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Here's why that nearby 'habitable' planet is BS

By JAKE ELLISON, SEATTLEPI.COM STAFF Updated 9:56 am, Monday, August 29, 2016

The European Space Agency just announced that it has discovered "clear evidence of a planet orbiting the closest star to Earth, Proxima Centauri. The long-sought world ... has a temperature suitable for liquid water to exist on its surface." It is, the ESO adds, the best shot at a habitable planet anywhere in our neck of the galaxy other than Earth.

The discovery is great science. But, let's be honest, it suggests a future that is either entirely impossible or so distant from our current era as to be utterly pointless to talk about.

First of all, if you are born as of right now ... you're not going. And, just to be clear, neither is anyone else.

Second of all, if you are born 1,000 years from now you are not going. If anything goes in the next millennium, it'll be machines. And, no one alive to watch that ship launched will see the mission through ... probably not even their children.

If in 10,000 years humans have overcome all of the very pressing problems far more likely to result in our extinction than the coherent economic, scientific and societal conditions necessary to build a spaceship that can travel just 4.5 light years and support enough human stock that can in turn replace itself over dozens of generations ... well, then your odds of going just went from zero to whatever the odds of one qualified person being selected would be in that world.

At that magical future moment, when you and your 1,000 compatriots (or, hell, 10,000) are lugging your spacesuit cases up the gangway, there will only be left behind several billion others who will, one hopes, have a future on this ragged planet. None of them will ever know the end of the story. In fact, neither will that future you.

Yes, FTL or faster than light travel (or, hell, even 20 percent the speed of light travel) may eventually be theoretically possible. Meaning, physicists will understand the forces of the universe, spacetime and all that, enough to give engineers the data and equations needed to conceptualize an FTL drive. At that point, it all stops. The energy requirement for folding space or crimping spacetime in front of a ship such that it can be sucked forward ... Dude, no.

Perhaps it will be possible at the size-level of part of a particle of a neutron. Good luck catching a ride on that ship.

The science needs to be done. The more we know, the better we are.

But we have to let go of the Sci-Fi fantasy of "exploring strange new worlds." We have to figure out how we're going to live on this strange old world. And we're not doing so great -- See here and here.

We need to build up the fantasy of a sustainable, defensible planet. After all, it is far more likely that humanity will be destroyed at its own hands or by an asteroid strike than that anything extraterrestrial will make the slightest difference.










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BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: Miniseries [ Monday 08 December 2003 USA ]


Adama: So say we all.

Crowd: (louder) So say we all.

Adama: So say we all!

Crowd: So say we all!

Adama: Are they the lucky ones? That's what you're thinking, isn't it? We're a long way from home. We've jumped way beyond the red line, into unchartered space. Limited supplies, limited fuel. No allies, and now, no hope? Maybe it would have been better for us to have died quickly, back on the Colonies with our families, instead of dying out here slowly, in the emptiness of dark space. Where shall we go? What shall we do? Life here began out there. Those are the first words of the sacred scrolls, and they were told to us by the Lords of Kobol, many countless centuries ago. And they made it perfectly clear that we are not alone in this universe. Elosha, there's a thirteenth colony of humankind, is there not?

Elosha: Yes. The scrolls tell us a thirteenth tribe left Kobol in the early days. They travelled far and made their home upon a planet called Earth, which circled a distant and unknown star.

Adama: It's not unknown. I know where it is! Earth. The most guarded secret we have. The location was only known by the senior commanders of the fleet, and we dare not share it with the public. Not while there was a Cylon threat upon us. For now we have a refuge to go to. A refuge the Cylons know nothing about.










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Here's why that nearby 'habitable' planet is BS


Updated 9:56 am, Monday, August 29, 2016


Yes, FTL or faster than light travel (or, hell, even 20 percent the speed of light travel) may eventually be theoretically possible. Meaning, physicists will understand the forces of the universe, spacetime and all that, enough to give engineers the data and equations needed to conceptualize an FTL drive.










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Metamorphosis [ Star Trek: The Original Series ]

Stardate: Unknown

Original Airdate: Nov 10, 1967


MCCOY: But that's impossible. Zefram Cochrane died a hundred and fifty years ago.

SPOCK: The name of Zefram Cochrane is revered throughout the known galaxy.










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Here's why that nearby 'habitable' planet is BS


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At that point, it all stops. The energy requirement for folding space or crimping spacetime in front of a ship such that it can be sucked forward ... Dude, no.










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Star Trek: First Contact (1996)


BORG QUEEN: You think in such three-dimensional terms. How small you've become.










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Here's why that nearby 'habitable' planet is BS


Updated 9:56 am, Monday, August 29, 2016


Perhaps it will be possible at the size-level of part of a particle of a neutron. Good luck catching a ride on that ship.










JOURNAL ARCHIVE: - posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 2:18 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Saturday 06 August 2016 - http://hvom.blogspot.com/2016/08/red-storm-rising.html


From 3/16/2013 ( --- ) to 6/21/2013 is 97 days

From 6/21/2013 to 9/26/2013 is 97 days


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KREM 2 CBS Spokane


Suspect breaks windows of stranger's Browne's Addition home

Lindsay Nadrich , KREM 5:15 PM. PDT September 06, 2016

SPOKANE, Wash. – A man was arrested Friday after police said he broke out windows of a stranger’s home on West 3rd.

Colburn Morgan was arrested for malicious mischief. In court Tuesday, Morgan was released with monitoring and appointed an attorney to his case to get him help for mental health issues.

The victim said he saw Morgan on his front porch screaming and yelling at him. The victim said he did not know the man. Then, Morgan started breaking out his house windows for no apparent reason. The victim said he broke three windows and the large pane glass in his main front door. He said he also punched loose a piece of wood covering another side door to his house.

Sharon Duval watched from her home as Morgan started breaking out those windows.

"I thought, 'Oh my gosh,' and I thought, 'Oh I hope he doesn't come over here,'" said Duvall.

Neighbors say Morgan first went into another neighbor's backyard, grabbed a stick of some sort, crossed the street, then for no apparent reason started breaking windows.

Duval said the homeowner could not stop Morgan from damaging the brand new door and windows the homeowner just replaced. But instead of running, Duval said Morgan just hung out.

"Sat on the grass and had a cigarette. Yeah, he did and then he came over here, he was sitting down and having a cigarette," Duvall explained.

Police arrived on scene and detained Morgan. Police estimate Morgan did about $750 worth of damage to the house. He was then arrested and booked for second degree malicious mischief.










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Springfield! Springfield!


Independence Day (1996)


The embedding's very subtle.
It was probably being overlooked...










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Here's why that nearby 'habitable' planet is BS


Updated 9:56 am, Monday, August 29, 2016


The science needs to be done. The more we know, the better we are.










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BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: Miniseries [ Monday 08 December 2003 USA ]


Adama: It's not unknown. I know where it is!










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Here's why that nearby 'habitable' planet is BS


Updated 9:56 am, Monday, August 29, 2016


First of all, if you are born as of right now ... you're not going.



- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 10:18 AM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Thursday 08 September 2016