Nipate
Forum => Kenya Discussion => Topic started by: Kim Jong-Un's Pajama Pants on August 26, 2016, 03:26:14 PM
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The nearest star to the sun has a rocky planet.
At a distance of 1.295 parsecs1, the red dwarf Proxima Centauri (? Centauri C, GL 551, HIP 70890 or simply Proxima) is the Sun’s closest stellar neighbour and one of the best-studied low-mass stars. It has an effective temperature of only around 3,050 kelvin, a luminosity of 0.15 per cent of that of the Sun, a measured radius of 14 per cent of the radius of the Sun2 and a mass of about 12 per cent of the mass of the Sun. Although Proxima is considered a moderately active star, its rotation period is about 83 days (ref. 3) and its quiescent activity levels and X-ray luminosity4 are comparable to those of the Sun. Here we report observations that reveal the presence of a small planet with a minimum mass of about 1.3 Earth masses orbiting Proxima with a period of approximately 11.2 days at a semi-major-axis distance of around 0.05 astronomical units. Its equilibrium temperature is within the range where water could be liquid on its surface5.
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v536/n7617/full/nature19106.html
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What I find extremely freaky is Kepler has only searched a really tinny tiny part of our galaxy and has found so many exo-planets so far.
(http://www.spaceflightinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/k2_microlensing_search_area_milkyway-zoom.jpeg)
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Yep. To top it up...Kepler's method is biased towards a subset of stars whose orientation towards the sun permits their planets to be detected by the transit method. Put another way, there is a whole lot of other stars, within Kepler's field of view that will not be included even though they too may have their own planets.
It's safe to say the galaxy is teaming with planets. Possibly running in the trillions.
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Fascinating stuff. 8)
You know I reckon there's a code in the universe that has catalogued or patterned every planet in the way of like some statistical bell curve. Like sand we could approximate how many planets based on density, size etc. or maybe this is what they've already done and now just searching for evidence to validate these theories.
History has shown every undiscovered continent had native populaces. I wonder if this to be the case with planets. Native populaces not necessarily in human form but just underdeveloped.
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Fascinating stuff. 8)
You know I reckon there's a code in the universe that has catalogued or patterned every planet in the way of like some statistical bell curve. Like sand we could approximate how many planets based on density, size etc. or maybe this is what they've already done and now just searching for evidence to validate these theories.
History has shown every undiscovered continent had native populaces. I wonder if this to be the case with planets. Native populaces not necessarily in human form but just underdeveloped.
Maybe we have found the LGM (little Green Men) or probably a xenomorph (https://www.google.com/?client=ubuntu#q=xenomorph&channel=fs) in our cosmic neighborhood:
An Interesting SETI Candidate in Hercules
by PAUL GILSTER on AUGUST 27, 2016
A candidate signal for SETI is a welcome sign that our efforts in that direction may one day pay off. An international team of researchers has announced the detection of “a strong signal in the direction of HD164595” in a document now being circulated through contact person Alexander Panov. The detection was made with the RATAN-600 radio telescope in Zelenchukskaya, in the Karachay–Cherkess Republic of Russia, not far from the border with Georgia in the Caucasus.
The signal was received on May 15, 2015, 18:01:15.65 (sidereal time), at a wavelength of 2.7 cm. The estimated amplitude of the signal is 750 mJy.
No one is claiming that this is the work of an extraterrestrial civilization, but it is certainly worth further study. Working out the strength of the signal, the researchers say that if it came from an isotropic beacon, it would be of a power possible only for a Kardashev Type II civilization. If it were a narrow beam signal focused on our Solar System, it would be of a power available to a Kardashev Type I civilization. The possibility of noise of one form or another cannot be ruled out, and researchers in Paris led by Jean Schneider are considering the possible microlensing of a background source by HD164595. But the signal is provocative enough that the RATAN-600 researchers are calling for permanent monitoring of this target.
More.... (http://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=36248)
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A reoccurring lucid dream I have is travelling extremely fast through space, to what feels like several galaxies, past spiritual entities wondering around the cosmos. Some faster than others, some not making past certain stratospheres, some not supposed to be there like me. In some sense it felt like a parallel dimension but just so huge, I don't think there's a word yet to describe that huge vastness. Death could just be some transition into another form that can travel faster through time that isn't like "time" as we understand time, and without space. Maybe in that next form we have the perceptions to see other worldly entities and travel far into the cosmos. The question is there's got to be some portal somewhere, somehow leaking if you may or else we would not be left with clues like arriving at moments of discovery, science, that civilization evolved from star stuff.