NASA announcement?!

[redact]

this nasa announcement was pretty shit, i heard about this discovery a few months ago.
i was hoping that if they were going to the trouble of holding an announcement then it would be for a separate discovery :|

 

[Splych]

extra terrestrial life ...?
my friend told me just today that NASA discovered a new planet and code named it "Goldilocks" . apparently, it's some new planet that just got disocvered and has similar if if not better properties than earth itself. but of course, they assume that there is life already inhabiting this planet .

all of this came from my friend, maybe a quick search on google would give you more accurate information ...

 

[Veho]

 

[cwstjdenobs]

Oo~, I remember the Chinese sent a...proton

1km, or something, in essentially no time at all. Teleportation ~(O_O)~

Teleportation in real life doesn't move an atom from one place to another, it transfers the characteristics of a particle (spin, orientation, etc) to another. It's all to do with quantum entanglement and will never lead to "beaming up", but could lead to faster than light communications.

Star Trek style teleportation is actually properly impossible due to uncertainty.

And it was photons 10 miles.

 

[Veho]

Star Trek style teleportation is actually properly impossible due to uncertainty.

Star Trek style teleportation uses Heisenberg compensators to take care of the uncertainty.

 

[Snorlax]

Well, that was a bit of a letdown...
I mean, it's cool and all, but I was expecting something with more 'pizzaz'.

 

[cwstjdenobs]

Star Trek style teleportation is actually properly impossible due to uncertainty.

Star Trek style teleportation uses Heisenberg compensators to take care of the uncertainty.

Damn forgot about them.

Back ot, I agree with SifJar. If the same amount of money was put into developing fusion power as is been put into "useless" (in the short term anyhows) projects like searching for aliens or the LHC we'd solve a whole load of problems in one go, and probably in the 3-5 year time frame rather than 2-3 decades. Even if you don't believe that man has made any contribution to climate change that would be a world changing development, and you could pull on board any state that wants in. Even if it was Iran or North Korea, because there is absolutely no way to turn a fusion reactor into a weapon. All development could be open and shared because of that and that in it self would be a good start towards improving world relations. Then when the world is power rich we could get back onto things like space exploration and esoteric physics, we could do it bigger, and we could do it cheaper relatively because the power cost would be a much smaller percentage than is available now.

But you'll never feed the world. There's enough food already. It's just the fat eat it all and waste the rest. Seriously, they only think they eat a third of what they do, are more likely to let food go to waste or throw things out for no good reason, and there's just as many of them as there are starving people (probably more now).

 

[Depravo]

Apparently it's not even an arsenic based lifeform at all.

http://bit.ly/egUT7l

 

[SifJar]

Apparently it's not even an arsenic based lifeform at all.

http://bit.ly/egUT7l

I fail to see how that article actually proves anything. Its title makes big claims the actual article doesn't really backup. Yeah, they don't survive as well in arsenic as phosphorus; but they DO survive. Yeah, not ALL the phosphorus in the DNA was replaced by Arsenic; due to the fact that DNA uses semi-conservative replication, that is to be expected.

 

[ProtoKun7]

Star Trek style teleportation is actually properly impossible due to uncertainty.

Star Trek style teleportation uses Heisenberg compensators to take care of the uncertainty.

We were actually talking about Heisenburg's uncertainly principle in the shoutbox yesterday.

Don't tell me some serious discussion doesn't go on in there.

 

[Lord-x]

So they found a different kind of bacteria in a lake on Earth,so what, bacteria is changing and adapting everyday,when they find this in another planet then it will be news.

 

[ykhan]

i saw this on some website but paid no attention as one of the other articles was "all human life could be descended from alien zombies"...