NASA Discovers 700 new planets - 140 similar to Earth

Quote from killthesunshine:

you are again making the same argument you did a few page ago..that the rate of progress of mankind's knowledge makes everything possible eventually. this assertion is illogical and a matter of irrational faith or belief :D
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Actually, it is illogical for you to believe that scientific progress will stop. History repeats itself. Science and technology has advanced from the dawn of time. It is this principle that I am basing my argument for future space travel on. Now THAT is logic.
 
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Actually, it is illogical for you to believe that scientific progress will stop. History repeats itself. Science and technology has advanced from the dawn of time. It is this principle that I am basing my argument for future space travel on. Now THAT is logic.
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Scientific progress will continue most assuredly.

Do you believe in physical laws of nature? Or does nature operate completely arbitrarily?

i sincerely hope for your sake the former.

Physical laws define what is possible and what is impossible.

Scientific progress is the discovery of those laws :D
 
traveling faster than the speed of light is a huge hurdle, if they ever find a way. The theory of relativity, in part, states that moving through space at the speed of light...time stops to work. The faster something moves the space, the slower it moves through time. I probably didn't explain that very well, but you can see what kind of hurdle science is up against.
 
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RKA (Russian Federal Space Agency) NPS Development

Anatolij Perminov, head of Russian Space Agency announced that RKA is going to develop a nuclear powered spacecraft for deep space travel. Design will be done by 2012, and 9 more years for development (in space assembly). The price is set to 17 billion rubles (600 million dollar
 
600 million dollars

Hmnnn. This would get NASA 2 toilets, a hammer and a stack of liability waivers.

ps (I apoligize for the comment but couldn't reist):D
 
Quote from killthesunshine:

Most of these structures are millions of LIGHT-YEARS away.

The question is can a human travel the speed of light?

Einstein says it's IMPOSSIBLE

i believe him :D
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At one point you referred to special relativity. If you actually know the mathematical details of special relativity (other than what wikipedia or pop-culture has taught you), then you would not be arguing the points you are arguing now.

Traveling a great distance is not equivalent to the *time* taken to get there. That, and time is also a variable, not a constant.

Take a more advanced physics class (high school and community college doesn't cut it) before you refer to these types of ideas. Distance and time are not a linear relationship... that's the whole point of special relativity you dummy :)

In layman's terms, traveling at the speed of light has nothing to do with traveling across a tremendous distance.

You're too wrapped up in your own thought process to even understand what Einstein was actually saying.
 
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Quote from Mike805:

At one point you referred to special relativity. If you actually know the mathematical details of special relativity (other than what wikipedia or pop-culture has taught you), then you would not be arguing the points you are arguing now.

Traveling a great distance is not equivalent to the *time* taken to get there. That, and time is also a variable, not a constant.

Take a more advanced physics class (high school and community college doesn't cut it) before you refer to these types of ideas. Distance and time are not a linear relationship... that's the whole point of special relativity you dummy :)

In layman's terms, traveling at the speed of light has nothing to do with traveling across a tremendous distance.

You're too wrapped up in your own thought process to even understand what Einstein was actually saying.
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Is this related to the concept of time travel? Specifically, time travel into the "future"?
 
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