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Re: APOD: Closest Star has Potentially Planet... (2016 Aug 25)
Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2016 3:33 am
by ta152h0
those radio scienrists ............
Re: APOD: Closest Star has Potentially Planet... (2016 Aug 25)
Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2016 4:29 am
by Ann
neufer wrote:ta152h0 wrote:
A radio announcer filled my ears with the notion tht with the current state of rocketry, we can get there in 50 years.
That would probably refer to the
Starchip Mission to Alpha Centauri.
I had forgotten that one. It was fun to read it through again.
But if we want to go to Proxima Centauri using Starchips, we might want to make peoplechips to go with them.
Ann
Re: APOD: Closest Star has Potentially Planet... (2016 Aug 25)
Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2016 2:50 pm
by rstevenson
ta152h0 wrote:A radio announcer filled my ears with the notion tht with the current state of rocketry, we can get there in 50 yeara.
I recommend a cotton swab, with or without pigtails.
Rob
Re: APOD: Closest Star has Potentially Planet... (2016 Aug 25)
Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2016 5:50 pm
by ta152h0
New Horizons, a super compct car with an enormous rocket took 9 years to get to Pluto, and that was iffy the last week or so
Re: APOD: Closest Star has Potentially Planet... (2016 Aug 25)
Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2016 3:14 pm
by Fred the Cat
Space X will launch MIT's next
transit observer next year I heard this weekend. On a shoestring budget in the millions rather than billions of Kepler. Quite a
design feat.
TESS. It
Ty bitty t
Ele
Scopes in
Space
Maybe SETI could use your help with your own
one? Too bad it can't listen at
1420.
Re: APOD: Closest Star has Potentially Planet... (2016 Aug 25)
Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2016 6:01 pm
by bystander
Fred the Cat wrote:Space X will launch MIT's next
transit observer next year I heard this weekend. On a shoestring budget in the millions rather than billions of Kepler. Quite a
design feat.
TESS. It
Ty bitty t
Ele
Scopes in
Space
Maybe SETI could use your help with your own
one? Too bad it can't listen at
1420.
TESS:
Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite
http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=31141
Re: APOD: Closest Star has Potentially Planet... (2016 Aug 25)
Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2016 10:13 pm
by Fred the Cat
Nice things about acronyms. You can always imagine your own. Tell ET NASA's Searching.