Today, scientists working with telescopes at the European Southern Observatory and NASA announced a remarkable new discovery: An entire system of Earth-sized planets. If that’s not enough, the team asserts that the density measurements of the planets indicates that the six innermost are Earth-like rocky worlds.
Three of the planets lie in the star’s habitable zone. If you aren’t familiar with the term, the habitable zone (also known as the “goldilocks zone”) is the region surrounding a star in which liquid water could theoretically exist. This means that all three of these alien worlds may have entire oceans of water, dramatically increasing the possibility of life. The other planets are less likely to host oceans of water, but the team states that liquid water is still a possibility on each of these worlds.
Summing the work, lead author Michaël Gillon notes that this solar system has the largest number of Earth-sized planets yet found and the largest number of worlds that could support liquid water: “This is an amazing planetary system — not only because we have found so many planets, but because they are all surprisingly similar in size to the Earth!”
Co-author Amaury Triaud notes that the star in this system is an “ultracool dwarf,” and he clarifies what this means in relation to the planets: “The energy output from dwarf stars like TRAPPIST-1 is much weaker than that of our Sun. Planets would need to be in far closer orbits than we see in the Solar System if there is to be surface water. Fortunately, it seems that this kind of compact configuration is just what we see around TRAPPIST-1.”
REACHING ANOTHER WORLD
The system is just 40 light-years away. On a cosmic scale, that’s right next door. Of course, practically speaking, it would still take us hundreds of millions of years to get there with today’s technology – but again, it is notable in that the find speaks volumes about the potential for life-as-we-know-it beyond Earth.
Moreover, the technology of tomorrow could get us to this system a lot faster.
These new discoveries ultimately mean that TRAPPIST-1 is of monumental importance for future study. The Hubble Space Telescope is already being used to search for atmospheres around the planets, and Emmanuël Jehin, a scientist who also worked on the research, asserts that future telescopes could allow us to truly see into the heart of this system: “With the upcoming generation of telescopes, such as ESO’s European Extremely Large Telescope and the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, we will soon be able to search for water and perhaps even evidence of life on these worlds.”
We won't get there. Which is a shame because we probably could if we put our minds to it, but we can't see past our own greed and think military funding is a more worthwhile investment. We're more worried about fictional stories made up or taken massively out of context, purely for profit, which frighten the people against minorities instead of looking to maintain, preserve and sustain the current planet we live on for future generations, together. One day it will all come to a head and they'll think: What the fuck were those cunts doing?
Nobody living today is going to make it there, that's for sure. Perhaps they could eventually populate those planets by sending frozen embryos there. But why would you want to do that? Humans would just destroy those planets the way we've destroyed this one. Though we hate to admit it, we're an evil species which has destroyed everything in its path and continues to do so.
If they're good enough to play at World Cups, why not in between?
rowan wrote:Nobody living today is going to make it there, that's for sure. Perhaps they could eventually populate those planets by sending frozen embryos there. But why would you want to do that? Humans would just destroy those planets the way we've destroyed this one. Though we hate to admit it, we're an evil species which has destroyed everything in its path and continues to do so.
Dunno bro. I like ripping bongs, sinking tins and blowing up commodores. I am but a simple creature.
There is a rooma going around that the earth is flat, if you look into it, you will see good evidence that man has never even been into space, never mind travelling the distance you're talking about here. The moon landings were faked, all done in a studio. The international space station does not exist. We have all seen these spacewalks where the astronaut goes outside the space shuttle to fix something, how come the camera never does a 180 degree turn? never mind a 360. Its because of the "fourth wall," its all shot in a studio.
NASA is a gigantic rip off run by freemasons.
rowan wrote:Nobody living today is going to make it there, that's for sure. Perhaps they could eventually populate those planets by sending frozen embryos there. But why would you want to do that? Humans would just destroy those planets the way we've destroyed this one. Though we hate to admit it, we're an evil species which has destroyed everything in its path and continues to do so.
Lord Lucan wrote:There is a rooma going around that the earth is flat, if you look into it, you will see good evidence that man has never even been into space, never mind travelling the distance you're talking about here. The moon landings were faked, all done in a studio. The international space station does not exist. We have all seen these spacewalks where the astronaut goes outside the space shuttle to fix something, how come the camera never does a 180 degree turn? never mind a 360. Its because of the "fourth wall," its all shot in a studio.
NASA is a gigantic rip off run by freemasons.
You don't need to work for Freemasons Inc. to see that it patently isn't flat.
Lord Lucan wrote:There is a rooma going around that the earth is flat, if you look into it, you will see good evidence that man has never even been into space, never mind travelling the distance you're talking about here. The moon landings were faked, all done in a studio. The international space station does not exist. We have all seen these spacewalks where the astronaut goes outside the space shuttle to fix something, how come the camera never does a 180 degree turn? never mind a 360. Its because of the "fourth wall," its all shot in a studio.
NASA is a gigantic rip off run by freemasons.
Life itself is an illusion, and many patients who have been brought back from the point of death have claimed to have reached a point where they understood this. It's all in your mind, and you're controlling it every step of the way, though you have no inkling of the fact.
If they're good enough to play at World Cups, why not in between?
I've always wanted to write a sci-fi quadrilogy where something like that happens...
Humanity sends out a generation ship to colonise the stars - Journey time measured in millenia.
Civilisation on Earth falls (me being me, probably a climate change scenario), and rebuilds, the first expedition passes through legend and out the other side; to be forgotten about. We send out a super-fast ship to the same planet / system - Journey time measured in decades-centuries.
Civilisation continues to develop; and we send out a worm-hole ship to the same planet / system; which arrives a few decades before the super-fast ship and has more-or-less finished terriforming a planet. Ship C greets Ship B as known heroes; and they collonise the world together.
Ship A arrives another century or so later; to find a bustling human world already at play; are welcomed as some sort of museum curiosities (I'd even go with a degree of evolutionary change between Ship A and Ships B&C) - whilst Ship A basically wipes out the later/earlier colonisers with a disease that had been erradicated since their ancestors left earth (probably an STD of some description - more realistically influenza).
Lord Lucan wrote:There is a rooma going around that the earth is flat, if you look into it, you will see good evidence that man has never even been into space, never mind travelling the distance you're talking about here. The moon landings were faked, all done in a studio. The international space station does not exist. We have all seen these spacewalks where the astronaut goes outside the space shuttle to fix something, how come the camera never does a 180 degree turn? never mind a 360. Its because of the "fourth wall," its all shot in a studio.
NASA is a gigantic rip off run by freemasons.
Life itself is an illusion, and many patients who have been brought back from the point of death have claimed to have reached a point where they understood this. It's all in your mind, and you're controlling it every step of the way, though you have no inkling of the fact.
I only started looking into the flat earth thing a couple of months ago, they make a compelling case, and when you look into it, the theory and science that is involved in showing that the earth is a globe is sketchy at best, and in some cases non existent.
Lord Lucan wrote:I only started looking into the flat earth thing a couple of months ago, they make a compelling case, and when you look into it, the theory and science that is involved in showing that the earth is a globe is sketchy at best, and in some cases non existent.
TROLLLLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!
Just in case you're serious; try standing at the top, and then the bottom of a seaside cliff; or the top, and then the bottom of a mast of a sailing ship.
If you can see further from higher; then by definition, the earth's surface MUST be curved.
Lord Lucan wrote:There is a rooma going around that the earth is flat, if you look into it, you will see good evidence that man has never even been into space, never mind travelling the distance you're talking about here. The moon landings were faked, all done in a studio. The international space station does not exist. We have all seen these spacewalks where the astronaut goes outside the space shuttle to fix something, how come the camera never does a 180 degree turn? never mind a 360. Its because of the "fourth wall," its all shot in a studio.
NASA is a gigantic rip off run by freemasons.
Life itself is an illusion, and many patients who have been brought back from the point of death have claimed to have reached a point where they understood this. It's all in your mind, and you're controlling it every step of the way, though you have no inkling of the fact.
I only started looking into the flat earth thing a couple of months ago, they make a compelling case, and when you look into it, the theory and science that is involved in showing that the earth is a globe is sketchy at best, and in some cases non existent.
This explains rather a lot about some of your other posts.
Which Tyler wrote:I've always wanted to write a sci-fi quadrilogy where something like that happens...
Humanity sends out a generation ship to colonise the stars - Journey time measured in millenia.
Civilisation on Earth falls (me being me, probably a climate change scenario), and rebuilds, the first expedition passes through legend and out the other side; to be forgotten about. We send out a super-fast ship to the same planet / system - Journey time measured in decades-centuries.
Civilisation continues to develop; and we send out a worm-hole ship to the same planet / system; which arrives a few decades before the super-fast ship and has more-or-less finished terriforming a planet. Ship C greets Ship B as known heroes; and they collonise the world together.
Ship A arrives another century or so later; to find a bustling human world already at play; are welcomed as some sort of museum curiosities (I'd even go with a degree of evolutionary change between Ship A and Ships B&C) - whilst Ship A basically wipes out the later/earlier colonisers with a disease that had been erradicated since their ancestors left earth (probably an STD of some description - more realistically influenza).
That's sounds like a very interesting premise. I like how you have juxtaposed the time taken to travel and the time taken to evolve, the way you show that to improve sometimes you must start from scratch and that to reach a destination - physical, emotional or intellectual - sometimes it is better to delay that journey until you are fully equipped for the voyage.
But, and this is my big, burning question, is the planet they colonise flat?
Mellsblue wrote:That's sounds like a very interesting premise. I like how you have juxtaposed the time taken to travel and the time taken to evolve, the way you show that to improve sometimes you must start from scratch and that to reach a destination - physical, emotional or intellectual - sometimes it is better to delay that journey until you are fully equipped for the voyage.
But, and this is my big, burning question, is the planet they colonise flat?
Only if they can find a large enough turtle to carry it
Which Tyler wrote:I've always wanted to write a sci-fi quadrilogy where something like that happens...
Humanity sends out a generation ship to colonise the stars - Journey time measured in millenia.
Civilisation on Earth falls (me being me, probably a climate change scenario), and rebuilds, the first expedition passes through legend and out the other side; to be forgotten about. We send out a super-fast ship to the same planet / system - Journey time measured in decades-centuries.
Civilisation continues to develop; and we send out a worm-hole ship to the same planet / system; which arrives a few decades before the super-fast ship and has more-or-less finished terriforming a planet. Ship C greets Ship B as known heroes; and they collonise the world together.
Ship A arrives another century or so later; to find a bustling human world already at play; are welcomed as some sort of museum curiosities (I'd even go with a degree of evolutionary change between Ship A and Ships B&C) - whilst Ship A basically wipes out the later/earlier colonisers with a disease that had been erradicated since their ancestors left earth (probably an STD of some description - more realistically influenza).
You could add in a Welsh rugby team that leaves from the future, arrives in the past, only to find the evolution of a game plan has been stuck in a time loop for millennia.
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Just jokes.
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Lord Lucan wrote:I only started looking into the flat earth thing a couple of months ago, they make a compelling case, and when you look into it, the theory and science that is involved in showing that the earth is a globe is sketchy at best, and in some cases non existent.
TROLLLLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!
Just in case you're serious; try standing at the top, and then the bottom of a seaside cliff; or the top, and then the bottom of a mast of a sailing ship.
If you can see further from higher; then by definition, the earth's surface MUST be curved.
You don't need to go to the top of a cliff or mast, just use a pair of binoculars, what ever you wanted to look at will come into focus. This would in fact prove the flat earth theory.
The horizon is always at eye level, even when you are on a plane, if you are flying at 35,000 feet you should be looking downwards at the curved horizon, not straight at it, at eye level.
Lord Lucan wrote:I only started looking into the flat earth thing a couple of months ago, they make a compelling case, and when you look into it, the theory and science that is involved in showing that the earth is a globe is sketchy at best, and in some cases non existent.
TROLLLLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!
Just in case you're serious; try standing at the top, and then the bottom of a seaside cliff; or the top, and then the bottom of a mast of a sailing ship.
If you can see further from higher; then by definition, the earth's surface MUST be curved.
You don't need to go to the top of a cliff or mast, just use a pair of binoculars, what ever you wanted to look at will come into focus. This would in fact prove the flat earth theory.
The horizon is always at eye level, even when you are on a plane, if you are flying at 35,000 feet you should be looking downwards at the curved horizon, not straight at it, at eye level.
Jesus christ you are going to have to try harder than that.
I'm packed & ready . . .
