Captain Picard ?

http://kepler.nasa.gov/

What's interesting is that the great majority of systems investigated are over 50 light years away. So what is the purpose then?

Because we are human pike.

Easy there Savage, though infinitely superior to a hippie, I wouldn't class you as human.
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Because they are human pike.

Happy now.

they are human we are human ... you mean it's human nature to do what thet are doing? And what is that?

if the subject doesn't interest you tommy....just stay away...or is there some other reason for your trolling posts

Do you still feel like killing me?

I know i'm posting alot in my own thread but this forum is deserted compared to what it once was. Any ideas as to why that is?


Returning to the matter at hand...space exploration...is the expense of $500 000 000 justified to arrive at either the result of :

- yes, there are close to 100 planets in the sample area within 200 light years that are "earthlike"

- no, There are no earthlike planets in the sample area within 200 light years that are "earthlike"


Either way, the great majority of them in the first case are still over 50 lightyears away. Consider how feasable it is at this time to send a probe there not to mention a manned craft.

Even if the best case senario unveils a "earthlike" planet at, say, 15 lightyears distant. How close is that? So of what value is knowing all this one way or the other?

And, remember, the operating term here is : "earthlike" which from the type of survaying the kepler probe will be doing ensures in no way that water or life will be present on such planets!

Yes, I'd happily beat you to death. Don't underestimate the potential of a balloon to do harm!
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Maybe those two things are related

At least we will know which way to aim the rocket that gets strapped to your arse.

Oh yea...how ya doin?

Beacuse 50 lights year is the minimum distance to to deport you, hillary, nancy and obama in order to protect the rest of the human race.


WTF were people thinking? "Oh yeah, Lets elect a President from a failed state, then he can nominate a secstate who ran her state into bankruptcy while she was busy selling everything to china that he could talk her cronies into, and we'll pair them with a majority leader who help bankrupt the one of the richest states in the union, a state with an annual income greater than most countires....yeah, that'll be good."

Frankly, the end of the universe is too close for you lot.

Perhaps ... did Henry suck dick in that movie ...

I have a weak spot for hippies...

Well... do you think it was justified spending all that money to get someone walking on the moon? Just by stating it that way it does not seem like much but in fact, that whole apollo undertaking was a huge boost to all kinds of scientific and engineering progress that we still profit from today. That still holds for most of the space program related projects.

If we ever get to making traveling over those distances a possibility then I think it's worthwhile to have that planet map available.

But again.. as a true hippie you should have known that the fun and the knowledge is not in the objective... it is in the journey towards the objective thath the fun and knowledge can be obtained.

...*cymbal crash*...

Quite good that.

Can't we all just get along!!!?!?!?

Is that too much?!

I will when you manage to sort out the scabs on your nut sac...

Having scabs on your nuts could be all the fashion on another planet.

You are assembling quite a bunch of groupies there, Wingy. Don't you have some "special" assignment for them?

Make sure you lay it out clearly for them because they do not seem like a bright bunch. They just don't seem to get it (whatever it is).

You will be the first I will let know WingDing if I find such a planet, but so far the only planet we have found thats even close to a alien race of scabby nutts is a planet called scouser, it was full of liverpool fans which was a disaster so we had it destroyed.

There you are my love Tom_Smart, sometimes I get the impression you dont like me ?

Good evening Unicomplex.

Tom loves you.
He has PM'd me to ask you to come to Liverpool and visit a pub called the Battlecruiser. There you will have a warm welcome of getting a good kick in and maybe a good mugging.

When they have finished with you, you will be shown the door to the local kids.

Hope this helps.

DB.

*Jabs at pr!ck with a sharp stick*

...Ok. Fecking spoil sport.
Just once more
*Kicks Unicomplex in the face, turning him cross eyed*
MWHHAHAHAHAHAH!

Good evening Tom_Smart.

I have an extra thick batch of wingy sauce.

For a small price I was told that this will remove the dirt off anything. By none other than the inventor, Professor Wingy.

Hope this helps.

Chunty.

*Grabs Unicomplex, shatters his jaw and pulls his tongue out*
*Grabs pick axe handle and beats the sht!t out of Unicomplex*
*Stamps on Unicomplex's neck and cripples him*

There you go. Not only will he need constant supervision for the rest of his life, he will never post here again!