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[Badlucktroll]

When are we going?

A newly discovered planet 40% larger than Earth may be suitable for life

It's one of two new planets that were recently found about 100 light years from Earth, both of which take just days to orbit their own sun.

www.npr.org

 

[Insane Metal]

Really cool. It is in the Goldilocks zone but there are many variables. For one, the distance to the star is so small that it is probably tidally locked. Still, exciting news.

Can't wait for the discoveries that we'll make with the JWST. (I know this has no connection with it).

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

I want my aliens mannnnn

 

[cormack12]

Just big enough for the population of twitter to fuck off to.

Holy shit, 3 days years. Lol

 

[Insane Metal]

Just big enough for the population of twitter to fuck off to.

Holy shit, 3 days years. Lol

Twitter + Era.

This is the finding of the century!

 

[Fbh]

orbits its sun in just 2.7 days

Damn that gives you just enough time to recover from the hangover before celebrating new year again

 

[Romulus]

I read on the lower estimate there are around 5-10 billion planets in the milky way galaxy that could be habitable, and there are billions of galaxies

I mean even if you cut that down to 100 million planets to be extremely safe and multiply that be an extremely conservation number of 1 billion galaxies. That's an incredible number that's mind blogging, even at the absolute lowest guess.

 

[Doom85]

LMAO, 2.7 day-long years? Reminds me of that moment in Rugrats:




Sorry, best quality I could find.

 

[Valedix]

 

[chromhound]

They find one every year

 

[chromhound]

I want my aliens mannnnn

Put your dick in your pants bruh....

 

[bitbydeath]

Holy shit, 3 days years. Lol

Re-enactment of expected daily life:

 

[jason10mm]

Just big enough for the population of twitter to fuck off to.

Holy shit, 3 days years. Lol

Sounds like a place for the next epstein island.

"Naw man, it's cool, she's like 2000 years old here!"

 

[AJUMP23]

They should send the person that discovered it there to report on it. 5 pages double space typed.

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

Put your dick in your pants bruh....

But but Aliens!

 

[GeorgioCostanzaX]

I read on the lower estimate there are around 5-10 billion planets in the milky way galaxy that could be habitable, and there are billions of galaxies

I mean even if you cut that down to 100 million planets to be extremely safe and multiply that be an extremely conservation number of 1 billion galaxies. That's an incredible number that's mind blogging, even at the absolute lowest guess.

I've yet to hear a credible argument for why its impossible for life to exist outside of earth other than conspiracy theories and religion. But what's more fascinating to contemplate is will it ever be possible for us to detect intelligent life on other planets and will it ever be possible for human or alien life to travel the distance between planets quickly enough to actually meet each other? Then there's things like the Fermi Paradox and Great Filter theories to contend with or is it somehow possible that humans are the first ever intelligent species and other planets are full of animals without opposable thumbs? Those types of questions, to me, are way more interesting to think about than "are we alone?" because it's almost mathematically impossible that we aren't.

 

[PaddyOCanager]

So?

We cookin' oxygen on Mars right now homie no one gives a shit about this wannabe Earth.

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

So?

We cookin' oxygen on Mars right now homie no one gives a shit about this wannabe Earth.

Man can't believe there's a possibility of hearing terraforming happening in my lifetime. Was thinking we were 500 to 1000 years away from that

 

[DeafTourette]

I've yet to hear a credible argument for why its impossible for life to exist outside of earth other than conspiracy theories and religion. But what's more fascinating to contemplate is will it ever be possible for us to detect intelligent life on other planets and will it ever be possible for human or alien life to travel the distance between planets quickly enough to actually meet each other? Then there's things like the Fermi Paradox and Great Filter theories to contend with or is it somehow possible that humans are the first ever intelligent species and other planets are full of animals without opposable thumbs? Those types of questions, to me, are way more interesting to think about than "are we alone?" because it's almost mathematically impossible that we aren't.

Yes, it's possible for us to traverse great distances in real time via warp power. The required energy is FAR LESS than what we believed even 10 years ago, according to NASA. Warp is possible but RIGHT NOW is prohibitively expensive and dangerous... It'd take years to test and build a working warp engine. We'd need better maths to figure it out! Or possibly just a quantum computer.

 

[March Climber]

When are we going?

Billionaires:

 

[Aggelos]

When are we going?

When man becomes capable of constructing Einstein-Rosen bridges. The freaking star system 100 light-years away. So it's not happening in this millennium, most likely. Maybe after the year 3000 or somethin', when man should be able to make amazing human-like A.I.s and spaceships, that would travel over there.

Wormhole - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

​

 

[GeorgioCostanzaX]

Yes, it's possible for us to traverse great distances in real time via warp power. The required energy is FAR LESS than what we believed even 10 years ago, according to NASA. Warp is possible but RIGHT NOW is prohibitively expensive and dangerous... It'd take years to test and build a working warp engine. We'd need better maths to figure it out! Or possibly just a quantum computer.

That’s cool if true I wonder if some new energy source were to be discovered on like an asteroid or something if that could make it possible faster?

 

[Dr.D00p]

Great...so at top speed with current rocket tech, which hasn't really advanced in 70yrs much beyond tinkering around the edges, it would only take ~4 Million years to get there.

Good to know.

 

[Toons]

Another planet to ruin?

Maybe let's fix this one first?

 

[Romulus]

I've yet to hear a credible argument for why its impossible for life to exist outside of earth other than conspiracy theories and religion. But what's more fascinating to contemplate is will it ever be possible for us to detect intelligent life on other planets and will it ever be possible for human or alien life to travel the distance between planets quickly enough to actually meet each other? Then there's things like the Fermi Paradox and Great Filter theories to contend with or is it somehow possible that humans are the first ever intelligent species and other planets are full of animals without opposable thumbs? Those types of questions, to me, are way more interesting to think about than "are we alone?" because it's almost mathematically impossible that we aren't.

I think it's insane that the only Earth like planet we can actually see with any sort of clarity is, Earth. And well, that produced intelligent life(supposedly), but we scoff at the idea this could happen somewhere else, yet we're completely blind, deaf, and ignorant to all those billions of Earth like planets. It's just a ridiculous idea. It's like some wanker that's lived in a cave his entire life suddenly finds out there are millions more caves out there, but assumes he's the only one. lol

 

[StreetsofBeige]

100 light years away. Awesome.

So whose going to get on a spaceship travelling at the speed of light eating, sleeping and fucking to have generations of kids for a century; only to finally land and then they got to know how to get off a ship safely and build a colony?

 

[Badlucktroll]

When man becomes capable of constructing Einstein-Rosen bridges. The freaking star system 100 light-years away. So it's not happening in this millennium, most likely. Maybe after the year 3000 or somethin', when man should be able to make amazing human-like A.I.s and spaceships, that would travel over there.

Wormhole - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

​

Wonder if that will actually work, or if it will turn into some Event Horizon shit?

 

[Liamario]

100 light years away. Awesome.

So whose going to get on a spaceship travelling at the speed of light eating, sleeping and fucking to have generations of kids for a century; only to finally land and then they got to know how to get off a ship safely and build a colony?

It's all very interesting, sincerely, but we have no hope of getting there. At least not with the knowledge we have currently.

 

[AlteredForms]

How long is the plane ride though?

 

[VN1X]

I wish life there all the best.

 

[dr_octagon]

Would we call it Earth 2 or Planet McPlanetface?

 

[Stuart360]

Did they check that star yet where they though a Dyson sphere might be being made around it?.
Not that they would tell us anyway if they found something

 

[Sgt.Asher]

If it orbits that quick, wouldn't the tidal forces be insane?

 

[Badlucktroll]

Did they check that star yet where they though a Dyson sphere might be being made around it?.
Not that they would tell us anyway if they found something

KIC 8462852. (Tabby’s star). I think they covered up the dyson sphere theory by saying it was comet dust or something.

 

[QSD]

If it orbits that quick, wouldn't the tidal forces be insane?

yeah I was also wondering whether the fast orbit time would somehow be noticeable on the surface outside of really really short seasons possibly, I'm crap at physics so I have no clue

 

[Stuart360]

KIC 8462852. (Tabby’s star). I think they covered up the dyson sphere theory by saying it was comet dust or something.

Ah the old 'swamp gas' thing eh.

 

[Tieno]

Good, Ours is not doing a good job at it.

 

[Rockondevil]

Man I'd love to spend just an Earth month there or something to experience it travelling around the sun.

Whether it's tidally locked or not it would be an out of this world experience.