NASA to Host News Conference on Discovery Beyond Our Solar System

[cbrunny]

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-to-host-news-conference-on-discovery-beyond-our-solar-system

1pm EST today. Sounds like they found something. Googling around suggests the individuals invited to speak are experts in potential alien life, if such experts exist.

 

[rh71]

I already have a conf call at 1pm today. Tell them to reschedule for me. Appreciate it.

 

[louis redfoot]

guaranteed bs... there's a planet after pluto. so what

 

[shortylickens]

guaranteed bs... there's a planet after pluto. so what

QUIET YOU!

 

[Majes]

Sounds interesting!

 

[cbrunny]

guaranteed bs... there's a planet after pluto. so what

could be that weird planet x thing though, which would be pretty interesting. Could also be something from a completely different system.

Or it could be BS.

 

[umbrella39]

3 earth sized planets orbiting a star 40 light years away that are in the habitable zone with a total of 7 earth sized planets in all. A very interesting discovery.

 

[cbrunny]

sounds pretty neat. 40 light years is a friggin long way away though.

 

[Ruptga]

sounds pretty neat. 40 light years is a friggin long way away though.

Everything in space is a long way away, hence the expression "astronomically large".

 

[Darwin333]

sounds pretty neat. 40 light years is a friggin long way away though.

It's actually not all that far astronomically speaking.

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

It's in the backyard from a galactic perspective. Great info revealed in the press release. One of the three is tidally locked I believe, one had confirmed water in-atmosphere (which would heavily imply liquid water on the surface), and all three are Goldilocks-y. In addition they said all would have comparable radiation levels to earth (from the host star). No word on moons, but they are close enough to create tidal forces on each other. Tiny system, planets trappist-1b-h range in orbital periods from 1.5d to like, 20-25d.

 

[nakedfrog]

Everything in space is a long way away, hence the expression "astronomically large".

You may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space.

 

[njdevilsfan87]

Pretty cool discovery. It makes me wonder that if our species evolved in such a solar system, how much more of a space based species we'd be by now due to the proximity of planets, and potential of multiple worlds that could support life and colonization much easier than a planet like Mars.

 

[IronWing]

If we can see them, they can see us. Time to launch the B17s.

 

[cbrunny]

If we can see them, they can see us. Time to launch the B17s.

400km/hr over 378,440,000,000,000 kms =

946,100,000,000 hrs
or
39,420,833,333 days
or
10,800,283 years
or
~540 times longer than humanity has existed on Earth.

Better get moving!

 

[IronWing]

400km/hr over 378,440,000,000,000 kms =

946,100,000,000 hrs
or
39,420,833,333 days
or
10,800,283 years
or
~540 times longer than humanity has existed on Earth.

Better get moving!

Already on it.

 

[rh71]

Suppose we find life on another planet. The breathing-thinking kind. Do we let them know we're here?

 

[norseamd]

 

[norseamd]

400km/hr over 378,440,000,000,000 kms =

946,100,000,000 hrs
or
39,420,833,333 days
or
10,800,283 years
or
~540 times longer than humanity has existed on Earth.

Better get moving!

You realize that humans have existed on Earth for over 6 million years? Or if we are to take perhaps the more scientific definition, perhaps humans have existed for over 8 million years, with 2 species still stuck in the stone age, and 1 species in the early space age.

 

[BxgJ]

400km/hr over 378,440,000,000,000 kms =

946,100,000,000 hrs
or
39,420,833,333 days
or
10,800,283 years
or
~540 times longer than humanity has existed on Earth.

Better get moving!

Ok, was about to reply with something funny, then realized that an interstellar kinetic impact weapon could be devastating....

 

[louis redfoot]

told you, typical nasa. they won't ever tell anything that important.

 

[Pulsar]

They named the system "Trappist"? That sounds REALLY rapey.

 

[MongGrel]

NASA’s longshot bet on a revolutionary rocket may be about to pay off

https://arstechnica.com/science/201...revolutionary-rocket-may-be-about-to-pay-off/

Lets go

 

[norseamd]

They named the system "Trappist"? That sounds REALLY rapey.

You dont have any clue what Trappist means?

 

[uhohs]

You dont have any clue what Trappist means?