yeah i was gonna make a thread but forgotcool shitimagine having sentient life on all 3 planets and they're like trading with each other as a solar system that would be sick
Quote from: Fedorekd on February 24, 2017, 03:01:45 AMyeah i was gonna make a thread but forgotcool shitimagine having sentient life on all 3 planets and they're like trading with each other as a solar system that would be sickYeah but we have memes.
Surprised to see this not being discussed especially by the astronomy people.
I'll just have to cross my fingers that there's no life, I guess.
Would it bother you if grass was found on the planets? That's life.
I never understand the appeal and public joy in finding such discoveries.
Quote from: Alternative Facts on February 24, 2017, 11:36:15 AMI never understand the appeal and public joy in finding such discoveries.it reinforces the fact we may not be alone in the universe and we can explore new places in space. but i also partially blame nasa for blowing things out of proportion like they did with the mars "discovery" a while back
Quote from: Naru on February 24, 2017, 12:21:31 PMQuote from: Alternative Facts on February 24, 2017, 11:36:15 AMI never understand the appeal and public joy in finding such discoveries.it reinforces the fact we may not be alone in the universe and we can explore new places in space. but i also partially blame nasa for blowing things out of proportion like they did with the mars "discovery" a while backI mean, is it really a surprise anymore that there are other planets with a similar size and such as Earth? It was cool the first half a dozen times, now it's no more surprising of a discovery than some new fish in the ocean.Let me know when we actually find something new or get people onto another planet though.
Quote from: Alternative Facts on February 24, 2017, 01:50:52 PMQuote from: Naru on February 24, 2017, 12:21:31 PMQuote from: Alternative Facts on February 24, 2017, 11:36:15 AMI never understand the appeal and public joy in finding such discoveries.it reinforces the fact we may not be alone in the universe and we can explore new places in space. but i also partially blame nasa for blowing things out of proportion like they did with the mars "discovery" a while backI mean, is it really a surprise anymore that there are other planets with a similar size and such as Earth? It was cool the first half a dozen times, now it's no more surprising of a discovery than some new fish in the ocean.Let me know when we actually find something new or get people onto another planet though.It's more so the fact it is so close. Only 40 light years away. That's basically in our own backyard. It'll allow us to study these planets and see things such as that, and though we speculate through pure statistics that life has to exist on other planets, it's an entirely different factor when you actually have concrete evidence it, along with water on said planets, exists.
Eh. I'm still not impressed or consider it a groundbreaking discovery.Then again, space and such was never really an interest to me.
Quote from: Alternative Facts on February 24, 2017, 02:02:21 PMEh. I'm still not impressed or consider it a groundbreaking discovery.Then again, space and such was never really an interest to me.Seven terrestrial worlds all in or near the habutable zone and orbiting extremely close to each other to the point you'd be able to identify surface features if you were stand on one is pretty groundbreaking.Especially considering we have 8 major bodies and we thought that was approaching the upper limit for a system to be stable. The planets identified at TRAPPIST don't even include potential gas giants and ice giants, dwarf planets and moons.
Quote from: Alternative Facts on February 24, 2017, 02:02:21 PMEh. I'm still not impressed or consider it a groundbreaking discovery.Then again, space and such was never really an interest to me.Just wait for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to be launched in 2018 (hopefully, they keep pushing the date back). I learned more about that in class today and THAT shit has me excited. It's gonna be able to see so far out into the universe, along with offering an INSANE amount of resolution. Main goal is to see how galaxy's and planets form. Hubble's glass scope is 2.5 (6?) meters I believe. JWST is 6 times that size I think.It's going much further than Hubble is too. Figured I'd make this post to make you have something to actually look forward to. It's just exciting to me to know we're launching new advanced tech into space so far out, as opposed to Hubble which is almost 30 years old. That's ancient.
No threads about the new planets?
