I am not sure that the iPhone is all that over priced. I payed close to $500 bones for my Cingular 8125 and all it can do is check my email and make crappy phone calls. The iPhone on the other hand was made for music and videos but has seamlessly intergrated the use of a phone within it. I am hopeing the quality of the phone itself is of good quality but if not I bought a $500 iPod video ($300 on its own) that can check email and play games. So what if I paid $200 for the email and games.
It is good to see everyone has a positive attitude for space exploration. I must assume that, in your opinion, there is no good reason to go to Mars or the Moon?
Also remember that were you got the information on gravitational pull and the atmosphere for this planet is speculative at best.
1) 2.25 times that of our own gravitational pull would not be ideal for us to live but, it doesn't mean nothing could live there. I pull 2.25g's with my car on a dry skid pad, I have not died yet.
2) Really?
3) Yes the planet is closer to its sun that ours, but if this planet is like ours, the atmosphere filters out most of the radiation. The star closest to them does not spit out the magnitude of radiation that ours does due to its size.
4) If there is atmosphere like ours with water in it, it will hold some of the heat as it passes out of its suns rays and therefore should be just as turbulent.
Also some things to think about:
Even if the planet is 2 times as big as our planet, it could be spinning faster than ours. This would help off set the gravitational pull on our bodies at the surface.
No one is saying this is a planet to colonize, but with some of our technology and determination, it could be a waypoint in the stars for us to refuel and grab water before we continue our adventures further into space.
NetApp has been doing somthing similar for a very long time. A lot of people use the Sun boxes on the frontend to boot or attach to the storage appliance and let it do the backups. It saves space and saves the server from having to do it.
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I am not sure that the iPhone is all that over priced. I payed close to $500 bones for my Cingular 8125 and all it can do is check my email and make crappy phone calls. The iPhone on the other hand was made for music and videos but has seamlessly intergrated the use of a phone within it. I am hopeing the quality of the phone itself is of good quality but if not I bought a $500 iPod video ($300 on its own) that can check email and play games. So what if I paid $200 for the email and games.
-X
It is good to see everyone has a positive attitude for space exploration. I must assume that, in your opinion, there is no good reason to go to Mars or the Moon?
Also remember that were you got the information on gravitational pull and the atmosphere for this planet is speculative at best.
1) 2.25 times that of our own gravitational pull would not be ideal for us to live but, it doesn't mean nothing could live there. I pull 2.25g's with my car on a dry skid pad, I have not died yet.
2) Really?
3) Yes the planet is closer to its sun that ours, but if this planet is like ours, the atmosphere filters out most of the radiation. The star closest to them does not spit out the magnitude of radiation that ours does due to its size.
4) If there is atmosphere like ours with water in it, it will hold some of the heat as it passes out of its suns rays and therefore should be just as turbulent.
Also some things to think about:
Even if the planet is 2 times as big as our planet, it could be spinning faster than ours. This would help off set the gravitational pull on our bodies at the surface.
No one is saying this is a planet to colonize, but with some of our technology and determination, it could be a waypoint in the stars for us to refuel and grab water before we continue our adventures further into space.
Just my two cents,
-X
NetApp has been doing somthing similar for a very long time. A lot of people use the Sun boxes on the frontend to boot or attach to the storage appliance and let it do the backups. It saves space and saves the server from having to do it.