
Posted: Thu April 14, 2016 1:57 am
by Simple Torture
dimejinky99 wrote:
Simple Torture wrote:
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.
Re: Our universe is so rad!
Posted: Thu April 14, 2016 2:18 am
by dimejinky99
At c?
Lasers aren't light? I'm not being funny I thought they would make that quicker.
In any case there has to be a quicker way. One we haven't discovered yet like you said.
Re: Our universe is so rad!
Posted: Thu April 14, 2016 2:28 am
by Simple Torture
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.
Re: Our universe is so rad!
Posted: Thu April 14, 2016 2:29 am
by Norah
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.
Re: Our universe is so rad!
Posted: Thu April 14, 2016 2:43 am
by dimejinky99
Somehow assumed radio waves travelled a lot slower(speed of sound assumption?)
Still think we can develop what we have and make it faster. But at the same time I don't know if we can.
I'm sure some guy said this about smoke signals as Columbus left the coast of Ireland for the new world way back when.
Re: Our universe is so rad!
Posted: Thu April 14, 2016 2:48 am
by Norah
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.
Re: Our universe is so rad!
Posted: Fri April 15, 2016 5:30 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
cutuphalfdead wrote:
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.
Re: Our universe is so rad!
Posted: Fri April 15, 2016 9:13 pm
by Norah
E.H. Ruddock wrote:
cutuphalfdead wrote:
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.
Re: Our universe is so rad!
Posted: Sun May 15, 2016 12:29 am
by Simple Torture
Here's another "holy shit we are so small" video:
Re: Our universe is so rad!
Posted: Sun May 15, 2016 2:26 pm
by @SkitchP
@SkitchP wrote:
cutuphalfdead wrote:
What about Liz Walker's lip hair?
we say palette cleft in 2016, you insensitive prick.
heh
Re: Our universe is so rad!
Posted: Mon July 04, 2016 5:03 pm
by dimejinky99
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
Re: Our universe is so rad!
Posted: Tue July 05, 2016 2:56 am
by E.H. Ruddock
I hope we get a Europa report
Re: Our universe is so rad!
Posted: Tue July 05, 2016 4:13 am
by BurtReynolds
Simple Torture wrote:Here's another "holy shit we are so small" video:
I was wondering how it would be possible to travel from galaxy to galaxy if we are moving apart.
That is the most awesomest thing I've heard in my life or month.
Thank you
Re: Our universe is so rad!
Posted: Fri July 08, 2016 4:32 am
by knee tunes
Simple Torture wrote:
dimejinky99 wrote:
Simple Torture wrote:
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.
