Allow my to propose to you a philosophical question, Anons.

>>29623332
I honestly wouldn't be surprised if we found a world where there's intelligent horse-like creatures.

>>29623332
I'd become an astronaut just to explore it.
I imagined this happening too. We can only hope.

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>>29623332
if dubs we have found equestria

Given that magic cannot exist according to current known laws of physics, I'd say that that's extremely unlikely.

Also any planet which has a normal, well-behaved orbit automatically means it's a version of Equestria where the sun isn't pony-controlled, and just from that we're already delving into shitty AU.

>>29623534
RE ROLL DAMMIT

>>29623535
who's to say this "well behaved orbit" isn't the direct result of celestia and luna?

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>>29623332
>off by one
maybe one day we will find them
>>29623344
double dubs confirm anon-stronauts
astronons? whatever, point is, this nigga's getting launched into space in search of magic horsepussy
>>29623566
nice

>>29623535
>Given that magic cannot exist according to current known laws of physics, I'd say that that's extremely unlikely.
>What is Quantum Entanglement
>What is energy conversion
>How does energy change into matter

Physical rules allow magic to exist under certain conditions. Also, known science changes every year, and about every 10 years all physical laws we know change due to new discovery.

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>>29623589

i am summoning a nerd anon to do the math and tell us if we can make it to equestria

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>>29623663
>there's a chance
nigga, Equestria is real
we just haven't found it yet
do not despair, for you were born in time to go and see your waifu!

Alien life is a pipe dream
The Bible told me so!

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>>29623589
>Physical rules allow magic to exist under certain conditions. Also, known science changes every year, and about every 10 years all physical laws we know change due to new discovery.

I read some science article on buzzfeed the post.

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>>29623782
Not that Anon, but he's not completely wrong. I'm kinda fried, so I'm not going too far into it, but properly calibrated electromagnetic fields would behave similarly to magical telekinesis. Then again, the odds of any species developing a nervous system that could generate that much electricity is slim anyhow.

>>29623742
I'll do this one, though.
We haven't perfected stasis yet, nor any form of near-light propulsion. As such, assuming we stay near our current capabilities, I'm pretty sure we're talking a few centuries of space travel before we'd get to the first potential. It'd be a similar situation to the Dragonriders of Pern, honestly. If we made it to Equestria, it'd take so long that human culture such as it is would have been almost extinct aboard whatever craft we sent.

>>29623751
See pic related.

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>>29623332
>At least three already have life.

There are only two ways for them to know whether or not a planet has life on it.

1. Go there. Humans have never been on any planet other than Earth.

2. Aliens come to us and tell us that there is life on a planet.

There are no known planets (other than Earth) with life on them.

>>29624271
funnily enough, I have both and decided to use the other instead

>>29623535
Magic is nothing but a sufficiently advanced form of technology.

Granted, IRL Equestria would likely be the pony overlords lying to their subjects about controlling the orbit of the planet, but, hey, you can't have everything.

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>>29623332
In reality?

It means nothing to any of us. It will take, at the very least, generations to develop the technology to travel there. Just as long to develop the will. Decades to get there. If they just found Equestria, you will never live to see it. You won't even live long enough for them to realize what they have found.

>>29624289
>life must be intelligent to be considered life
Why am I not surprised to posted Maud, you fucking autist.

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>>29624342
Did I say that life had to be intelligent? No. Only one of those two things I said requires intelligent life.

Either aliens will tell us that they exist, or we will tell aliens that we exist. It's as simple as that. Neither has happened. No life has ever been found on any planet other than Earth.

>>29623332
The planets are 40 light years away, it would take 40 years while traveling the speed of light to reach them.

So if we used a super strong telescope or ponies used radio waves that eventually reached earth over a couple hundred years, that would only be the first step. Again, if we were able to tell that Equestria had a civilization on it; the civilization would be 40 light years old by the time we could see it.

We would be barely able to contact each other, as radio messages sent back and fourth, again, would take many years (as radio waves or any kind of digital wave don't travel the speed of light). By the time we were able to send them a simple "Hello" it would be (probably) +100 years for them to receive it.

We currently have no possible way to reach Equestria with our technology, as it would take generations of children being born on the ride there to even come close to reaching a planet 40 light years away.

But lets say that we're able to use wormholes to travel there almost instantly, good for us. However, NASA has something else to worry about; the threat of cross contamination. We can't send people there immediately for the fear of either catching or unintentionally releasing a xeno super disease on humanity or pony kind.

To put it lightly, in the best case scenario, an ISS like space station would be built above the planet, on that station we would use it to pilot rovers on the surface to collect data and make contact with ponies.

>>29623332
>Rape

>>29624386
My nigga.

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>>29624431
Forgot the pic.

>>29624386
>as radio waves or any kind of digital wave don't travel the speed of light
Are you being unironic right now?

Radio waves are literally light

They travel at the exact same speed as light

By light I mean electromagnetic radiation, but that's just semantics.

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>>29623344
>>29623588
>normies launch /mlp/ into space to try and destroy horsefuckery once and for all
>anons end up finding equestria
>use magic to come back to Earth and invade the planet with colourful talking horses
>waifu claim threads become serious fucking business
>Vermin Supreme elected overlord of world
>red light districts flooded with cuddleslut pones, replacing actual sluts
>human race quickly dies out, replaced with billions of satyrs
>/mlp/ gets three stars

>>29623332
>Scientists make a super telescope that not only let us see outside our solar system, but we can even observe the landscape of some planets
>NASA find another exoplanet similar to ours
>Observing the landscape, we find Equestria, Poniville in particular
>Mass amazement over the discovery as everyone drops what they're doing to observe as ponies go about their day to day, interacting with each other
>Its not quite as we imagined, as technology there has made some significant advancement of its own, though the town still has its rustic nature
>We move to Canterlot, only to find that its got its own massive sky-dome observatory with their own super telescope

>Pony scientists were milling about within the dome with their own research and seem to be fixated on something
>Turns out, our line of sight has crossed theirs
>For the longest time, both sides silently observe each other in shock and awe
>The cute little poner who was their head of this project only can mouth the words "Oh Celestia".

>>29625911
>After the initial shock wears off, NASA holds a conference about the discovery
>Shares the details with the world about the discovery of an Equestria that seems to be technologically advancing
>Pony madness takes the world by storm again; its far bigger than just a perfect storm cartoon this time around.

>Hasbro is immediately called into question about the situation, but claim to have no idea how to explain it
>Bonnie Zacherle suddenly cannot be found anywhere for an interview, and Faust declines having any, only Tweeting a picture of herself mimicking the "I'm not saying its aliens" meme
>/mlp/ gains a spike in activity because of the discovery

>It gets a sticky containing a video/stream of the discovery of equine life
>/mlp/ anons feel a mix of excitement and vindication of equestria being real, as well as some concern that it might not be the equestria they know
>Every thread on the board is about how waifuable each of the little horses in the video feed are.
>Other boards are pissed that what was thought to be a fictional realm turned out to be true, but only the one that was almost unanimously reviled across 4chan

>>29625911
>>29625933
>Recurring dubs
Kek wills it.

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>>29625659
>Vermin Supreme elected overlord of world
Fucking FINALLY

Astronon green when?

>>29623332
Oh goody. More works for the fucking human race to ruin.

>>29623566
>>29623588
>>29623663
>>29623589
>>29624316
Excellent

>>29624289
>what are biosigns
>what is methane

>>29623332
It can't be canonical equestria because in the show there are no visible other planets when looking up at they sky, irl the planets are too close not to be able to see one another. This doesn't mean that there isn't magical ponies with tramp stamps that represent their true purpose there though

>>29623332
We can make equestria a place on earth.

>>29623332
>Pony body doesn't make evolutionary sense, especially for a sapient species
>Magic (in the traditional sense) is out of the question
>Wings would need to be much larger to fly
>Sun/moon control would require extremely advanced technology and would be worthless
The only way this would be possible is if advanced aliens devolved their bodies into the pony form, while keeping some of their technology for "magic". And even then, they wouldn't speak English.

TLDR: they're not real

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>>29623332
THEY ARE NOT REAL!
YOU WILL DIE ALONE!

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>>29628084
AI isnt that far off.

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>>29623332
>and at least 3 of them already have life on them, supposedly
What sensationalistic faux journalism are you reading?

>>29628219
What about VR?

>>29623338
The observable universe is so large that the human mind could never, in a million years, ever hope to comprehend it's vastness. That's just the OBSERVABLE universe. There is absolutely no possibility that in all of that space, humans are the only intelligent life to evolve. I would bet everything I own that in the entire universe, there is at least one intelligent horse-like creature.

>>29628247
what about both combined?

>>29623332
>NASA has discovered 7 planets that should be able to sustain life, and at least 3 of them already have life on them, supposedly.
Seven EARTH-LIKE planets, as in, they are about the same size and the right distance from their star. We don't know anything about their composition, or even if they have an atmosphere yet. We're still working on finding that out.

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>>29628256
This. Future spectroscopy from the James Webb Space Telescope will tell us about atmospheric composition, which can indicate life. (The only reason our atmosphere is 20% oxygen is that life produces it; detecting an atmosphere like ours would indicate biological processes.)

Also, there are many more than seven known earth-like planets in habitable zones, but I assume OP is talking about the seven earth-like planets around Trappist-1.

Here is the short PBS Space Time video on it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h871oE5QkTU

(Also, this channel is the best thing on youtube. O'Dowd and his graphics team actually explain general relativity principles such as how energy is mass, spacetime diagrams as relate to the event horizons of black holes and the geometry of causality, etc, to the layperson:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzyNI4rl6m3lS-e5D5XinYQniveqXmOGu, in that order.)

>>29625659
>that last line
fucking kek

>>29624289
You can send robots, you know. Dumb rock bitch, go back to your digging.

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>>29628570
That misses the point.

>>29624289 is completely wrong about those being the only ways to detect life.

We can detect even bacterial life just from observing the atmospheric composition through spectroscopy from Earth.

>>29628593
No it doesn't, as you can send robots 5 year or ten ago and receive the signals just now dense motherfucker.

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we aint found shit kid .
that we did not already know 100 years ago.
nasa is a dis-info outlet source to keep us behind and directly interfere with our space travel laws.
so that we never realize we are owned by yahwh.
the moon is not ours........
arise kill god for he is as mortal as you he just has more tech.

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>>29624386
>equestria exists on another planet
>want to be with waifu, but impossible
>you would be old when you got there and she would be dead
>she exists, but you can never have her

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>>29628614
That's ridiculously more difficult, you're factually wrong, and the analysis is the same. Trappist-1 is 40 light-years away; it would take centuries for anything to get there. The only thing remotely underway for interstellar travel is propelling a one-gram computer chip on a light sail that we propel with a 100-billion watt laser beam. This would accelerate the tiny computer chip to 20% the speed of light, and even then it would just whizz by the star in a few centuries, gather a small amount of spectroscopic information, and send it back.

>>29628690
Then how are they receiving signals smart ass?
They send radio or electric waves since those travel much faster than anything else.
A signal from mars was theorized to arrive on earth in 6 months.

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>>29628713
Light from Mars takes three minutes to reach Earth. Where are you getting your information?

We receive information from Trappist-1 the same way we receive information about anything outside our solar system: emitted light. In the case of Trappist-1, observing the tiny fluctuations in light from the parent star as the planets pass in front of it.

ITT: SCIENCE, BITCH.

>>29628744
We are not talking about light, but radio or other signals.
There is a lot of trash in space, so you gotta remember that causes a lot of waves to be lost usually.

>>29623332
>>29623332
let's say we actually found technicolor horses on the Trappist system
then
How the fuck do we get there?
>also<
why not hope pic-related blows up and creates a singularity to another dimension or some shit like every tin-foil conspiracy theory believes?
or experiment with teleportation in CERN?
"Best" case scenario:We get to Equestria or NEAR Equestria
"Welp" case Scenario: Half-Life Happens
"ya fucked up" case scenario: We open the gates of hell and Doom Happens

>>29628759
Radio waves are light waves. Stars emit radio waves in addition to infrared, visible, ultraviolet, and gamma-ray light.

All bodies emit light with a frequency-distribution depending on their temperature. You emit infrared light. Interstellar dust emits radio waves. Merging neutron stars emit gamma rays.

>>29628824
>>29628830
Nice duble post faggot
Anyways yeah fucked up and it was 3 to 22mins for a call, don't know how I misremembered so badly.
http://www.mars-one.com/faq/technology/how-does-the-mars-base-communicate-with-earth

>>29628065
Anon.

We are talking about a different planet. With different rules, and different evolutionary functions.
For all we know, it could fucking be Equestria. It's a whole new world anewfantasticpov and we don't know a damn thing about it.

So yeah, you're gay.

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>>29628813
Forgot the fucking pic again
also bump

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>>29628852
Corrected typo.

Anyway, you really need to read up your science. PBS Space Time is a great resource.