I wonder what would happen if HL3 was announced tomorrow
Wut? Where?Something was leaked a few days ago.
It's comming...
It takers a real gangsta to film yourself next to a sport car when the seller is in the bathroom
But look at his swag! (or swagger?)
I read in the newspaper today that "swag" is the new fashion word amongst teenagers in vienna these days. I have no idea what it is supposed to mean.
Well, we have great newspapers, don
Konigstiger II IPA is coming along nicely. OG is 1.077, projected to finish at 1.020. ~7.5% abv
SMELLS LIKE VICTORY.
Saw this a few days ago
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16040655
Discovering earth-like planets is all good but the main problem will always be the distance. Unless scientists discover major break-throughs in space travel going to a planet like that will take around 200 milion years.
However, sending fully automatic voyager-like probes to such planets might be completely useless for us but if such a planet has intelligent life (in 200 milion years) think about the impact that probe might have when it lands on one of those planets. Probably in 200 milion years humans will have gone for a long time but we would give that planet certainty that there is (was) alien life. Ontop of that our species won't be completely forgotten.
I don't think the the main motivation for scientists is to find habitable planets so some day someone can send a space ship with settlers up there.
Main reasons for that are:
Faster than light travel will most likely never be possible.
The idea that humans can destroy the earth is simply hubris. So there is actually no need for a "back up" planet which then can be destroyed too.
If there is intelligent life out there, why do you assume humans will be extinct when the probe arrives at their planet and not the other way around?
The main research goal for as I understand is that the scientist want to understand how a solar system forms, what type of planets are there, their distribution etc. There is only one solar system we know fairly well (not too well actually) and it seems to be rather unusual and special but maybe it is not, we simply don't know. Looking for a second earth simply makes good headlines (aka money for research).