[meteorite-list] '100 percent' chance for life on newly foundplanet?

[Thunder Stone]

Why not send a probe - like a time bottle - would take many 1000's of years, but it would be really cool if we did.  Maybe a way to get a lot of countries to unite on a common venture - we could call the probe "The Enterprise"

Greg S.

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> From: clp at alumni.caltech.edu
> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 11:12:08 -0600
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] '100 percent' chance for life on newly foundplanet?
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> Although an exploration mission certainly is not going to happen anytime in
> the next few decades or longer, it wouldn't require an unrealistic advance
> in propulsion technology to get a small spacecraft that distance in a fairly
> reasonable time- say a couple hundred years. You don't need to travel the
> speed of light.
>
> Chris
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> Chris L Peterson
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steve Dunklee" 
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> Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2010 10:58 AM
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> foundplanet?
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> > Gee only 20 light years away. Since it would take an infinite amount of
> > energy to accelerate a small mass to the speed of light. I guess the
> > world may never know!
>
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