The Hunt for Planets Orbiting Alpha Centurai

Started by jimmy olsen, May 22, 2009, 04:00:10 PM

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CountDeMoney

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May 23, 2009, 10:28:57 AM
Quote from: Darth Wagtaros on May 23, 2009, 10:27:01 AM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on May 23, 2009, 10:23:53 AM
The Event Horizon tried to get to Alpha Centauri, and we saw how that worked out.
We just have to make sure that any interdimensional portals we make don't lead to hell.

Actually, it looked sorta cool, in a Clive Barker kinda way.

Savonarola

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May 23, 2009, 10:52:31 AM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on May 23, 2009, 10:23:53 AM
The Event Horizon tried to get to Alpha Centauri, and we saw how that worked out.

But you get much better score if you send colonists to Alpha Centauri; so I think it's worth the risk.
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

Syt

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May 23, 2009, 11:00:09 AM
If this means we can shoot our supercapitalists, hypermilitarists, treehuggers, idealistic peacenicks, religious wackos, chinese dystopianists and mad scientists there in a rocket I'm all for it.
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

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