Outer Space Thread

[pioneer98]

Kind of a neat article detailing one of the exoplanet systems we've found. It's a lot like ours, has a gas giant very similar in size and orbit to Jupiter.
http://sen.com/phil-plait/alien-worlds- ... nd-mundane

[jim]

3D map the universe(or a third of it anyway), coming your way soon...

http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article ... -in-3-d-hd

[cardsfansince82]

Anybody going to watch the meteor shower tonight? A coworker said it could be one of the best ever.

[IMADreamer]

Anybody going to watch the meteor shower tonight? A coworker said it could be one of the best ever.

I want to but as of right now it's cloudy. Hoping that goes away.

[go birds]

cloudy here too

[Freed Roger]

Rats. Nothin,

[Mary1966]

http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/12/tech/inno ... ?hpt=hp_t2

Thanks to a NASA physicist, the notion of warp speed might just travel out of sci-fi and into the real world.

NASA's Harold White has been working since 2010 to develop a warp drive that will allow spacecraft to travel at speeds faster than light -- 186,000 miles per second.

White, who heads NASA's Advanced Propulsion Team, spoke about his conceptual starship at a conference last fall. But interest in his project reached a new level this week when he unveiled images of what the craft might look like.

[AdmiralKird]

That ship is seriously sexy.

[IMADreamer]

That is an interesting craft.

[go birds]

and it would take matter that has yet to be discovered with a mass of only that of a satellite to put that baby in warp drive!