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NASA exoplanet discovery conference (7 Earth-sized planets, 3 in habitable zone)
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LegendofJoe
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Megalosaro
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Apparently the closest planet has a year that is 1.5 earth days long.
Jesus christ. That's ridiculous.
Ridiculous.
Jesus christ. That's ridiculous.
Ridiculous.
Alebrije
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Pewpewlazors99
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Hopefully one of the three turn out to be truly habitable and have water. Maybe with this discover NASA can put for more effort on FTL travel so we could eventually get to one of those planets.
If I could ask for anything to happen in my lifetime it would be some assurance that humanity isn't going to die on this planet. This might be the beginning...
If I could ask for anything to happen in my lifetime it would be some assurance that humanity isn't going to die on this planet. This might be the beginning...
Can you imagine if life developed on these planets just how different the course of your development would be if you could just look up and see another planet with life on it with your naked eye? Like, it's a system where two species on two planets could make first contact with nothing more than a particularly large array of lights or mirrors to signal at each other. You wouldn't even need to wait for radio tech, let alone rocketry. And you'd be at the point where you could do interplanetary travel when you had the sort of tech that got us to the Moon. The incentive to develop space travel tech would be so much higher than it is here.
WeAreStarStuff
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Ziltoidia 9
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Alex Fitzpatrick @AlexJamesFitz
TRAPPIST-1: come over
me: I can't
TRAPPIST-1: I have seven earthlike planets, several in my habitable zone
me:
Lol.
It would take 40 years going at light speed to get to it.
Lulz.
Bacardi151
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Amazing
I wouldn't count on it being stable. Yes, they live way longer, but the problem with M dwarves is that their surface are way more active than hotter stars like the sun, so they flare way more. Cooler does not mean more stable! Which is why I wish they would give more details on how active this star is.
With FTL travel (with an alcubierre drive or whatever we invent) we could just establish colonies on every lpanet on that system and create a civilization based on all of them. (Or at least 3 of them, if they have a nice atmosphere)
Lil'DigiOp
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When I die, I hope my soul can travel through space.
Id love to see this stuff myself.
Id love to see this stuff myself.
Why waste time finding something we will never reach?
Knowing these things are out there but we can't reach
If we send today a probe there, it could reach the system in 160 years, and send pictures back in another 40 years.
InfiniteBento
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this is insane
LegendofJoe
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I know right, makes me more excited about this.
As an aside just recently in the US the only official Trappist brewery outside of Europe opened in Spencer, Massachusetts. Astronomy, science, and beer - can one think of a better combination of things?
TheRealTalker
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with our current rockets it would take around 800,0000 years to get there
Chiaroscuro
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? If the picture is supposed to be from planet e you should only see 3 other planets by looking to the night side, right?
Just in time for my great great great grandkids 13th birthday party.
nope
Oh, yeah, that's the problem, NASA just aren't trying hard enough to break the laws of physics.
Palette Swap
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In an age where brutal idiots are celebrated and experts shunned, this is very very pleasing.
Melkezadek
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I would bet my shirt that there is life of some kind on at least one of those planets.
The thought of that is crazy to me.
The thought of that is crazy to me.
I think they're referring to project Starshot, you should look it up.
Lovely Salsa
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So how do we find out if there's life there or not? Also, can we breathe the air there?
One really small probe proppeled by lasers from earth is plausible and doable right now.
GHG
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Doesn't the fact that the star is smaller mean it will have a shorter lifespan? Or am I off the mark here?
MisterGrey3000
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Travel Poster by NASA. It is astronomically accurate. You'd see those planets in that way if you were in that place.
T.T
Why oh why was I doomed to exist in a time period where we can barely move about our own solar system!
I wanna see that crazy, beautiful alien sky with my own eyes. :,<
Anyways, this is really amazing news.
Another FUTURE album coming out this Friday. Coincidence? I think not.
Astronaut Status.
LookAtMeGo
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Haunted Tank
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POTUS just needs to sign a new EO and we will have FTL travel within a year!
The Elite
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Alex Fitzpatrick @AlexJamesFitz
TRAPPIST-1: come over
me: I can't
TRAPPIST-1: I have seven earthlike planets, several in my habitable zone
me:
Lol.
Because we'll reach it eventually.Why waste time finding something we will never reach?
Knowing these things are out there but we can't reach
MisterGrey3000
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GHG
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So red drawfs have longer life spans? That's even better news.
It's facisnating but it's also a shame that we won't be able to get anyone there in our generation.
TheRealTalker
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wouldn't the planets tear each other apart if they were that close though?
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