[DeTomaso] Any Kiwi Panteras?

[Mike & Elizabeth Thomas]

Which high school did you go to?  We had plenty of zeros, thankfully most of them never made it past the 10th grade . . .

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From: DeTomaso <detomaso-bounces at server.detomasolist.com> On Behalf Of Jeff Detrich
Sent: Saturday, July 7, 2018 12:34 PM
To: Himes, Terry (397C) <terry.himes at jpl.nasa.gov>
Cc: P - Mail List <detomaso at server.detomasolist.com>; Mike & Elizabeth Thomas <mbefthomas at comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Any Kiwi Panteras?

 "You can't because your calculator will never hold that many zero's.
Bummer.  "

Zeroes were not a problem when I went to school.  Now where did I leave that dang slide rule.

Jeff
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On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 5:14 PM, Himes, Terry (397C) < terry.himes at jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:

> Rob,
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> 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.
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> 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
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> "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
> 🇺🇸
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> 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:
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>     "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
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>     https://courses.lumenlearning.com/astronomy/chapter/
> exoplanets-everywhere-what-we-are-learning/
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