Hello Star Trek Fans

TheMercenary · 10-31-2008, 10:52 AM

Star Trek fans, take heart — Mr. Spock's fabled home star, the nearby Epsilon Eridani, could harbor an Earth-like planet.
NASA astronomers today report that the triple-ringed star has an asteroid belt and a Jupiter-like giant planet in roughly the same orbits as in our own solar system. Only 850 million years old, a fifth the age of Earth's sun, Epsilon Eridani resembles a younger twin to our solar system. About 62 trillion miles away, it is the closest known solar system.

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science...ek-earth_N.htm

dar512 · 10-31-2008, 11:08 AM

Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me (one of my favorite NPR programs) had Leonard Nimoy as a guest on a recent show. Funny guy.

TheMercenary · 10-31-2008, 12:08 PM

I heard that, it was really good. I listen to that show a lot on the way home from work.

SteveDallas · 10-31-2008, 12:20 PM

Maybe we can invite the Vulcans over for the premier of the new Star Trek movie next spring.

lumberjim · 10-31-2008, 03:57 PM

It's kind of cool that we live in an age where we can imagine space travel, and meeting other civilizations and species of sentient beings......and believe it to be possible, by and large. And yet, we have not reached the age where we have killed each other off.

kind of a sweet spot.

ZenGum · 10-31-2008, 06:01 PM

@ LJ.

I fear it may be a brief age.

lumberjim · 10-31-2008, 06:18 PM

given the exponential rate of our progress, i would expect so.....especially relative to the years leading up to the current age.

in my gut....and working under the assumption of continued progress instead of Armageddon.... it seems like we are only maybe.....2-300 years away from interstellar travel. And once that happens, maybe like....oh.....6 months until we get eradicated by some advanced alien race.

deadbeater · 11-04-2008, 09:18 PM

I think by the year 3000 we humans would be traveling at the speed of thought. Not as depicted on Futurama.

I hope, I hope.

Aliantha · 11-04-2008, 09:20 PM

I don't think we'll still be here by the year 4000. I predict a hungry end for the world.

We should all stop breeding.

Clodfobble · 11-04-2008, 10:18 PM

...says the pregnant woman.

Aliantha · 11-04-2008, 10:22 PM

Yes, that was supposed to be the funny part mate.

DanaC · 11-04-2008, 10:34 PM

It aint the breeding .....we should all stop driving :P

Minx · 11-07-2008, 05:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SteveDallas

Maybe we can invite the Vulcans over for the premier of the new Star Trek movie next spring.

Eh?
Do tell...first I've heard of a new movie

SteveDallas · 11-07-2008, 06:28 PM

http://www.firstshowing.net/2008/10/...cast-and-more/

Bruce 9012 · 11-07-2008, 07:51 PM

Any Solarsystem that would have a chance at life has to have a jupiter they are trash cans of the solar system

10-31-2008, 10:52 AM	#1
TheMercenary “Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo” Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Savannah, Georgia Posts: 21,393	Hello Star Trek Fans Star Trek fans, take heart — Mr. Spock's fabled home star, the nearby Epsilon Eridani, could harbor an Earth-like planet. NASA astronomers today report that the triple-ringed star has an asteroid belt and a Jupiter-like giant planet in roughly the same orbits as in our own solar system. Only 850 million years old, a fifth the age of Earth's sun, Epsilon Eridani resembles a younger twin to our solar system. About 62 trillion miles away, it is the closest known solar system. http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science...ek-earth_N.htm __________________ Anyone but the this most fuked up President in History in 2012!

10-31-2008, 11:08 AM	#2
dar512 dar512 is now Pete Zicato Join Date: May 2003 Location: Chicago suburb Posts: 4,968	Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me (one of my favorite NPR programs) had Leonard Nimoy as a guest on a recent show. Funny guy. __________________ "Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain." -- Friedrich Schiller

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TheMercenary “Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo” Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Savannah, Georgia Posts: 21,393	I heard that, it was really good. I listen to that show a lot on the way home from work. __________________ Anyone but the this most fuked up President in History in 2012!

10-31-2008, 03:57 PM	#5
lumberjim I can hear my ears Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 25,571	It's kind of cool that we live in an age where we can imagine space travel, and meeting other civilizations and species of sentient beings......and believe it to be possible, by and large. And yet, we have not reached the age where we have killed each other off. kind of a sweet spot. __________________ This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality Embrace this moment, remember We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion ~MJKeenan

10-31-2008, 06:01 PM	#6
ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	@ LJ. I fear it may be a brief age. __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.

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SteveDallas Your Bartender Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Philly Burbs, PA Posts: 7,651	Maybe we can invite the Vulcans over for the premier of the new Star Trek movie next spring.

10-31-2008, 06:18 PM	#7
lumberjim I can hear my ears Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 25,571	given the exponential rate of our progress, i would expect so.....especially relative to the years leading up to the current age. in my gut....and working under the assumption of continued progress instead of Armageddon.... it seems like we are only maybe.....2-300 years away from interstellar travel. And once that happens, maybe like....oh.....6 months until we get eradicated by some advanced alien race. __________________ This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality Embrace this moment, remember We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion ~MJKeenan

11-04-2008, 09:18 PM	#8
deadbeater Sir Post-A-Lot Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 439	I think by the year 3000 we humans would be traveling at the speed of thought. Not as depicted on Futurama. I hope, I hope.

11-04-2008, 09:20 PM	#9
Aliantha trying hard to be a better person Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 16,493	I don't think we'll still be here by the year 4000. I predict a hungry end for the world. We should all stop breeding. __________________ Kind words are the music of the world. F. W. Faber

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11-04-2008, 10:22 PM	#11
Aliantha trying hard to be a better person Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 16,493	Yes, that was supposed to be the funny part mate. __________________ Kind words are the music of the world. F. W. Faber

11-04-2008, 10:34 PM	#12
DanaC We have to go back, Kate! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Yorkshire Posts: 25,964	It aint the breeding .....we should all stop driving :P

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SteveDallas Your Bartender Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Philly Burbs, PA Posts: 7,651	http://www.firstshowing.net/2008/10/...cast-and-more/

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Bruce 9012 Living in the blast crater Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Dayton, Oh Posts: 123	Any Solarsystem that would have a chance at life has to have a jupiter they are trash cans of the solar system

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