Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
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1st Direct Photo of Extrasolar Planet

... is a dot. But it's an awesome dot. Huzzah for the dot!

*wist* I want to visit the dot.
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  • 9 comments
fayanora

fayanora

July 17 2010, 03:54:08 UTC 10 years ago

"We're sorry, but there is no SPACE.com Web page that matches your entry. It is possible you typed the address incorrectly, or the page may no longer exist. You may wish to try another entry or choose from the links below, which we hope will help you find what you’re looking for."
ysabetwordsmith

Fixed!

ysabetwordsmith

July 17 2010, 04:04:15 UTC 10 years ago

Link should work now.
fayanora

Re: Fixed!

fayanora

July 17 2010, 05:17:47 UTC 10 years ago

As an official representative of my species, I must protest your people spying on us. Sure, all you can see is a dot, but at this rate, in 20 years you'll be able to watch us in the shower!
wcg

wcg

July 17 2010, 03:56:21 UTC 10 years ago

You're missing an l at the very end of that link. It should be html, and not htm.

I wouldn't want to visit an 8x Jupiter mass world. Far too much of a gravitational field for humans, and quite likely far too much electromagnetic field too. (Jupiter's EM field would kill any unshielded human who got inside the orbit of Ganymede.) Let's wait a few more years for the Kepler mission results when we'll have several nice Earth sized candidates orbiting Sun-like stars.
ysabetwordsmith

*sigh*

ysabetwordsmith

July 17 2010, 04:06:03 UTC 10 years ago

I fixed the link.

The body I'm wearing wouldn't even tolerate being hauled out of Earth's gravity well. This does not stop me from wanting to go places. Happily, I am a speculative fiction writer, so I'm not restricted to bodily travel.
fayanora

Re: *sigh*

fayanora

July 17 2010, 05:25:16 UTC 10 years ago

In a short story dealing with an alternate universe wherein humans go extinct before the Xazis War has a chance to happen, the people of Traipah use a form of technology almost like magic to make Jumper's Gates that allow instantaneous travel from one planet to another. They also have ships, but for those who want to go from the homeworld to one of the colonized planets (or planets with friendly natives), the Jumper's Gate is the way to travel. And they're big enough you can take LOTS of cargo with you. So ships are only for exploration or planetary defense (Ah'Koi Bahnis don't wage war anymore), or traveling to worlds without a Jumper's Gate.
the_vulture

the_vulture

July 17 2010, 07:52:02 UTC 10 years ago

Kewl beanz!
raindrops

raindrops

July 17 2010, 09:52:19 UTC 10 years ago

I've wanted to visit that dot since I was a wee bairn.

At least I got to see it.
siliconshaman

siliconshaman

July 17 2010, 11:57:43 UTC 10 years ago Edited:  July 17 2010, 11:58:30 UTC

Hmm...it would be interesting to speculate what worlds might be orbiting that dot [well, world-sized moons technically]. Although it's much further from it's little yellow star than we are, it's hot enough to be radiating a lot of infra-red.

Imagine a world of perpetual darkness... at least to our eyes.