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- RudeAtTheMorgue, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It is kind of a shame. But space exploration is plagued by so many different issues....it's become way too expensive, and to make matters worse the general public (or our representatives, maybe) just don't seem interested in exploring for the sake of exploring. You look back to when people gathered up crews and got funded to sail off into the unknown corners of the oceans, or to chart new courses across unfamiliar continents...those were the times. The next logical step is to go out into space...put a man on the moon, then on Mars....but the practicality of it all gets in the way. Most people would rather have their roads and schools fixed, I suppose, but I still see a need for us to explore. Even if we find out that there's not much around us, at least we'll know.
- kevinmotel, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4space agencies find a lot of gas giants, but our telescopes are too weak get any good evidence of terrestrial planets. which is a shame, because they are the ones most likely to harbor life similar to our own. although just think, at any moment some sort of signal is just light-minutes away from earth and detected by SETI. its a nice thought
- melophobia07, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4"Beta Pictoris is located 63 light-years away in the southern constellation Pictor"
If you put everything into perspective, thats pretty damn close. Although they dont even know if a planet is really there. - briguyd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Wasn't there a stroy about how the Hubble was broken?
Guess I need to RTFA. - reckless, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2My thoughts exactly. This is cool, but it happens all the time (relatively speaking). Wake me up when they find some Earth sized planets, and then lets talk about star voyaging.
- peritonlogon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@RudeAtTheMorgue
People still climb Everest or go to the North Pole. The fact of the matter is that almost no one just went exploring for the hell of it. They were all looking to become hopelessly rich... You know, new trade route to India. - peritonlogon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2We can barely detect planet sized asteroids just a little beyond Pluto, to do this in another solar system is asking a lot.
- philovivero, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"...at any moment some sort of signal is just light-minutes away from earth and detected by SETI. its a nice thought."
Did you mean light years? You do know that Sol is about four light minutes away from Earth, right? And the closest star after that is about four light years away. (If my information is outdated, please feel free to correct me, y'all) - reckless, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'm not asking for it. Just saying this isn't terribly exciting news.
- RudeAtTheMorgue, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Try: http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/06/24/hubble.camera.ap/
- crashflow, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3sure, let's stop funding for Hubble. its a decade old, so obsolete.../end sarcasm
- RudeAtTheMorgue, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0True, peritonlogon. Spices and land for the King and all that. At any rate, maybe the recent progress in commercial space exploration (versus government funded...) will help out?
- jjkurtz, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1Beta Pictoris sounds like it could be in the Battlestar Galactica show. Maybe this means that they're getting closer to finding Earth!!
- RudeAtTheMorgue, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2I dated a stripper named Beta Pictoris once. She had a couple of Jupiter sized planets.
- gotd0t, on 10/12/2007, -8/+1Very cool.
- trbetala, on 10/12/2007, -9/+1:) :)
- slicedoranges, on 10/12/2007, -14/+1asdfasdfasdfsdf
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