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xNaquada t1_jdahwqu wrote

Reply to comment by likmbch in A New Mission Will Search for Habitable Planets at Alpha Centauri by Aeromarine_eng

I'm not debating that it would be incredible data, but if we're doing a 16 year journey where data is coming back, then it would be absolutely foolish to not get images -- New Horizons showed us so much of Pluto, and that was early 2000's tech. We're 2 decades ahead of that now.

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likmbch t1_jdaidtq wrote

Yeah…. But… you know Alpha Centauri is a LOT farther, right?

It’s about 6900 times farther to Alpha Centauri than to Pluto.

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xNaquada t1_jdak21a wrote

Yes, of course. What is your point?

We're commenting in a chain of a theoretical probe that doesn't exist and imagining how awesome it would be.

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likmbch t1_jdal70y wrote

Because you brought up how long ago new horizons was as if that is some indicator of our ability to transmit images back from Alpha Centauri.

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xNaquada t1_jdalrci wrote

I brought it up as an indicator of what the images of Pluto looked like with 200x era tech (quite good). So imagine what we could get even now (+16years+signal back time).

>Even if the data we got back weren’t images of the planets there and just basic data, that would be so incredible.

It had nothing to do with the ability -- given we're talking about a theoretical probe that will transmit data back, I had made the same assumption as you did (context of the reply) in that data would indeed come back.

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likmbch t1_jdam2m9 wrote

Why would you send a probe without a data stream coming back?

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xNaquada t1_jdao0x8 wrote

Why would you ask if someone didn't know that a different star is a lot farther than an object in our solar system?

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likmbch t1_jdao9dv wrote

Because you are saying stupid things. Didn’t want to assume

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xNaquada t1_jdapxjx wrote

😂 I think you're just mad because you couldn't be smug and decided to immaturely lash out.

Find your way off the internet before you waste more time manufacturing friction where none existed.

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likmbch t1_jdaqy38 wrote

Huh, I’ve never met a smug person before.

And I imagine you like manufacturing friction when you’re home alone every night.

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