3 super earths discovered nearby

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Spanky the Leprechaun wrote:

Well, a robot body means 22 light years at .1 c (conservative estimate) or 200 years of travel in a bussard ramjet give or take isn't too much of a time waster; you just put your brain on hibernate and wake up to sexy sexy peace.

Unfortunately...I've read that 'Bremsstrahlung' radiation caused by the ship passing through the interstellar hydrogen will effectively create too much drag for a pure Bussard ramjet to be practical.

Which is not to say that scooping interstellar hydrogen to extend on board fuel as one does zoom across the galaxy is out of the question, of course. But said ship will be bigger because it will need a lot of on board fuel.

[BigNorseWolf]

either cryogenic freezing or just being able to stop the aging process should do it. Honestly i don't know why stopping aging isn't something that gets more research.

[cmastah]

Cranefist wrote:

The only life as we know it that could be on those planets would be under water.

Woohoo, can't meet mind flayers but at least we'll meet the Aboleth!

Hey, could this be us approaching Earthfall? o.O

[BigNorseWolf]

In golarion earthfall approach you!

[Orthos]

BigNorseWolf wrote:

either cryogenic freezing or just being able to stop the aging process should do it. Honestly i don't know why stopping aging isn't something that gets more research.

Honestly, because it likely just plain isn't possible. Slowing it likely is - given the extension of the expected human lifespan within the past two to three centuries, just from superior living conditions and health maintenance alone - but completely stopping it is likely beyond the realms of possible reality.

[LazarX]

BigNorseWolf wrote:

either cryogenic freezing or just being able to stop the aging process should do it. Honestly i don't know why stopping aging isn't something that gets more research.

Because the only known method of stopping aging as far as science is concerned... is death. Hibernation is NOT suspended animation despite what the trash science shows may tend to infer. You can't stop and start living processes any more than you can freeze and thaw an ocean wave.

Cryogenic freezing for all the sensationalism, and the decades of money thrown at it, really hasn't gotten that far beyond what you do at home in freezing cold meat. At best the only thing that cryonics can promise you at present is the possibility of creating a clone from your preserved remains. All that would be would be someone that would be a genetic twin to you.... but it would not be YOU.

[Icyshadow]

Some animals can revert to earlier stages of maturity, you know.