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This is a link post This just in: There's a planet in the habitable zone of Proxima Centauri
Looks like the ESO (European South Observatory in Chile - yes, the name is stupid) have found an Earth-sized planet in the habitable zone of our nearest neighbour just four-and-a-bit light years away.

To give you an idea of how "near", the Voyager spacecraft should get to that distance in roughly 70,000 years from now.

...give or take.

Edit: feel free to dispute my maths. Long work day: brain insufficient.
(, Wed 24 Aug 2016, 18:10, , Reply)
This is a normal post 4 lights years? Should not take long in an Opel Manta coupé spacecraft.
Oh wait...

Edit: Did the layout for lifting an oil platform's jacket today (the legs bit).
Ce COG is nowhere near it's geometric centre and not close to the centre of the 4 loadsa tonnes shackles.
1800 tons of fun.
Just to say that I've done enough static today (see kids, it's useful), to not even try dividing 299 792 458 by 3600 and then by (105*0.6214) and multiplying the result by 4.
Not a fucking chance.
(, Wed 24 Aug 2016, 18:15, , Reply)
This is a normal post Which platform?

(, Thu 25 Aug 2016, 12:45, , Reply)
This is a normal post For a tender.
It's 1800 tons with fucking big mudmats.
(, Fri 26 Aug 2016, 19:04, , Reply)
This is a normal post Your maths is good.
It'd only take Voyager I 75 thousand years to get there. That's assuming it was headed in that direction, and wasn't expected to fail within the next 20 years.
(, Thu 25 Aug 2016, 3:20, , Reply)
This is a normal post haha
I don't know why we are even looking until we have an effective means of transportation that won't require thousands of generations of humans to just get there and find out it's void of life.
(, Thu 25 Aug 2016, 7:01, , Reply)
This is a normal post I hope it's filled with some of the monstrosities I have seen in no mans sky

(, Thu 25 Aug 2016, 8:27, , Reply)
This is a normal post giant chicken monsters?
and elephants with butterfly wings?
(, Thu 25 Aug 2016, 15:10, , Reply)
This is a normal post maybe
knowing there's a planet there will inspire people to work harder on making interstellar travel possible?
(, Thu 25 Aug 2016, 10:33, , Reply)
This is a normal post put it like this
if it takes so long to get to another planet we have to rely on babies being born in space, it's already a failed journey. I very much doubt you could get a 0g baby to adulthood and then dump them on a planet with Earth-like gravity, it would probably crush their internal organs.
(, Thu 25 Aug 2016, 15:09, , Reply)
This is a normal post How do you even start to design a vehicle
if you don't know where it has to get to?
(, Thu 25 Aug 2016, 12:48, , Reply)
This is a normal post fuck knows

(, Thu 25 Aug 2016, 15:08, , Reply)