Solar system scale web page - this is a big place. Even scrolls at light speed - which seems sooooo slow!

[My Wife Hates CIV]

http://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html

[Sava]

takes like a half hour or so to get to mars?

[Lorizael]

Should only take about 12 minutes. But yeah, light is slow.

[Sava]

goddamn "mission to mars" movie lied to me

I think it was the gary sinise/tim robbins one

[Lorizael]

Well, it depends. It could take upwards of 20 minutes to get a message from Earth to Mars, if they're at opposite ends of their orbits. So there's a between distance where it could take half an hour to get there and back again. /me shrugs.

[Sava]

Google's source says:

All communication between Mars and Earth goes through satellites. Because of the distance, there is a substantial delay. As communication signals travel at the speed of light, this means that it can take between 3 and 22 minutes for the information to reach the other end, so a phone call would not be practical.

[My Wife Hates CIV]

than go from mars to Jupiter... that's a trip!

[Sava]

I saw a program that guessed what kind of life would/could exist in Jupiter's atmosphere.

It was pretty trippy.

[My Wife Hates CIV]

I bet nothing... but on the moons... maybe.

[Sava]

I bet neither one of us will find out the answer in our lifetimes.

[Lorizael]

Maybe you need to raise your life expectancy.

[Sava]

If the next 34 is going to be anything like the first 34, I'd rather not.

[My Wife Hates CIV]

oh... I think so... if you live another 30 years. Now, if there is nothing else out there... than yeah, we will not see it - nothing to see.

As far as intelligent life/advanced life if this part of the galaxy... one thing you can say for sure - we don't live down town on main street.

I still think mars is #1 chance of anything. it will be small... but it's not too cold, not too much radiation (Jupiter and moons are bathed in it). Saturn/titan. too cold. way too cold.

of course... we may be it. might not be anything else like us for some distance - or time.

but when you see the distance between planets... wow - I really don't think people will ever make it to the nearest stars. it's just too far.

[Sava]

As far as intelligent life/advanced life if this part of the galaxy... one thing you can say for sure - we don't live down town on main street.

Would a microbe on Main Street know its on Main Street?

[My Wife Hates CIV]

I would think not... but I wouldn't consider that intelligent life... or even advanced life. but not sure what the standard def for advance life is.