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captain kirk
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
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Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2005 8:58 pm Post subject: |
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Religion is for other people, ideally. Unless it's some charlatan behind the wheel people are thinking of others when they think of God(s). Maybe they get tired of lacking in faith and meaning and go with a kind of system of guesswork and gamble with it. With persistence. That's consistent and courageous.
Then there's the social religion just for appearances once a week. |
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Freezer Burn

Joined: 11 Apr 2005 Location: Busan
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Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2005 9:09 pm Post subject: |
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There's a link between skepticism and faith, one believes without proof and the other won't believe until they get proof. |
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sonofthedarkstranger
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2005 9:32 pm Post subject: |
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In 2014 we'll be able to image them directly. Right now we know of about 1500. |
As in see them? Are you serious?
Small planets too?
How well??
Could you elaborate? 2014, that's very specific. |
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mithridates

Joined: 03 Mar 2003 Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
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Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2005 10:18 pm Post subject: |
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It's true! The first telescope in the series will be launched then:
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(TPF-I): Multiple small telescopes on a fixed structure or on separated spacecraft flying in precision formation would simulate a much larger, very powerful telescope. The interferometer would utilize a technique called nulling to reduce the starlight by a factor of one million, thus enabling the detection of the very dim infrared emission from the planets. |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrestrial_Planet_Finder
Also, Europe is going to make an extremely large telescope some 45 times more precise than Hubble (though ground-based):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overwhelmingly_Large_Telescope |
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yemanja

Joined: 29 Sep 2004
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Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 12:29 am Post subject: |
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There was an article a few weeks ago about scientists finding a planet where they least expected. Orbiting one star in a trinary (3 suns, is trinary a real word, or did I just make it up?) system.
They actually named it Tatooine.
Scientists said they never expected to find a planet in that kind of system, so it opens up a lot more possibilities because a lot of the search for planets was where they expected them to be, and now it seems planets could be found in many other areas and diff kinds of systems.
just found the link
http://edition.cnn.com/2005/TECH/space/07/14/planet.suns.reut/index.html
See I wasn't making it up |
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mithridates

Joined: 03 Mar 2003 Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
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Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 8:20 am Post subject: |
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Yep, I remember that - that was great. Everytime people think they've figured out the universe it throws them another curveball. I think triple star system is the correct term, but whatever. |
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sonofthedarkstranger
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 8:42 am Post subject: |
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Ah, that's so exciting. I look forward to sitting down someday and reading the encyclopedia of other earths.
See I think this kind of thing is more better than manned missions to Mars.
Altho I suppose we'll have to try that out someday. |
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mithridates

Joined: 03 Mar 2003 Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
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Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 9:03 am Post subject: |
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Me too. I say to hell with manned missions for the next decade. They're not even close to worth it and private industry does a better job of it anyway. |
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