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I'd like to visit Kepler-452b but it's 1,500 light-years away: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler-452b
Always nice to have options on where to send the colony ships.
Followed by an ALM movement a hundred years later. Aliens will rise up complaining of how they were treated in the mines by no other than the earthling colonists.
A little farther out than Wolf 359, where of course humanity will one day battle the Borg.
Always nice to have options on where to send the colony ships.
Detected by the radial velocity method, measuring the parent star being pulled toward and away from us by a variation of at little as 2-3 meters per second! It always blows my mind that we can measure that.
Read up about the precision LIGO needs. Pretty mind boggling.
Something else I read about, that doesn't sound like it involves far out voodoo tech to me, that I wish I'd live long enough to see, is putting a probe out far enough and in the right position, to use the Sun's gravity as a telescope lens.
...and (maybe) actually get pictures of extrasolar planets.
I don't know if those pictures would be like Hubble's view of Pluto, or in principle could be much better.
If I could have one wish for something extraterrestrial, that is more achievable, it would be close up pictures of Haumea. Eris and others too, but Haumea most of all.
I care nothing at all for Mars colonies, but the most exciting thing about Starship for me is the hope that maybe combining it with in-orbit refueling could enable quicker travel to the outer solar system and loitering/orbiting instead of flying by at top speed.
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Followed by an ALM movement a hundred years later. Aliens will rise up complaining of how they were treated in the mines by no other than the earthling colonists.
Which begs a question. If the Africans colonized Europe first, would they eventually give them equal rights?
But it's arbitrary to call them "Africans" now, since they became Europeans and Asians and...
I doubt the intellectual honesty of using the settlement of Europe to excuse subsequent atrocities by Europeans with "Africans do the same thing".
Because all you would be doing is relabeling the same group of people we call Europeans and speculating on what evils they may have committed prior to learning to document it.
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Read up about the precision LIGO needs. Pretty mind boggling.
I don't understand anything about it, but I think I read that LIGO has been enhanced with a technique involving "squeezed light" which allows some bypassing of heretofore assumed fundamental physical limits through quantum wizardry. Something else I read about, that doesn't sound like it involves far out voodoo tech to me, that I wish I'd live long enough to see, is putting a probe out far enough and in the right pos…
One figure that stands out, the probe would need to be about 550 AU from the sun.
Voyager 1 is about 150 AU away from the sun right now, for comparison.
15 day orbit, 170 day planetary rotation, that's an interesting one Sucks for the amount of radiation ofc Would be interesting to hypothesize of it being a larger mercury like planet than a earth like one Please some more up to date astro-duders out there, is the James Webb currently capable of direct spectrography of exoplanets? We can do spectrography during the transit I am aware, but direct spectrography, is that…
31 light-years away. Proxima Centauri b is about 4. Don't think I'd like to visit either. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxima_Centauri_b I'd like to visit Kepler-452b but it's 1,500 light-years away: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler-452b
A little farther out than Wolf 359, where of course humanity will one day battle the Borg.
https://dave.autonoma.ca/star-sizes/01.png
That is, I modernized the following image into a poster:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Star-sizes.jpg
Email me for a copy of the full poster.
