New Planet Found in Our Solar System

MrElve said:
Oh dayum. Turns out I mis-read something. Either way, It took it about what, 25-30 years?

There wouldn't be any point in sending a nuke up unless;

A) It was closer
B) It was a threat

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Not that long, 12 years apparently (voyager 2)
Voyager 1 is over 17.9billion kilometres from the sun
Neptune is "only" 4.5billion km from sun.

But yes it's pointless. Fascinating that some time in the next 2years (estimated) that a man made probe will leave the solar system and enter interstellar space. That should send back some good data.
 
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MrElve said:
LOL? And what will that achieve? Tons of little (or possibly big) meteorites just flying around the inside of our solar system. Nevertheless, that thing is further than pluto.. Even the Voyager 1 hasn't even reached Neptune yet, let alone pluto! And that thing has been going for 33 years!

EDIT: Turns out I mis-read something about Voyager 1's distance as incorrectly stated above ^. My bad.
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Just to see how does a nuke go bang in space. :D
 
Nitefly said:
I don't care what anyone says, Pluto is still a planet. Scientific fact.
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Umm?
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trigger-happy said:
Just to see how does a nuke go bang in space. :D
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IE it doesnt.

It would be a really small orb of neutron radiation and other associated elements blasting away.

It may dent an asteroid slightly, but for any real impact, you would need to find a nice tight hole, wedge it in REAL tight, then blast your load and bask in your destruction.

;)
 
Glaucus said:
Disagree, space exploration is vital. And lucrative. We allready have a huge space sector which continues to grow, it needs to be growen. So we can reap the rewards in a couple of decades. We are on the cusp of a private funded space race. We need to be at the forefront. The Skylon project for example has the ability to basaicaly kill off all other launch pads/rockets over night. if we (uk) own it or keep it in our borders. That is huge amounts of profit and thus tax.
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Not only that there must be huge amounts of money to be made in research and development along with the mining of asteroids etc for new and old materials.
 
Glaucus said:
Disagree, space exploration is vital. And lucrative. We allready have a huge space sector which continues to grow, it needs to be growen. So we can reap the rewards in a couple of decades. We are on the cusp of a private funded space race. We need to be at the forefront. The Skylon project for example has the ability to basaicaly kill off all other launch pads/rockets over night. if we (uk) own it or keep it in our borders. That is huge amounts of profit and thus tax.
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Yes agree,It's like the James Webb Telescope Expected To Cost $8.7 Billion and people are up in arms about the cost but look at the benefits it will bring to the human race to learn even more about the cosmos.
If it wasn't for space exploration we wouldn't have the things we take for granted in everyday living.
 
Sorry but why is this news*?

This has been hypothesised for a few years now, all this study does is give us a bit more evidence. Then again this thread was started by badcompany... :p

* yes, I know why it is news to national geographic, justly why big news to us?:D
 
AH, I understand your support of space travel. However the figures quoted are untested and unproved. I can't help but feel right now, that we ought to leave space travel/exploration in the hands of private companies and let them drive research and bear the brunt of costly experiments.

Set us up as a country that welcomes space industry through tax breaks and what not, but to fund it centrally? It'll never work.

And as for mining asteroids, lol. What utter nonsense.
 
Spook187 said:
Yes agree,It's like the James Webb Telescope Expected To Cost $8.7 Billion and people are up in arms about the cost but look at the benefits it will bring to the human race to learn even more about the cosmos.
If it wasn't for space exploration we wouldn't have the things we take for granted in everyday living.
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Moot point, nobody cares what the majority of morons think, the rest of us are busy advancing the species.
 
Spook187 said:
Yes agree,It's like the James Webb Telescope Expected To Cost $8.7 Billion and people are up in arms about the cost but look at the benefits it will bring to the human race to learn even more about the cosmos.
If it wasn't for space exploration we wouldn't have the things we take for granted in everyday living.
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Genuinely curious, but what benefits are there to learning more about the cosmos, and what are the things we take for granted?

Perhaps I'm a bit uneducated, but exploring space further at this point doesn't seem much more beneficial than mapping our ocean floor.
 
I disagree with everyone trying to throw out the "fact" that Pluto is or should be a planet.

Planets are formed by a gravitational force pulling in debris from its surroundings to create what starts as a large ball of molten rock/metal in the case of a solid planet - ofcourse for gaseous planets like Jupiter it's quite different.
Since Pluto did not undergo these circumstances (since it's not big enough to do so) then it is not a planet. Its correct term is dwarf planet since it has an orbit and isn't small enough to be classed as an asteroid or comet.
 
Emphacy said:
I disagree with everyone trying to throw out the "fact" that Pluto is or should be a planet.

Planets are formed by a gravitational force pulling in debris from its surroundings to create what starts as a large ball of molten rock/metal in the case of a solid planet - ofcourse for gaseous planets like Jupiter it's quite different.
Since Pluto did not undergo these circumstances (since it's not big enough to do so) then it is not a planet. Its correct term is dwarf planet since it has an orbit and isn't small enough to be classed as an asteroid or comet.
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And if it were found now it wouldn't be a planet. However I don't see the harm in having it as a planet still, even if everybody from this point onwards is told that it's not really one.
 
Ahleckz said:
AH, I understand your support of space travel. However the figures quoted are untested and unproved. I can't help but feel right now, that we ought to leave space travel/exploration in the hands of private companies and let them drive research and bear the brunt of costly experiments.

Set us up as a country that welcomes space industry through tax breaks and what not, but to fund it centrally? It'll never work.

And as for mining asteroids, lol. What utter nonsense.
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Not centrally funded. More a cross between of ESA and money incentives for green energy. It doesn't need to be run in a NASA type of way. The idea would be support and grow the private sector. Not have a government controlled department.


Actually NASA is a good example, funding for there n+2/3/4 type projects. Where central funds are used to help private companies expand the technology we require in the future.


What's wrong with space mining? I would say its almost certainly going to happen, it is avert long way off then. But that's what the group off billionairs are planning, they are talking several decades in the future. But want to put money u for research into the technology that would be needed.
 
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Nitefly said:
Genuinely curious, but what benefits are there to learning more about the cosmos, and what are the things we take for granted?

Perhaps I'm a bit uneducated, but exploring space further at this point doesn't seem much more beneficial than mapping our ocean floor.
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I see your point about the ocean floor,look at the benefits of Space Technology,we have telecommunication,Liquid Crystal Display Panels that were used in the Space Shuttle Program hence why we have them today in our living rooms etc,resources on this planet will run out one day whether we like it or not we have to learn more about other planets to mine/live on.
 
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