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PostPosted: Wed Feb 22, 2017 10:27 am 
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NASA is ready to tease us again with a press conference today to announce we are a binary star system.....uh no....something about exoplanets. Slowly breaking the news to most of us that we have never been alone and our species does indeed terraform and colonize.



1300 EST on the NASA Channel

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/listen-nasa- ... 13525.html

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PostPosted: Wed Feb 22, 2017 2:43 pm 
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https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa ... ets-around

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At about 40 light-years (235 trillion miles) from Earth, the system of planets is relatively close to us, in the constellation Aquarius. Because they are located outside of our solar system, these planets are scientifically known as exoplanets.

This exoplanet system is called TRAPPIST-1, named for The Transiting Planets and Planetesimals Small Telescope (TRAPPIST) in Chile. In May 2016, researchers using TRAPPIST announced they had discovered three planets in the system. Assisted by several ground-based telescopes, including the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope, Spitzer confirmed the existence of two of these planets and discovered five additional ones, increasing the number of known planets in the system to seven.

The new results were published Wednesday in the journal Nature, and announced at a news briefing at NASA Headquarters in Washington.

Using Spitzer data, the team precisely measured the sizes of the seven planets and developed first estimates of the masses of six of them, allowing their density to be estimated.

Based on their densities, all of the TRAPPIST-1 planets are likely to be rocky. Further observations will not only help determine whether they are rich in water, but also possibly reveal whether any could have liquid water on their surfaces. The mass of the seventh and farthest exoplanet has not yet been estimated – scientists believe it could be an icy, "snowball-like" world, but further observations are needed.

"The seven wonders of TRAPPIST-1 are the first Earth-size planets that have been found orbiting this kind of star," said Michael Gillon, lead author of the paper and the principal investigator of the TRAPPIST exoplanet survey at the University of Liege, Belgium. "It is also the best target yet for studying the atmospheres of potentially habitable, Earth-size worlds."


Time to wreck another world!

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PostPosted: Wed Feb 22, 2017 2:57 pm 
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Awesome.

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PostPosted: Wed Feb 22, 2017 3:46 pm 
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Confirmation of planets that could be life supporting being found is really just confirmation of what seemed obvious isn't it?

Not to hack on them looking at them and studying them.


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PostPosted: Wed Feb 22, 2017 4:37 pm 
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Hounsy wrote:
Confirmation of planets that could be life supporting being found is really just confirmation of what seemed obvious isn't it?

Not to hack on them looking at them and studying them.


That God created all this 8,000 years ago?

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PostPosted: Wed Feb 22, 2017 5:22 pm 
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Hounsy wrote:
Confirmation of planets that could be life supporting being found is really just confirmation of what seemed obvious isn't it?

Not to hack on them looking at them and studying them.


No doubt.....IMO anyone with half a sense of outside the box imagines that the persistence of life could not be uniquely confined to our ball of mud.

Don't they know that this generation was raised on Alien contact via the media?

Age of Aquarius indeed!

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Where is everyone?

http://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/fermi-paradox.html

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First intercepted transmission- "Ah shit. They've found us. Oh and it's the fucking Americans! Blagnar damn it!"

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PostPosted: Fri Feb 24, 2017 10:49 am 
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Could be a combination off physical and technology limits no matter how long a civilization last that prevents contact as ever being a possibility. Reality is so much we do not know about how thing work.


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Hounsy wrote:
Could be a combination off physical and technology limits no matter how long a civilization last that prevents contact as ever being a possibility. Reality is so much we do not know about how thing work.



I like this. They'd be about as interested in us as we are fleas.

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PostPosted: Wed Mar 01, 2017 5:56 pm 
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I also feel like at some point over the course of billions or even millions of year, some kind of natural disaster or manual fuckup would happen. Seems like an absurb length of time to go for nothing to happen. Probably a combination of things in the end. Crazy to think about.

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I haven't really sat down to read too much about the TRAPPIST system (we GOTTA find a better name than that) but I'm curious as to how much a solar system's "habitable zone" is different given this star is not as large nor as powerful as our own sun. Judging from the illustrations they seem to think it's not that different from this one.

Lots of obstacles to deal with in terms of long-term habitation and travel into space. In addition to the obvious space/time debacles, there's cosmic radiation that astronauts today just have to deal with, and apparently weightlessness wreaks havoc on the body. We know of the effects it has on muscle atrophy and possible cardiac-related problems, but apparently it also does a number on your eyes as well. Many astronauts, including Commander Chris Hadfield, had to deal with space-related vision issues upon returning to Earth.

Bottom line...we're just not built for space. I remember seeing on a PBS special a sci-fi author speculated that in order to really colonize space, we'd have to genetically alter humans so they can survive there.

It can probably be assumed if there are indeed alien species out there at least as advanced as our own civilization that they're dealing with the same issues.


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The Covoid-19 thing reminded me of Fermi's Paradox again.

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