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[The Jazz Cabbage Master]

Travel Poster by NASA. It is astronomically accurate. You'd see those planets in that way if you were in that place.

Where can I buy this?

 

[WeAreStarStuff]

Doesn't the fact that the star is smaller mean it will have a shorter lifespan? Or am I off the mark here?

The phrase "the brightest stars shine the shortest" is actually quite literal.

 

[Magus1234]

If we could send a really small drone there I wonder about sending organisms that survive on parts of the planet there. Maybe in a million years they will come to us.

 

[Hastati]

POTUS just needs to sign a new EO and we will have FTL travel within a year!

It's a terrifying thought that first contact could occur during the current global political climate, but it's not like there would ever be a good time I guess.

But I guess it's still astronomically unlikely that we would be close to a space-faring civilization.

 

[Interface_2037]

40 light years.

14 days away...at Warp 8

 

[LookAtMeGo]

Now we just need to learn how to manipulate the fabric of space-time to open wormholes or discover the warp field and create warp drives and shit.

 

[Poyunch]

I like how the title includes how many were in the Goldilocks zone. All the Facebook posts on the announcement neglect to include it.

This is like a sci-fi dream come true. Perfect setting for interplanetary wars or empires. I wonder what everyone over there is doing.

 

[Hoodbury]

with our current rockets it would take around 800,0000 years to get there

So you're saying I should pay the extra fee to pack more than a carry on?

 

[MrChocolate]

Oh, yeah, that's the problem, NASA just aren't trying hard enough to break the laws of physics.

My guess is if we, as species, dedicated our resources to achieve FTL speed. We could do it in a reasonable timeframe. But as species we are just a bunch of prehistoric monkeys fighting over stupid shit.

 

[GK86]

Jordan Fabian @Jordanfabian

We need a total and complete shutdown of aliens from Planet E entering the United States until we can figure out what's going on.

Nick Corasaniti @NYTnickc

Everyone stoked about these new planets must not have seen "Independence Day."

 

[The Jazz Cabbage Master]

My guess is if we, as species, dedicated our resources to achieve FTL speed. We could do it in a reasonable timeframe. But as species we are just a bunch of prehistoric monkeys fighting over stupid shit.

Lol pretty much.

 

[Lan Dong Mik]

Omfg!

Incredible findings, God damn we need FTL

It's too slow! We gotta go faster. 40 years is just way too fucking long. Ship breaks down half way and the crew is fucked. Need to think of other alternatives to space travel man. Sure would be cool to see a significant break through in my life time.

 

[Slayer-33]

40 light years.

14 days away...at Warp 8

Fuuuuck. Need NAO

 

[kruis]

Belgian beers as names for the planets. YES DO IT!

Image you'd be the first human astronaut standing on the surface of Lambiek and looking up you'd see the planets Struise Pannepot, Leffe, Hoegaarden and Oud Beersel floating over the reddish clouds.

 

[RareFantasy64]

Could we ever develop the technology to move around in space practically enough to reach other livable planets?

 

[FantasticMrFoxdie]

water + sun = life!


can't wait to meet our new alien friends so we can colonize and build a wall around them

 

[Blader]

Travel Poster by NASA. It is astronomically accurate. You'd see those planets in that way if you were in that place.

This is incredible.

 

[The Incarnation]

Can't wait for us to invade, only to find out on arrival that the inhabitants of the three planets have destroyed themselves and posioned the athmosphere with a spectacular nuclear fireshow.

 

[Tempy]

 

[LegendofJoe]

Image you'd be the first human astronaut standing on the surface of Lambiek and looking up you'd see the planets Struise Pannepot, Leffe, Hoegaarden and Oud Beersel floating over the reddish clouds.

I need to have dreams about this. The Trippel of life planetary system.

 

[-Plasma Reus-]

Where can I buy this?

HQ Download ; https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/system/downloadable_items/315_TRAPPIST-1e_PRINT_E.jpg

 

[Steeped in a Sea of Games]

That's nice, I guess. It doesn't really mean much to anyone currently alive in this thread, however.

 

[LookAtMeGo]

Travel Poster by NASA. It is astronomically accurate. You'd see those planets in that way if you were in that place.

My new background image on my phone.

 

[Bronx-Man]

Another FUTURE album coming out this Friday. Coincidence? I think not.

Astronaut Status.

 

[OléGunner]

Amazing discovery.

We need James Webb to launch like asap and determine those key three planet atmospheres.

 

[DrROBschiz]

wow cool!!!!




......,.......


now how do we get there

 

[Chiaroscuro]

Amazing. Absolutely amazing.



^I want this poster.

Download it from here:

https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/resources/2159/

 

[LookAtMeGo]

If we could send a really small drone there I wonder about sending organisms that survive on parts of the planet there. Maybe in a million years they will come to us.

What if our germs kill off any life that is actually there already?

 

[Wheeljack539]

Travel Poster by NASA. It is astronomically accurate. You'd see those planets in that way if you were in that place.

Caprica was right.

 

[Carn82]

Image you'd be the first human astronaut standing on the surface of Lambiek and looking up you'd see the planets Struise Pannepot, Leffe, Hoegaarden and Oud Beersel floating over the reddish clouds.

Well if you want to honor the system's name I would go for only trappist beers, hehe. Westvleteren, Rochefort, Chimay, Orval, Leffe, so fort.

 

[Bobnob]

Wish i was around in 500 years, by then we might have a base on mars and sending landers to the proxima centurie system.

 

[ferr]

40 light years.

14 days away...at Warp 8

engage

 

[Bronx-Man]

"Wahhh, I'll never be able to see this for myself"

Uh, you guys ever heard of carbon freeze?

 

[Sephzilla]

Travel Poster by NASA. It is astronomically accurate. You'd see those planets in that way if you were in that place.

 

[Hastati]

I wonder what the probability of life emerging is for a given planet with oceans and constant geological activity. As long as you have organics and thermal vents and infrequent enough bombardment, is it always going to form? Hopefully we get some data from Europa or Enceladus or somewhere close within the next couple of decades.

 

[Linkstrikesback]

Can't wait for us to invade, only to find out on arrival that the inhabitants of the three planets have destroyed themselves and posioned the athmosphere with a spectacular nuclear fireshow.

Jokes aside, we'd definitely have sent an unmanned probe first and found about that long before any human got near the planet.

I wonder what the probability of life emerging is for a given planet with oceans and constant geological activity. As long as you have organics and thermal vents and infrequent enough bombardment, is it always going to form? Hopefully we get some data from Europa or Enceladus or somewhere close within the next couple of decades.

I assume the probability is low for any short amount of time, but if a planet has similar properties to earth, and is capable of being stable for long enough (though enough means probably near billion(s) years) I'd bet it happens eventually for all Earth like planets.

 

[nekkid]

My new background image on my phone.

Shame about the text.

 

[rec0ded1]

Trying to decide between planet f or g

 

[davidwhangchoi]

guys, guys, Kyrie says the earth is flat so that's that.

 

[RedSwirl]

This system sounds like a ton of the ones I've seen exploring in Elite Dangerous and Space Engine. Goes to show how much of the science in those games is plausible.

 

[Lagunamov]

Image you'd be the first human astronaut standing on the surface of Lambiek and looking up you'd see the planets Struise Pannepot, Leffe, Hoegaarden and Oud Beersel floating over the reddish clouds.

Don't forget La Chouffe!!

 

[GK86]

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More like:

[img]http://i.imgur.com/dMtN4WJ.jpg?1

 

[demosthenes]

Trying to decide between planet f or g

Is this like Pokemon?

 

[GeekyDad]

40 light years.

14 days away...at Warp 8

Make it so, Number One!

 

[RocknRola]

Travel Poster by NASA. It is astronomically accurate. You'd see those planets in that way if you were in that place.

A view like that would be amazing! That's a whole lot more interesting than 1 moon hehe

 

[Gravidee]

 

[GameAddict411]

Comparing our solar system to theirs:

That's very tiny. So it's a dwarf star then? You can probably see the other planets pretty easily if you were on one of them. Just imagine what sort of life could on one of them. I don't believe for a second that we are alone in this universe.

 

[jmdajr]

Comparing our solar system to theirs:

woah

 

[Magus1234]

What if our germs kill off any life that is actually there already?

I think we would have that info before any other steps would be taken. Just think of all the crazy possibilities though, imagine sending an AI or Transplanted Human conscious on thousands of tiny drones capable of collecting and reassembling matter to create a sustainable being that could live on that planet. The idea of us getting there may not be achievable but maybe we can make an us there.

 

[Joeku]

I haven't followed the JWST; did they give any guesses as to how much better of a picture we'd get of these planets with it?