Luke and Co. a Mere 600 Million Km Away!

Cromag · Post by **Cromag** » 2002-09-06 05:35pm

Pack yer bags, folks, a far better place awaits us!

http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/space/09/0 ... index.html

Yeah, we've apparently known about it since the '50s, but it's still one cool pic.

Plus, I don't know if the size has always been known.

Solid Snake · Post by **Solid Snake** » 2002-09-06 06:18pm

Cool! I will become an explorer, randomly jumping through systems.

Falkenhorst · Post by **Falkenhorst** » 2002-09-07 12:47am

kickass. I'd like to write a fanfic set in that galaxy.

Wicked Pilot · Post by **Wicked Pilot** » 2002-09-07 01:57am

Hubble kicks ass!

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2002-09-07 02:03am

The is strange enough to make me want to campaign for a new Hubble, with a 100 meter lenses just to get a better look. Screw the multi billion-dollar price tag, any one who objects will be allowed to see the galaxy first hand, after I fire them into orbit with my converted 16/50

Post by **Dalton** » 2002-09-07 03:23am

Holy shit!

Post by **Mr Bean** » 2002-09-07 08:18am

100 Meters?

No no

200 Meters!

The project shall begin next week and I want it in orbit in six months

Falkenhorst · Post by **Falkenhorst** » 2002-09-07 10:38am

hell yeah! and I know how we'll raise the funds... just cancel all those separation operations for guatemalan siamese twins and jack up arms sales to 3rd world nations and reap the revenues, while legalizing Mary J and other forms of dope and taxing the shit out of em, HEH HEH HEH!

GoneCrazy · Post by **GoneCrazy** » 2002-09-07 11:54am

it'd be awesome to get bigger hubble. but wouldn't it be better to put that funding into making better spaceships and trying to figure out how a hyperdrive works?

Falkenhorst · Post by **Falkenhorst** » 2002-09-07 12:05pm

man, hyperdrive is way in the future, if it's even possible. I'm sure there's loads of people here who know more than I do who will be happy to explain to you at length why it wouldn't work in Real Life.

GoneCrazy · Post by **GoneCrazy** » 2002-09-07 12:08pm

u mean hyperdrive don't work?

Falkenhorst · Post by **Falkenhorst** » 2002-09-07 12:13pm

I'm saying it'll take us a long time to figure out how something like it would work. We won't really start working on stuff like that in anything more than theory until we've colonized other planets via sleeper ships or something, and we need some kind of FTL drive to speed up interstellar commerce.

Evil Jerk · Post by **Evil Jerk** » 2002-09-07 03:00pm

Thanks to governments that care only for money and power, we haven't even gone past the moon, let alone getting FTL drive if it's at all possible.
But I want to go to other galaxies now! NOW NOW NOW NOW NOW!!!

RayCav of ASVS · Post by **RayCav of ASVS** » 2002-09-07 03:07pm

Dalton wrote:Holy shit!

Holy Shit is right......

Singular Quartet · Post by **Singular Quartet** » 2002-09-07 05:57pm

Now that qualifies as neat!

gravity · Post by **gravity** » 2002-09-08 02:51am

That's 600 million *light-years*, not 600 million Km. 600 million Km is only about 200 light-seconds, or less than the distance from Earth to Mars. Interesting article, though

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gravity · Post by **gravity** » 2002-09-08 02:53am

Sorry, that's 2000 light seconds, but it's still much less than the width of the solar system :p.

SPOOFE · Post by **SPOOFE** » 2002-09-08 05:40am

It took the entire first page for someone to notice the difference between lightyears and kilometers? What are we, a buncha Trekkies?

SPOOFE · Post by **SPOOFE** » 2002-09-08 05:43am

By the way, for people who don't mind downloading a big picture (403 kb): http://imgsrc.stsci.edu/op/pubinfo/PR/2 ... c/0221.jpg

Post by **Mr Bean** » 2002-09-08 08:18am

Sorry SPOOFE I was to busy designing my 200 KM Lensensed Telescope

Cromag · Post by **Cromag** » 2002-09-09 01:57pm

Thanks, Gravity, I will blame my complete idiocy on the excitement I felt at seeing the thing, but that don't fly, I was a science major, after all.

Oh for the ability to edit the thread...or turn back time...

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2002-09-09 03:10pm

Mr Bean wrote:Sorry SPOOFE I was to busy designing my 200 KM Lensensed Telescope

Nearly as Insane as my intergalactic sniper scope which is backlit with the sun..

Post by **Mr Bean** » 2002-09-09 03:24pm

Nearly as Insane as my intergalactic sniper scope which is backlit with the sun..

Waaaaa... What now? TALK!

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