On Jan 11, 2012, at 5:55 PM, qraal01 wrote:
How cute! Thanks Jack. Truly this is the age of Wonders. If we can make a warp-drive, visiting such odd-ball systems via probes would need thousands of amateur planet-surveyors checking out the live picture feeds via Sarfatti Entanglement Communicators :-)
Cerf on science fiction
“It sounds like science fiction, but the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, they funded [Cerf's original and groundbreaking] Internet work, the interplanetary protocols work. Now theyre funding a design for an interstellar mission to get to Alpha Centauri within the next hundred years.”
Cerf said that with our current propulsion systems, it would take around 65,000 years to reach this star — obviously, the technologist noted, this would not do.
“The second problem is communication — how do you develop a signal that will be detectable over four light years?” he asked.
here's how? (my talk 11-11-11 at SLAC)
On Jan 11, 2012, at 6:21 PM, JACK SARFATTI wrote:
That's exactly right. Now you've got it. Indeed Jacques Vallee emphasized this point clearly at the first DARPA meeting Jan 11, 2011 below the Golden Gate Bridge at the old Army Fort.
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From: NASA Science News <
Subject: Kepler Discovers a Tiny Solar System
Date: January 11, 2012 1:39:12 PM PST
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NASA Science News for Jan. 11, 2012
NASA's Kepler spacecraft has discovered the tiniest solar system so far: a red dwarf star with three rocky planets smaller than Earth.
FULL STORY at http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2012/11jan_smallestexoplanets/
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