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re: NASA finds habitable planet – Kepler-186f – but don’t pack just yet
Posted on 4/18/14 at 10:06 am to Kentucker
Posted on 4/18/14 at 10:06 am to Kentucker
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Europeans weren't ready to mix with the first residents of the New World but that didn't slow them down. Given an ability to travel and colonize, humans will do it.
If, for example, we discover a way to travel via the quantum level, we will. That ability may prove to be real in the near future. Near being, at most, a few hundred years.
I know where the optimism comes from but keep in mind: We haven't even been able to land a person on Mars, let alone travel 3 trillion miles away. Mars is a 9 month trip and you have to think how far away we are with sustaining life -- let alone sustaining life at quantum levels.
We will need to adapt our bodies, ships and materials for that and we're no where -near- close. China could barely keep contact with its rover on the Moon and the United States is still the only country to land a rover anywhere else that's successful.
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Posted on 4/18/14 at 11:51 am to StrawsDrawnAtRandom
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I know where the optimism comes from but keep in mind: We haven't even been able to land a person on Mars, let alone travel 3 trillion miles away. Mars is a 9 month trip and you have to think how far away we are with sustaining life -- let alone sustaining life at quantum levels. We will need to adapt our bodies, ships and materials for that and we're no where -near- close. China could barely keep contact with its rover on the Moon and the United States is still the only country to land a rover anywhere else that's successful.
Physics at the quantum level is weirder than can be imagined. We are composed of quantum level particles so it's logical to think that quantum physics' laws can apply to us as "macroscopic" assemblages of particles.
For example, quantum computers are in the very early stages of development. Their distinct advantage over digital computers? Processing ability on the order of the human brain. In fact, many scientists think our brains are quantum computers.
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