[DeTomaso] Any Kiwi Panteras?

[Himes, Terry (397C)]

Yep!  __



"A Purple Heart proves you were smart enough to hatch a plan,
 stupid enough to try it and lucky enough to survive!"
 
Terry W. Himes 
JPL Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Dawn Spacecraft Team
Rosetta Sequence Team Lead
Phone: (818) 393-6261
Cell:     (818) 653-8213
thimes at jpl.nasa.gov
🇺🇸
 
On 7/5/18, 3:28 PM, "Charles Engles" <cengles at cox.net> wrote:

    Dear Terry,
    
    
                        So......doing the math, it would appear that we need much faster Panteras to get around the solar system and the Milky Way.......
    
                                         Warmest regards,  Chuck Engles
    
    
    
    -----Original Message-----
    From: DeTomaso [mailto:detomaso-bounces at server.detomasolist.com] On Behalf Of Himes, Terry (397C)
    Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2018 5:14 PM
    To: Rob Dumoulin; Jeff Detrich
    Cc: P - Mail List; Mike & Elizabeth Thomas
    Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Any Kiwi Panteras?
    
    Rob,
    
    Yes, that is correct. We are not alone.  Probably.  In many of my talks I give some pretty incredible numbers.  I've attached a shot of one of my slides.  In case it doesn't get thru here are the statistics;
    
    The attachment is a map of the entire "visible" universe. Our little galaxy has somewhere in the neighborhood of 300-500 billon stars. Kepler is only one telescope and talks about only what it sees. Scientists think there are at least 1 in 10, (maybe much more) solar systems around our galaxies stars. You can do the math. 
    
    Now think about the entire universe. They guess there are 380 billon large galaxy's, and 7 trillion dwarf galaxy's.
    Large galaxy's have 100 trillion stars and dwarf galaxy's have 100m to 10billon stars.  You can do the math. 
    Wait!  You can't because your calculator will never hold that many zero's.  Bummer. 
    
    Fun Fact.
    I also talk about the Trappist-1 solar system.  It has the richest set of earth-like planets. 7 all in the habitable zone.
    It is 40 light years away. How long would it take to get there?  If your Pantera could travel at 38,000mph (same as Voyager 1 or Musk's Tesla), it would take you ~700,000 years to get there. Pack a lunch!  __
    
     Ok. 'nuf fun.  I have to get back to work. I have a spaceship to fly.  Oh!  We launched InSight on May 5th. It will land on Mars Nov 28th.  It will take 7 months to get there. Think about it. It takes us 7 months JUST to fly to the next planet in our puny little solar system.  Hmmmm?
    
    Terry
    
    
    
    
    
     
    "A Purple Heart proves you were smart enough to hatch a plan,  stupid enough to try it and lucky enough to survive!"
     
    Terry W. Himes
    JPL Jet Propulsion Laboratory
    Dawn Spacecraft Team
    Rosetta Sequence Team Lead
    Phone: (818) 393-6261
    Cell:     (818) 653-8213
    thimes at jpl.nasa.gov
    🇺🇸
     
    On 7/5/18, 1:39 PM, "DeTomaso on behalf of Rob Dumoulin" <detomaso-bounces at server.detomasolist.com on behalf of rob at dumoulins.net> wrote:
    
        "small world".... NASA Terry can chime in, but it is my understanding that
        based on the exoplanets identified by the Kepler telescope, Earth is
        definitely on the "small" side of the scale. Imagine the Olympics if we
        ever admit "countries" from planets with a mass twice of Earth?
        
        Interesting read
        
        https://courses.lumenlearning.com/astronomy/chapter/exoplanets-everywhere-what-we-are-learning/