If we found a habitable moon orbiting a super Jupiter orbiting a Sunlike star 30 light years away what would happen next?
So we did it it we found an Earth like moon orbiting a gas giant around the habitable zone sunlike star. The moon has 60 percent Earth diameter with 20 percent Earths mass and an Earth like atmosphere where we can detect a significant amount of oxygen. The moon gets 90 percent the sunlight Earth does. What would be...
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vorenhutz say: Consider that that distance is a bit under 2 million times further away from the Earth than the sun, now what do you think?
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Ronald 7 say: Load up the Bus, we are going
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Angel Mendez say: not much it would be in the new for about a year
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Jeffrey K say: There would be an article about that moon in Astronomy magazine and National Geographic. Maybe an episode on Nova about it.
Plans to travel there? Not a chance! Not for centuries! 40 light years is a long way. It would take about 800,000 years to get there with our technology.
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Paula say: We would not know any of that stuff.
We may surmise it, but we not know it for certain.
We would need to send a robot probe there to check what the conditions actually are..
So we would need a VERY rapid space craft.
Maybe 10% of the speed of light.
That would still take 300 years to get there
So we would also need a power source that could last for at least 300 years.
If we had both of those things right now, we could get answers to our questions in 300 + 30 = 330 years.
Then it would be up to the people who are alive in 330 years to decide on the next step.
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Jim say: I would want to know if someone was actually living there.
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Chris Ancor say: The astronomers would then start to look for another one.
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Starrysky say: Even thermonuclear ramjet like the Bussard could only attain 25% of light speed. It would take over 120 years (8 to get up to speed, 100 to travel, and 13 to slow) to get to that star/planet/moon system. Way too long, even if somehow that super fast drive could be developed and launched. The people in it could not be active that whole time. Maybe they could sleep almost the whole way?
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Joan H say: The next step would be to invent a way to travel faster than the speed of light. 30+ years is simply to long a time to have to travel to get there.
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Iridflare say: I think the general response would be along the lines of "That's nice dear. More tea?" .
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Acetek say: nothing. we can't get there until we develop a faster than light drive
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Bill-M say: 30 Light years away?? Impossible to get there.
the fastest space craft we have would take 32,000 years to go just ONE Light year.
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Bill say: Mostly several scientific articles analyzing the moon, a couple weeks of newspaper distorted articles published,, and a few bloggers trying to earn a living off their speculation. After that, not much as we're not going there with present technology.
If you're designing this moon, might consider upping the mass a bit. Seems low for its gravity to hold an atmosphere.
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