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Friend, let me repeat: Space is BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIG.
by chaps 3y ago
Friend, let me repeat: Space is BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIG.
- p1mrx 3y agoWhat if we create a time loop, launch the spacecraft in a random direction, and reset the loop if nothing is found?
- simonh 3y agoTo quantify this a bit, the search area for Planet X is in the region of many hundreds of AU from the sun. That’s many millions of cubic AU to hunt around in. That’s a lot of chaff, without even considering how we would detect and track the chaff from this far away.
- skykooler 3y agoIt's sort of the equivalent of trying to find your headphones by walking around with the bluetooth menu open on your phone and waiting to see if they pop up then they must be nearby, except all you know is that they're somewhere on Earth and you don't know where until you come within ten feet or so of them. And in reality it's even harder than that, since the surface of Earth is essentially two-dimensional as far as finding things goes, but a search for a planet would need to cover most of the volume of the greater solar system.
- kaliqt 3y agoSo essentially, we need a lot more clues to narrow this search radius down.