# Life on other planets outside of our solar system? **URL:** \ **Category:** talk\ **Created:** [January 23, 2004, 6:09am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/life-on-other-planets-outside-of-our-solar-system/40904 "2004-01-23T06:09:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2004, 2:16am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/life-on-other-planets-outside-of-our-solar-system/40904/21 "2004-02-10T02:16:46Z")
[side note] hahaha the first time I read that I thought you said “go blind” and then gave him a link to the explanation of light. I now see that his handle is blindlizard. I just thought that was hillarious, maybe it’s just me… [/side note] There are alot of things we don’t understand about light. It’s still open for debate about what makes it the ultimate speed in the universe ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2004, 3:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/life-on-other-planets-outside-of-our-solar-system/40904/22 "2004-02-10T15:44:36Z")
Part of it is because relativity shows that a lot of the energy and such travel at the speed of light, and as you approach the speed of light, you get a lot of variations between time, position, etc. that are not explained in Newton. Here is a good read I just browsed a few mins ago: [http://www.nature.com/nature/links/031016/031016-5.html](http://www.nature.com/nature/links/031016/031016-5.html) (select Full Text for more info) :ub: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2004, 3:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/life-on-other-planets-outside-of-our-solar-system/40904/23 "2004-02-10T15:49:07Z")
Ah well, full text requires you to have a subscription. It will have to wait a week till I go back to uni and then I will have access to it. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2004, 8:21pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/life-on-other-planets-outside-of-our-solar-system/40904/24 "2004-02-10T20:21:01Z")
Are you sure? I was able to access the full version without a subscription: [http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v425/n6959/full/nature02016\_fs.html](http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v425/n6959/full/nature02016_fs.html) 👁 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2004, 11:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/life-on-other-planets-outside-of-our-solar-system/40904/25 "2004-02-10T23:07:45Z")
That page brings up a login page with this information on it. Full text articles are available through one of three options: a subscription associated with a personal account an individual article purchase a site license $18.00 to read it… If your on campus at MIT Nature may have it set up so that anyone from that IP range has access. Other than that I don’t know……. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2004, 11:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/life-on-other-planets-outside-of-our-solar-system/40904/26 "2004-02-10T23:08:59Z")
Oh - maybe ☹ [Previous page](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/life-on-other-planets-outside-of-our-solar-system/40904.md?page=1)