Out of Pod Experience

I'll get to writing up a cook book right away!

Given the probable gravity there as it's built like earth but 7x the mass, we'd need powered exosuits just to even walk there anyhow....I'd be scared shitless of what might be living there just for that alone, as if( huge if) there is something resembling humans there, they'd make the winners of mister olympia bodybuilding contests look like scrawny like kids by comparison.



Imagine bigger species living in the oceans there like a whale....On earth it can weigh 30 tons, other there it would weigh 210 tons so it's just a slight difference really...

Hence why there's things on earth that we still don't fully understand yet like the dolphin and whale example, yet both are being hunted down to near extinction because some hold on to the belief that organs extracted from either species will cure them of something that makes them sick, or simply give them a bigger erection....



So with said planet 44 light years away, and us with all our problems right now i don't think that we'll have to worry about colonizing any other planet anytime soon.....We got ourselfves into this mess, we got to get ourselves out of it even if it means making very difficult decisions that we don't want to make.



I am impressed by the scientists that found this planet, specifically that it's 44 light years away and they managed to conclude that it rotates on it's own axis so it has a day and night cycle, wich is pretty impressive given the distance involved.

Fermi paradox has many variations to it and assumes we have the technology to communicate with whatever is out there( if something is out there, even if we limit ourselves to just our galaxy at 100 000 light years across), and actually expect an answer back within our lifetimes.


Even if we sent a radio signal to that planet they just discovered it would take pretty close to 100 years for it to get to the planet, get understood by whatever intelligent life there may be( if any), and sent back to us.....The answer won't come quickly and we need a whole new level of technology to make it in a lot less time.


As for food production and starvation, how much does the population have to increase before the planet simply can't produce enough food for everyone....We already use pesticides, insecticides, fertilizers and even genetically modified fruits and vegetables that grow faster in less time, and the same goes for animals we grow wich are packed with growth hormones to make them develop quicker too.


If you want totally natural, home grown food with nothing of the above, you'll have to grown it yourself but it will take extra time for it and the crop yields won't be as good......I remember once a long time ago( about 30 years ago in fact) eating a chicken dinner made by my farther's aunt wich had a small farm back then, and all that chicken ate was whole grain, lettuce, carrots wich also were naturally grown.....It was the best chicken i ever ate in my whole life, nothing in supermarkets or restaurants even compares to it.




So if we're doing this with 7 billion on the planet, how many more do you think it can sustain in realistic terms.....10 billion, perhaps 15 billion people wich we might reach well before the end of this century perhaps?...The planet can only handle so much as it's resources are finite and we're consuming them faster than they can regenerate even right now, so you can imagine when we're twice as many

I'm kind of hoping that other worlds are more advanced and waiting for us to get our act together before making contact lest they have to deal a heinous smackdown and make us into house pets.


Since that planet has greater mass, if there is intelligent life there, the physical strength of the beings is going to be huge, meaning bigger weapons and armor.


Still, no doubt the OP has valid concerns because earth has two features that make these concerns possible:

1. no shortage of idiots who think that anyone not like them is either too dumb (the left) or too evil (the right) to survive and therefore needs to be ruled by them, and hence they will go like cannon fodder to war.
2. people will flock to that planet to live there and fight the natives rather than take up arms against the establishment that makes our present world such a shithole. That's human nature and why I would justify any existing alliance in space ready to squash us flat if we discover warp drive before cleaning our own house first.

We wouldn't need warp drive anyhow, as there's already nuclear thermal reactors wich became a possiblity once we had nuclear power plants, and the last reaserch on them stopped in the 1980's.....Ignite a few of those for roughly 5 hours and the ship wolud doing 1 million km/h per hour wich is enough to travel to any point in our solar system in a reasonable amount of time( between a few days to a few weeks for the longest trips).


It's basically 30x faster than using conventional rockets and it's sitting on the shelves with nothing being done to either improve the design to make it faster still while using less fuel.

It points out that if there were alien life, the probability is too great that either they would have already contacted us directly, or that we would have already detected alien artifacts even within our own solar system. And that even some of these artifacts could be viewable from our solar systems such as alin systems using dyson spheres constructed by class II or class III civilizations. This also takes into consideration the important ingredient of "time". If the universe is as old as speculated, then advanced civilizations would have already risen long before ours and we would see or hear of these ancient civilizations, they would be expansive as well as detectable as previously mentioned. Even if they came to extinction, their foot print would remain.

That is even if the universe is that old. We are just too small to know imo. Our science is rudimentary and often driven by non-scientific influences, manipulative, political and that of purist academia with an agenda backed by awarded grants to those that comply to the determined general census. Yet there is hope as not all fall to the lure of huge manipulative grants, though are often ostracized for non-compliance yet pursue the field of understanding. But thanks to those that are fielding in quantum mechanics and digital physics, I think we are far closer to the truth than ever before.

Like I said, it's regarding governments, as I do believe that the planet could easily support two or even three times the current population. But due to corruption, it's not currently possible, nor allowed.

lol yeah it didn't like my link to google with the search phrase "the universe is digital". Replaced it with a wikipedia link.

I'm sure any Extra-terrestrial life would be truly impressed with humanity if they were reading this.

There is nothing to indicate that the planet actually has life on it; only indication that it is in the right zone to have that possibility. Apparently, some 4-6 of these planets have been discovered, with this one being some 44 LY away, and by no means properly identified as anything but a large planet. They may not even know what type of surface environment it has, or even have the ability to speculate on it.

I'm sure if someone did a proper model, they could actually determine potential atmosphere, (if any), composition, etc.. They haven't so far as I am aware. Either way, they indicate the Star is an Old Dwarf, which means it is entering or nearing the last phases of it's cycle.

Our Sun is considerably younger than that, which means that this Star is potentially capable of having a habitable, life-bearing planet that is much older than ours. That also means that any life there has had much longer to evolve and develop technologically.

Anyway.. 44 LY = 432'457'525'486'800 km. That's approximately 1.23 million years at 40'000 km/h. Better hope we can bend space.

Watch this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjIlqrAfbbg