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| Khaz:
--- Quote from: Verification on October 15, 2017, 03:24:16 AM --- Betelgeuse might have exploded by now and we wouldnt be able to tell --- End quote --- i hear the estimate for betelgeuse's death is to be 100,000 years from now but it's only 642 lightyears away so unlikely but who knows its not like you or i or anyone today will see it anyway :( |
| Verification:
--- Quote from: Khaz on October 15, 2017, 03:25:37 AM ---i hear the estimate for betelgeuse's death is to be 100,000 years from now but it's only 642 lightyears away so unlikely but who knows its not like you or i or anyone today will see it anyway :( --- End quote --- Saw that ninja ... But what if there were some kind of tf2 style radiactive superfuel that could be used to extend human life in distant galaxies? We probably have only scratched the surface of elements in the earth, other planets and the rest of our universe. |
| Khaz:
--- Quote from: Verification on October 15, 2017, 03:28:06 AM ---Saw that ninja ... But what if there were some kind of tf2 style radiactive superfuel that could be used to extend human life in distant galaxies? We probably have only scratched the surface of elements in the earth, other planets and the rest of our universe. --- End quote --- well i mean we have man-made elements at this point which are chemically different than other elements but dont occur in nature so i doubt other elements even exist i could be wrong though im not too knowledgeable about chemistry i mean i passed the class but the tests were easy asf to study for |
| Steve5451²:
--- Quote from: Verification on October 15, 2017, 03:28:06 AM ---Saw that ninja ... But what if there were some kind of tf2 style radiactive superfuel that could be used to extend human life in distant galaxies? We probably have only scratched the surface of elements in the earth, other planets and the rest of our universe. --- End quote --- as awesome as it would be, atoms can only have a certain amount of protons before they become unstable and decay |
| TristanLuigi:
--- Quote from: Steve5451² on October 15, 2017, 04:27:26 AM ---as awesome as it would be, atoms can only have a certain amount of protons before they become unstable and decay --- End quote --- Yeah, I really hate the sci-fi trope of "weird new alien elements!" The entire universe is made of the same elements we have (and know about) on Earth, and any new ones we create will decay in a tiny fraction of a second and are therefore of no use. We've got around ~90 elements to work with, and we always will. The only progress I can see in this endeavor is if we were somehow able to suppress the weak force, which is responsible for nuclear decay. But there's no theoretical, let alone practical, way of doing that, any more than there is a way to suppress gravity. |
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