Mama Robotnik
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NASA exoplanet discovery conference (7 Earth-sized planets, 3 in habitable zone)
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A white hole?
PHOENIXZERO
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Why do you want to hurt our military and hate our troops? The DoD could use that money to further put into a jet that will never see combat, a 1.45 trillions dollars isn't enough! Maybe 1.46T will do the trick.
SymbiantXenos
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So what is it?
RocknRola
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Wow! Looking at those numbers, and if you don't count China, the US spent more in their defense budget in 2015 than the rest of the countries of that list combined. With China, the US does lag behind but not by much either... insane.
Nasa would probably be sending people to Europa or something if they had that much money to burn annually
Well, in 2016 the WHOLE UK spending was £761B, or roughly $990B for the exchange rates for the year. So yeah, $600b is going to be more than a LOT of countries.
Thank you.
we would be on Mars by now
Disagree Guy
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Imagine if they find a planet that is in the goldilocks zone but also close enough in proximity to a black hole to suffer from Gravitational time dilation.....
Theoretically they could have a civilization thousands of years ahead of ours but a planet that is far younger than ours.
Shit like that just blows my mind.....
Theoretically they could have a civilization thousands of years ahead of ours but a planet that is far younger than ours.
Shit like that just blows my mind.....
That's not how PR / Marketing works.
You drill a message into "regular folks" skulls or you are ignored and forgotten.
Disagree Guy
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Since its tax time, it's probably right to point out that doesn't include interest payments on past military debt as well (what we borrowed to spend and are still paying back).
Factor that in, and $0.50 of every $1.00 you send uncle Sam is going to military or the military industrial Complex. I think NASA gets a buck or two.
It's insanity, especially when budget hawks talk of how bad defiect spending/debt is in one breath and then want to expand military spending in the other.
Disagree Guy
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They are called 'sub-brown Dwarfs'
These conferences aren't for regular people, they're for astrophysicists and other interested people.
It's not NASA's fault the media always hype them up so much. Nowhere in NASA's actual news release are the words "major" or "revelation".
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-to-host-news-conference-on-discovery-beyond-our-solar-system
Seriously though people, don't get too excited.
Maybe Trump's new NASA will start using press release titles like "ABSOLUTELY HYUUGE SPACE ALIENS NEWS X-FILES STUFF YOU WONT BELIEVE IT"?
WinterIsComing
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BIGLY PLANET WITH BIGLY ALIENS!
https://www.twitter.com/DidierQueloz/status/833976887500234754
https://www.twitter.com/DidierQueloz/status/834027647046918145
Astronomy grapevine says this is news about the TRAPPIST-1 system which has 3 earth/venus sized rocky planets in the habitable zone of its star (a cool red dwarf, so bonus points for the references!)
Probable that they've detected (or even characterised) atmospheres on one/some/all of these planets.
https://www.twitter.com/DidierQueloz/status/834027647046918145
Astronomy grapevine says this is news about the TRAPPIST-1 system which has 3 earth/venus sized rocky planets in the habitable zone of its star (a cool red dwarf, so bonus points for the references!)
Probable that they've detected (or even characterised) atmospheres on one/some/all of these planets.
Disagree Guy
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"NASA confirms Alien hackers affected the Presidential vote"
SuicidalSteve
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Only joking
A black hole sucks time and matter out of the universe. A white hole returns it.
http://www.trappist.one/
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/TRAPPIST-1
Freaking awesome! Planets with (potentially habitable) atmospheres!
One of the planets is so close to their sun, 1 year is equivalent to 1.5 earth days.
LookAtMeGo
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Thats cool that its only 40 light years away too. Thats mighty close. Only ten times farther than our closest star that we will never reach in my lifetime
At least we can send some signals there and if anything is there to receive and respond to our message we might get a reply in about 80 years... after I'm long dead
Melon Husk
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Ultracool dwarf you say? They'll be orbiting really close.
thecosmicfly
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I think we've experience this period of time before.
And that one.
Insane Metal
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Exciting times. TESS and Webb will be awesome, can't wait for those.
On topic, this will probably be related to the discovery of the best candidate for life outside of our solar system.
Edit: yep that looks like it
Edit 2: holy shit this is a really REALLY good candidate. The first two planets are tidally locked to the star so the probability is lower, but the third one is not and could still be within the habitable orbit. Considering that this is a ultracool dwarf the star will shine, literally, for trillions of years. If there's no life in those planets now, there might still be something in the future.
On topic, this will probably be related to the discovery of the best candidate for life outside of our solar system.
Edit: yep that looks like it
Edit 2: holy shit this is a really REALLY good candidate. The first two planets are tidally locked to the star so the probability is lower, but the third one is not and could still be within the habitable orbit. Considering that this is a ultracool dwarf the star will shine, literally, for trillions of years. If there's no life in those planets now, there might still be something in the future.
LookAtMeGo
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Also, this SPECULOOS project sounds promising.
http://www.trappist.one/
More on SPECULOOS here
Exciting times in Exoplanetology.
http://www.trappist.one/
More on SPECULOOS here
Exciting times in Exoplanetology.
FantasticMrFoxdie
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This is definitely a Ricky and Morty Season 3 announcement
Someone didn't read the embargo properly. Now retracted, but it looks like a discovery of another 4 rocky planets in the habitable zone of this star. Seven potentially habitable planets! Seven!
http://uk.businessinsider.com/earth-size-worlds-seven-trappist-1-2017-2?r=US&IR=T
http://uk.businessinsider.com/earth-size-worlds-seven-trappist-1-2017-2?r=US&IR=T
Huh.
So my gf is the black hole, my company the white hole and the matter is my money!
lastplayed
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Neutron star?
LookAtMeGo
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Sheeeit. I missed this. Its 404d now... but 7 planets in the habitable zone with just this star? That's incredible.
Cool, I'll think about them for a split second as the nukes rain down.
That would have been awesome if it was the same in our solar system...
LookAtMeGo
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Thanks god.
War of the Worlds for real. Imagine multiple species emerged on these planets independently, and the interplanetary dynamics it could create. Hopefully they'd get along with each other :|
Caayn
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That's a huge if, seeing how hard it seems to be for us to get along with our own species.
Granted our thoughts and beliefs might have evolved different in a solar system with multiple intelligent species.
I think it could help unify planets, and presumably accelerate development of space technologies. But international conflict could be easily replaced by interplanetary conflict.
Although this is a very human-centric view of things...
LookAtMeGo
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Interplanetary conflict would be nuts. Space battles would happen for sure. But multiple planets evolving intelligent species independently simultaniously in the same solar system seems pretty improbable. But I could see one species spreading over the other planets and colonizing them and with enough time becoming seperate government entities on each planet.
nekkid
It doesn't matter who we are, what matters is our plan.
It increases significantly if you consider one world spreading the seed to others via asteroid impacts etc.
Cached here if you want to read it:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.c...&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk#UgIwFHsoWZmYGljp.97
LookAtMeGo
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🤔
Thanks!
Edit: Its fucking happening bros. This is the kind of shit I like to hear.
Look forward to the thread on this tomorrow. Err later today?
Scientists speaking about surveying other worlds always gives me the chills. Too bad none of us is going to live to see them, but the very fact that they have been proven to exist is just so exciting.
LookAtMeGo
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Indeed. Its sad that we wont live to see these planets explored and whatnot but I do love that we are here at the begining of their discovery. If we survive as a species long enough to one day reach these other worlds, this will be a very important time in history. Its fun to think about at least.
I figure I have at least a good 30-40 years left and I'm excited about the things we may discover. Its a nice distraction in thought from the mess that is our current reality.
Stiflers Mom
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For me it's unbelievable we are not yet trying to colonize Mars, and that this will probably even won't happen in my life time...
It's nice we are finding habitable exoplanets, but over the next few thousand years nobody will be able to live there.
It's nice we are finding habitable exoplanets, but over the next few thousand years nobody will be able to live there.
Always-honest
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7?!... jeeeezus. Wish we could warp there.
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