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Re:NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to E... by Falcon9 on Thursday July 23, 2015 @02:00PM (#9937400)
My favorite thought is that they've sent probes millions of years ago and we could send a request to watch some HD surveillance of dinosaurs roaming the Earth. It'll just take ~3k years to receive the requested footage.
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Re:NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to E... by anon4 on Thursday July 23, 2015 @02:14PM (#9937483)
Not if you board a spaceship and travel to them at close to light speed! Then you, personally, would just wait a few hours.
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Re:NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to E... by raphaelj on Thursday July 23, 2015 @08:02PM (#9939265)
You're right about the idea, but a few hours is way too short, because of how the Human body tolerance to strong accelerations.

Assuming an acceleration of 10 m/s^2 (similar to Earth's gravity), it will takes roughly one year to accelerate to a speed close to the speed of light were relativistic effects occurs, and you will need one more year to decelerate.

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Re:NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to E... by 33W on Thursday July 23, 2015 @03:20PM (#9937879)
Once again, it will be easier to bring people to the data, than data to people.
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