Nasa discovers new exoplanets and stuff.

>nasa
It's fucking nothing. They need to actually explore space or be eliminated.

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>>8694071
>At about 40 light-years (235 trillion miles) from >Earth, the system of planets is relatively close >to us, in the constellation Aquarius.

>Are you ready to leave this shithole?
yes

>>8694071
>Tidally locked
boohoo it's fucking nothing.

frame-shift drive charging.

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>>8694083
Yeah! Let's just get in a spaceship and start exploring empty space!

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>TFW we keep getting swiped left on cosmic tinder and alien civilizations keep rejecting our dick pics and cries for attention
The culmination of human scientific effort so far is shooting off "PLEASE LIKE ME" messages into space and finding planets that might contain space pussy we can beam our dick pics at.

>>8694102
Yeah! Let's just waste funding trying to create worthless clickbait!

They could at least work towards going somewhere. They aren't even doing that.

>>8694071
"The sky vanished like a scroll that is being rolled up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place."
Revelations 6:14


We're going nowhere.

Do they actually know what the planets look like? or are those renderings just bullshit for the masses?

>>8694114
Those are actual photos of those planet

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>>8694108
>They could at least work towards going somewhere
Like where?

>>8694118
no but rly

>>8694122
no 40ly away you cant see shit even with the most powerful of telescopes, you can only take readings.

>>8694121
Literally anywhere. Exploring empty space would be better than this stupid ass cries for funding.

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>>8694122
Nigger, we don't even know if they have water/atmosphere.

>>8694071
>Are you ready to leave this shithole?
It's 40 light years away

>>8694130
>>8694136
thats what im saying so why do they have to put out bullshit renderings for us? they even add color and land masses.

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>>8694133
Everything is too fucking far away anon, we can't do that. The best we can do right know is obverve distant shit and go to the nearest planet.

>>8694071
>Implying that you wouldn't be required to bring the scourge of humanity with you.

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>>8694142
Because that way brainlets will get excited and NASA will get more funding and we will get more space exploration.

>>8694144
Governments will probably ship migrants there

>>8694112

Says who?

>>8694144
Actual question:
Would you reather stay in your fucked but developed planet or go to a new one?

>>8694144
Americans are that bad? At this rate God will exterminate you guys with fire soon

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>>8694169

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>>8694071
>> no spectral data
For all we know they could have atmospheres of cyanide, seas of neurotoxin, and be covered in asbestos.

Also is it just me or does this press release image look like spooge?

>>8694166
the omnipotent

>>8694104
>Reason no one talks to us is all our messages go to alien spam inboxes

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Here are their stats

>>8694172
angels fights with demons

>>8694174

So, someone who can't do shit. cool.

>>8694177
>orbital period: 4.05 days
>distance to star: basically right in its face

what the fuck is this shit

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And here are their orbits
(yes, Planet B has a tighter orbit than Callisto)

>>8694139
only 1j in my asp

>>8694189
>what the fuck is this shit
The star is, like, really small

Are they tidally locked?

>>8694133
>>8694083
And what would a spaceship sent to explore butt-fucking-nowhere empty space do? (Besides the obvious of testing the effects of anal penetration in microgravity)

Do you think it would look at things? Telescopes allow us to look at things too, only we don't have to wait as long.

>>8694197
Yes

>>8694190
What's the mass of that star?

>>8694189
They're orbiting a dwarf star m8. I think it's pretty cool how close together they all are. Maximum comfy solar system.

>>8694197

Yes

>tfw living on a colony right at the light dark border
>tfw perpetual sunset in the sky

Comfy as fuck tbqh

>>8694204

Slighter larger than your mum after taco night

>>8694190
>>8694196
>>8694189
What is this? A solar system for ants?

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>>8694213

>>8694204
0.08 solar masses
83.8 Jupiter masses

>The planets also are very close to each other. If a person was standing on one of the planet’s surface, they could gaze up and potentially see geological features or clouds of neighboring worlds, which would sometimes appear larger than the moon in Earth's sky.


I am currently having an orgasm

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>>8694205
>>8694208
>ywn live on a tidally locked planet where all the other planets can be seen from the surface like we see the moon

>>8694217
ants?

>>8694071
How many trillions do I have to pay?

>>8694177
I wonder how visible they'd be in each others skies

also since none of them are close to 1.0 earth mass won't the gravity be fucked if we tried to visit them/live on them long term?

>>8694228
I'm pissed that the download links for this are broken.

>>8694230
burgers?

>>8694208
>> tfw the red dwarf has an solar flare
>> get cooked by stars deadly radiation

It's a red dwarf, it's already really fucking dim.

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>>8694238
fuck forgot picture

>>8694234
I think it would have more of an impact on the offspring.

>>8694228
>with a good telescope you could see people on the other planet waving to you
maximum comfy

>>8694242
Why did we have to be born in this uncomfy shithole of a system?

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>>8694242
That would have to be a really really fucking good telescope.

>>8694234
You need similar radius and mass in order for gravity to be "normal "

Besides if we had technology that can get us there (at least 40 light years), then I would assume we have tech to mitigate the effects of low/high gravity.

>>8694234
The planets are generally around 1 earth radius and no more than 0.01 AU apart. Someone can do the math here.

Gravity-wise, they're more habitable than Mars.

>>8694234
hmmm just noticed that, NASA made a big deal of them being earth sized but isn't having earth like mass more important if you're looking for possible life or a possible place for us to move to?

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>>8694242
You know what people would do.
>Planet C is a fag written in hug letters on Planet D

>>8694252
Are you seriously implying that we couldn't genetically re-engineer ourselves to be suitable for another environment?

>>8694263
MAN +

>>8694136
What is going on in your gif?

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>>8694263
>If humans are so good why aren't there humans 2

>>8694252
The density is actually better to look at since you can infer whether or not the planet is rocky

>>8694271
No bio major, but I think that's mitosis

>>8694263
No I'm just asking if the planet size or mass is more important when considering habitability.

>>8694271
>>8694278
That is obviously mitosis.

So it's essentially a bigger jovian system?

>>8694284
Mass. Gravity depends only on the mass.

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>>8694289
>Mass. Gravity depends only on the mass.

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Have they already been to the Trappist system?

[spoiler]Will this get me banned here?[/spoiler]

>>8694236
>wanting meme space travel posters
Hasn't NasaX made enough of them already?

Imagine what a Dyson swarm you could build with all that rock and the star itself will last trillions of years. This is some prime real estate.

>>8694307
>Not wanting memes

What are you doing here?

>>8694289
that's wrong

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>>8694307
They look cool. Why not make them?

>>8694293
>>8694318
So what would the gravity be on these planets? Are we looking at approximately 1 g here?

>>8694309
Uranus masses about 3 times more than all of these planets. It's not that much mass.

>>8694071

This is legitimately amazing. But there's still the huge question of whether or not they're tide-locked.

>>8694108

>They could at least work towards going somewhere. They aren't even doing that.
What do you THINK they're doing when they work to discover potentially habitable exoplanets? This is the kind of news we want as supporters of manned space exploration.

>0.92-1.06 R and 0.62-1.38 M isn't Earthlike enough

fugging millenials

>>8694339
>the huge question of whether or not they're tide-locked.
They are.

>>8694328
Sauce on this picture?

>>8694339
tidal locked planets can potentially sustain life if it has an atmosphere to begin with.

>>8694273
>there are actually people who unironically believe this

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>>8694328
>Within 12 parsecs

Too slow.

>>8694349
NASA, the link above.

>>8694356
are you really surprised, even after trump election?

>>8694330
I have done the calcs:
>b 0.72g
>c 1.23g
>d 0.69g
>e 0.73g
>f 0.63g
>g 1.05g

>>8694096
We don't know if it's tidally locked

>>8694096
>The planets may also be tidally locked to their star
>may
get out brainlet

>>8694096
>he doesn't want to visit a tidally locked world

plebs out now

>>8694071
i like this. Every press conference now is them going to be announcing finding new habitable planets closer and closer to our own
feels good

>>8694114
They are "guessy" renderings, that's all.

>>8694362
Well that seems pretty good then.

For as cool as the system seems to be why don't we study closer ones more? Like they even mentioned during the announcement that the closest star to earth has at least 1 planet in the habitable zone, why do we focus on that since it's more realistic to go there.

Another issue to consider is the fact that since this system does not have a planet like Jupiter, the planets there may get buttfucked by meteors regularly.

>>8694385
We know a lot more about that planet than about these new ones. They are still studying it.

>>8694071
What reason do we have to believe that these planets are habitable?

>>8694390
just build a meteor shiled

>>8694114
All we really know about them are approximate sizes and orbital periods. From that we infer other things like density so we can say pretty confidently that they are rocky planets for example but we don't know much about their surface beyond that.

The bullshit drawings get people excited that's why they do it.

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>>8694328
>tfw you will never look up and see the lights of cities on other planets

>>8694397
all the condition are there, but obviously nothing is certain.

>>8694208
>tfw atmosphere all frozen on the dark side.

>>8694083
>>8694161
You guys


NASA didn't discover shit. It was discovered by a team of Belgian astronomers. Hence it being called TRAPPIST, a type of Belgian beer. As a dutchie I fully approve of this, well done Belgium.

NASA only did a press release about this to get all the attention and steal the credits. Typical American attentionwhoring.

>>8694397
>What reason do we have to believe that these planets are habitable?
They MAY be habitable because they are in the habitable zone.

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>>8694356

>In FY 2017 total US government spending on welfare — federal, state, and local — is “guesstimated” to be $1,127 billion, including $646 billion for Medicaid, and $481 billion in other welfare.
>$1,127 billion

>>8694405
But we know that we could probably do it someday.

Our ancestor's mind were trapped on Earth.

>>8694256
Is this an edit, or is the more sensibly-paced 4-paneled one the edit?

>>8694410
Belgium were the first to discover and study the system but NASA has done further research on it. Belgians only identified 3 planets around the star NASA identified 7.

>>8694273
welfare accounts for less than 1% of the fiscal budget. most of it goes to military

>>8694410
Didn't they say in the video that they found our about these plantes thanks to one of their telescopes?

>>8694161
>NASA will get more funding
>we will get more space exploration

pick one. everyone at NASA wants to do climate ((((research)))) because its piss easy and funding flows like water.

As usual, it's nothing but NASA crying for more funds. The only unusual thing here is the amount of newfags in this thread happy about this announcement. /sci/ truly is lost.

>>8694071
>source
>Telescope

Not enough data for a meaningful leap of utter logic as to call it anything close to Earth. Which is why they only call them "Earth-sized" and within the "Habitable-zone".

Still might be worth it to send a colony ship at least. I'd rather wait until more information is found using better equipment. Like a space based telescope array as large as the optics allow.

>>8694397
They might be. We believe they are rocky based on calculated density and 3 of them are within the "habitable zone" for their star.

We don't know for sure and we don't know what they look like either. The visual representations of them take considerable artistic license but if they just showed everyone regular dimming patterns on a star nobody would care.

>>8694410
Well anon, perhaps these planets should be named after Belgian beers?

Achel, Chimay, Orval, Rochefort already sound like pretty good planet names. (I know nothing of belgian beer)

>>8694349
I made that version myself by optimizing NASA's image and cropping.

>>8694421
>NASA crying for more funds
>newfags in this thread happy about this announcement
It's not like fucking NASA put those planets there you fucking retard. We are happy because we now know there's new interesting shit in space, not because NASA discovered it.

>>8694423
>Still might be worth it to send a colony ship at least

Right I mean I wouldn't send the whole fleet but you know we could send 1 or 2 I suppose...

>>8694397
It is a very loose and dishonest use of "habitable."

The odds are extremely high that.if you were to go there and step outside, it would be a race between temperature and atmosphere to see which would kill you first.

Similarly, they use "Earthlike" to fool people into thinking they have found something that they have not, in fact, found.

They found some planets where maybe liquid water could exist with gravity roughly like ours. That's cool. That is not "inhabitable."

>>8694417
Over 50% of the budget is defense.
I don't understand how people don't see that as absolutely ridiculous.

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>>8694390
damn we really are special snowflakes huh

Why dont NASA focus instead in making expeditions to Mars? Its actually possible and we know its a planet we can breath

>>8694273
Are you stupid ? 40 light years in 20 years ?

>>8694439
Because there's fucking nothing on Mars.

>>8694420
That political reality may have changed. Visit /pol/ for clues as to why.

>>8694417

>hurr why does the richest country on earth need a strong military

>>8694442

Maybe there is rare minerals who knows, diamonds or some shit that could solve the earth poverty problems

>>8694441

>implying ftl transit is impossible

>>8694412
You are right about welfare costing too much but 20 years is impossible

Our long-term goal for the next 100 years should be to establish bases on the Moon and Mars, within 200 years we should also establish bases in Jupiter and Saturn's moons.

Interstellar travel can wait a few centuries, until we can come up with faster means of travel.

>>8694416
>>8694418

Well sure they helped. But they didn't discover them. That was Belgians.

>>8694425
That sounds like an excellent idea. Those names really sound like pretty nice names for planets.

I lived near Eindhoven when I was younger, and once every summer we would take our bicycles to the Achelse Kluis to get icecream and some beers for dad to enjoy on summer nights.
>tfw my descendants will visit Achel to get space ice cream and space beer.

The future might not be so bleak guys.

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>>8694439
>we know its a planet we can breath

>>8694439
>he thinks we can breath on Mars

>>8694445
>diamonds or some shit that could solve the earth poverty problems

Are you in sixth grade?

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>>8694445
>I haven't eaten in 6 days.
>Here, have some diamonds.

You are born a Terran
You die a Terran
Long distance space travel isn't possible.

Mankind's speediest spacecraft so far is travelling 33,000 MPH. At that rate it takes it roughly six hours to go as far as light light goes in one second. That's a ratio of one to 21,600. So that means current technology could get us to our nearest neighbor two LY away in 43,000 years.

Your welcome i just ruined your hopes and dreams

>>8694456
>he thinks we can breath Mars

>>8694467
>he thinks we can Mars

>>8694457

Ok maybe not diamond but some ultra rare mineral that can give us a fucking lot of energy like a super uranium for example

>>8694445
>diamonds
>rare

>>8694467
lol

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>>8694470

>super uranium

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>>8694423
>space based telescope array as large as the optics allow.
Optics are allowed to be pretty goddam big. Pic related. We could make telescopes with HUUUUUUUGE apertures from clouds of glitter.

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4553
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/files/Quadrelli_2012_PhI_OrbitingRainbows_.pdf

Born too late to explore the earth, born too soon to visit the stars, born just int time to explore space with ENORMOUS telescopes.

>>8694071
>>8694252
If we can survive a trip to a place 40 light years away, living on planets seems like something only primitives would do.

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>>8694470

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>>8694470
>>SUPER URANIUM
so like plutonium then?

>>8694462
>our nearest neighbor two LY away

Alpha Centauri is 4.24 light years away m8.

also
>our spacecraft travels this fast now, therefore it will never travel faster

is a really stupid argument. Yes the distances are huge and it will likely never be like star trek where people are just zipping all around the galaxy but to say it's outright impossible is dumb.

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>>8694445
>year is 2057
>go to Somalia
>going to meet a guy who's going to sell me a spaceboat 5000 real cheep
>wait for him for like an hour
>he doesn't show
>fuck
>little nigger aproaches
>holyshitwhatnow.jpg
>he says he's hungry
>not gonna give you any of my food nigglett
>remember I have some diamons in my pocket
>they are dirt cheep since we found a diamond factory on Mars ran by ayy lmaos
>like literally 10$/kg
>give some to him
>he looks at me confused
>he tries to eat them
>starts to bleed and cry
>pukes
>kick him in the face for disrespecting me
>go back to communist america
>life is good

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I need some nice science youtube channels/podcasts that will be discussing this. Help me out

>>8694496
so it will be like in avatar? Big ass spaceships full of hybernated people?

>>8694410
That's funny, I noticed the beer link too but I thought it was just coincidence.
>>8694425
I support this motion.

>>8694190
>the whole system could fit within the orbit of Mercury

This little solar system is just too cute.

>>8694462

>speediest

brainlet

>>8694190
We could just bring them over here, it would easily fit.

>>8694445
>>8694470

Anon your heart's in the right place but we've got a shitload of diamonds and deuterium right here.

>>8694503
>I noticed the beer link too but I thought it was just coincidence.


THIS HAS GONE ON LONG ENOUGH...

>This exoplanet system is called TRAPPIST-1, named for The Transiting Planets and Planetesimals Small Telescope (TRAPPIST) in Chile

>>8694505
loli solar system

>>8694514
Nah m8 that's just a backronym, obviously the beer was first.

>>8694505

I'm having a hard time visualizing how that many planets that tightly packed are not going to perturb the shit out of each other's orbits.

>>8694500
Maybe. The ideal would be if we can get this down
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_travel_using_constant_acceleration

>>8694521

They're just very polite to each other.

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>>8694470
THIS JUST IN! A robot powered by atomic batteries recently disintegrated some martian rocks and reports that no super uranium was found!

>>8694522
And why it is hard to achieve this? Why we dont build a big orbinting station around eart wich serves as a launchpad?
Not trolling, im just really ignorant in the matter.

>>8694521
they are based on this magic thing called gravity

>>8694521
They are NASA talked about it during the presentation. Probably the coolest thing about the system imo.

>>8694534
>>8694535

So I am thinking this system is likely to be unstable as fuck.

Better go quick, before they get into a Billiard Ball situation up there.

>>8694533
>And why it is hard to achieve this?

Need a shit-ton of fuel and money
'
>Why we dont build a big orbinting station around eart wich serves as a launchpad?

Doesn't gain you much if you still have to put all your mass in orbit from Earth to get it to the station.

And of course, the ultimate answer to almost all "Why don't they..." questions: Money.

>40 light years
So close!!

>>8694533
Constant acceleration and orbital ship building/launching are different things but here's some of the issues with each

Constant acceleration drives are mostly held back by the need for fuel. Unless we can perfect some kind of small nuclear drive its probably never going to work.

Orbital ship building and launching is probably a more realistic thing with current technology but it would be enormously expensive to build.

>>8694529
Disintegrate more rocks, those were the wrong ones.

>>8694539
They said their orbits are not as regular as the planets in our system because they're all pushing and pulling each other so there's slight changes all the time but they didn't seem to indicate that the whole system is going to fall apart anytime soon. Maybe over time it will get worse though idk.

>>8694544
right around the corner!

The bad thing is that its literally right around the corner in space terms. Space travel is just a dream.

>>8694551
Well. fuck. Does this pone work?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOdbnNOLEU4

>>8694556
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>>8694529

>>8694144
>>8694162
>>8694194
You fellas never read much Ray Bradbury before, did you? ;^)

>>8694205
I wonder how the resonance is.

>>8694228
why did we get the worst fucking system?

>>8694435
We have to keep the peace worldwide because nobody else will.

>>8694425

Those are some pretty comfy planet names desu.

>>8694144
Racists should be put in extermination camps.

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>>8694498
Fixed.

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>>8694173
>covered in asbestos
KEK

>>8694162
The people shipped there will be migrants, by definition.

Also I keep reading in scifi novels about spaceships sucking up interstellar particles that are just floating around and using these for fuel (e.g. by fusion), is that in any way feasible? Seems like you'd need a LOT of free-floating particles to get even a trivial amount of energy.

>>8694177
e is best trapp

>we get there in the multi generational super ship after several hundred years of space travel
>no planets

This shit is stupid
They spend billions on this makework garbage "science" instead of spending the money on practical space colonization efforts

>>8694500

You mean will it be like Trigun.

Avatar was some gray liberal cuckold shit

>>8694410

Trappists are an order of monks, but their beer is great nonetheless.

>>8694589

>le upboat :D

>>8694112
I don't think there is enough room on earth for total population of Jews and Muslims to equal the number of stars in the night sky. We're definitely going somewhere.

>born in a shitty single habitable planet system with big ass distances between everything
>not born in multi planetary comfy solar system with planets next door or habitable moons
>not having more funding spent on space colonization than on military because we have a whole habitable planet or two just in our reaches
>not then setting up interplanetary commerce whose engineering challenges push our space travel capabilities even further
>instead we get constant questions why 0.1% of your tax goes to making pictures of Mars and sci-fiction about planets we can't reach

>>8694615
>space colonization
>practical

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>>8694529

> There is no sign of a selfie stick and its shadow anywhere

FAKE
A
K
E

>>8694634
>>born in a shitty single habitable planet system

By the definition of "habitable" used for exo-planets, we have 3, plus Earth's moon.

The Rappist

>>8694619
Well yeah but only beer made by them can be called Trappist-beer. So in that sense it's a type of beer, namely beer made by trappist monks.

That's how I was taught it anyway.

>>8694553
Calendars would probably be tough

>>8694647
http://www.universetoday.com/122883/why-dont-we-see-the-curiosity-rovers-arm-when-it-takes-a-selfie/

>>8694656

Yep that sounds correct. They didn't name that solar system after a type of strong and tasty beer though, or did they ?

>>8694417
>>8694435

For FY 2016 about 16% of the federal budget went towards the military

Is 16% close to half? I dunno....

>>8694662

Cmon, Trump is a troll ..

>>8694662
>The answer is simple and quite logical. Look any selfie image you’ve taken. Does your hand show up in the picture?
>No, because it is behind the camera.
What complete fuckwad moron wrote this article lmao

>>8694096
>not wanting to form a ring of civilisation always in sunset

>>8694618
>mini solar system
>full of nearby planets to be colonized
NO, Trigun is gay shit for retarded children.

It will be more like Cowboy Bebop or Outlaw Star. Or like Firefly or Killjoys.

I'm kidding /tv/ /a/ 40 light-years is still way too far away for anybody to ever reach, plus all of those little turd planets are tidally locked and blasted by x-rays so they will be sterile and uninhabitable. Have a nice day.

>>8694589
Go back to redit.

>>8694144
the planets are called TRAPP so obviously we're going to populate them with cute feminine girls (male)

>>8694706
Get your deviance out of here.

See >>8694410
>>8694425
>>8694619
>>8694656

It's named after a special type of monk-beer, not your fetish

>>8694658
Dman that's true

wouldn't an atmosphere and big oceans distribute the heat around the planet, if its tidally locked? the temperature difference between the two sides is not necessarily bigger than the difference between day and night on earth.

so i think it comes down to having lots of liquid water like earth, a magnetosphere and an atmosphere.

>>8694234
They would all be visible in the sky, some bigger than the moon

>>8694739
Yea they could still be p nice even if tidally locked. Plus imagine the permanent sunset, pure kino.

>>8694217
Lol!!

>>8694574
we have a massive debris shield. we're pretty fucking lucky for that alone.

>>8694756
Actually life there could develop easier, than on earth. Day and night rythm is not exactly the best circumstance for life to emerge.

My brainlet existence is terrifyed.

>>8694717
No u

>>8694357
Parsec is distance not speed

>>8694609
i wish i could live to see this.

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Has no one really thought about constant earthquakes on those planets?

When I saw those planets so fucking close I quickly thought seismic activity.

Cool NASA, but we'll never be able to go anywhere near there. Lets stay focused on protection of the only planet we as a species will ever exist on okay?

>line of tide locked planets

all it takes is one asteroid to fuck things up

>>8694831
With an Alcubierre warp drive space ship we could actually go there. At much, the trip would take us around 50 years (or less) to get there.

>>8694841
Cool, call me back when you discover negative mass energy and a way to make it

>>8694841
Explain science 2 me

>>8694177
In these planets you get old very very fast

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>>8694071

>>8694853
Post the Asian lady

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>>8694417
DISCRETIONARY BUDGET
I.E WHAT CONGRESS APPOINTS TO EACH ISSUE EACH YEAR
NIGGER-AID IS MUCH LARGER FOR MANDATORY BUDGET

>>8694853
She looks like a male

Is she a trap[spoiler] pist [/spoiler]?

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>>8694855

>>8694849
>he thinks sun based calendars are the only ways to measure time

>>8694841
>Alcubierre warp drive
Impossible.

>>8694841
another 10-20 years, many things we considered today impractical are becoming a reality

patient, and hope we wont go to another world war!

>>8694841
But there's no way to turn that physics model into a working propulsion system, and even if there was everything traveling via this method would be vaporized.

>>8694859
>ayyys are among us, disguised as qt asians

>>8694887
I'll be honest with you - when I was a wee kid, I thought that aliens were around us and that asians were their descendant.

>>8694853
Hmm not seeing it m8 she's still pleasing to look at though

>>8694896
Its the teacher look for me. The green eyes really have an effect on me

>>8694859
adorable

>>8694841
>meme drive

constant acceleration drives are much more realistic.

Why can't we just send some messages to that system and see if anyone replies?

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>>8694841
Well what ever drive we'll use, they said we need like 10 miracles before we can get there, so who knows, maybe its the EM drive, maybe its the eggplant drive, ,maybe even multiple drives? Or maybe its something completely else?

>>8694925
Is this meant to be bait?

Because the earliest possible time you can get a reply you'd be dead.

red dwarfs confirmed for best solar systems to start a civilization.

>homeplanet is tidally locked, which means more efficient use of the sun
>atmosphere and ocean distribute the heat around the planet equally so other side is inhabitable too
>big, inhabitable planets nearby make for easy first steps in space colonization
>radiation from dwarf stars is weaker and therefore less dangerous to life, which makes space travel much easier
>red dwarfs have much lower life expectancy, so colonization is other solar systems is urgent enough to justify allocating large ressources to it
>etc. etc.

yfw born in the wrong kind of solar system

>>8694934
VASIMIR m8. This miracle is in the works

>>8694936
this is a bait and here's your (You)

>>8694925
>send dumb messages
>turns out whole system is an united federation of an advanced militar civilization
>sends back death ray in every timeline to ensure earth is erased on a quantum level

y-you t-too, ayys.

>>8694935
But we can do it anyway

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>>8694944
Huh. Never heard of it, sell it to me senpai, while I read it up

>>8694950
Ok. Sure.

What do you want to say and how do you want to send it laser pulse, RF? How should the message be encoded? Who will be asking? What form do you expect to reply in?

>>8694936
>weaker radiation
aside from you know the SUPER FLARES ever two hours

>lower life expectancy
they're measured in trillions of years

also
>inhabitable

>>8694965
those cute little super flares are still weaker than normal flares by our big mama sun though. those planets probably all have magnetospheres and dont give a fuck about them.

youre right, mixed something up, so i correct my point

>colonization of other solar systems literally not needed because home star lives forever

>>8694960
Nobody woupl probably understand anything so anything that doesn't look natural like the wow signal

damn i want to check that out in spaceengine.
Sounds like a super comfortable system.

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>>8694853
>ancient aliens space scientician
where is this from exactly?
official press release?

>>8694542
>>8694545
thx my niggas

>>8694953
It's the like meme drive, but nobody knows about it because there were not as many tweets.

Soon to be tested on the ISS.

>>8694244
shitty system but GOAT planet

>>8694177
Since they're all so close to each other, won't they have weird as fuck tides?

>>8695069
assuming they have oceans of some kind? yes

Guys I'm a total moron but I still have a few dumb questions regarding space travel, the one I always come as the most important is: what are our options when it comes to extremely long range communications?
I once heard about this one thing I also don't understand much called quantum entanglement, and to the untrained eye it might seem like the perfect mechanic to exploit for instant communication with no regards for distance, but apparently that can't be used for some reason or another, seemed to good to be true anyways.

I always thought "real-time" communications or close enough should be a first step to develop space-faring technology.
What I mean is, if we go to the Moon and something fucks up along the way we can instantly (or almost) get support from the million dudes in the Earth paying attention, if we try to go to Mars and something fucks up seems like you're going to be sold, millions in equipment probably lost, and better not account for human lives.

Are we really fucked with "radio" and non-realtime for now?
Any idea about what can we expect in the near/not so near future?

>>8695047
>he doesn't want cloud cities on Venus or underground malls on Mars
>wanting an ugly red sunlet, or freakish double star system instead of our big glorious golden Sol

Our system is comfy. 3 to 400 days is how long are year should be.

>>8695090
Didn't Nixon have a phone conversation with an astronaut on the moon?

I don't care about the delay on Mars, I prefer text and email anyway. I'll respond when I fucking feel like it. 8 to 30 min is no big deal to a well trained and resourced crew anyway.

>>8695090
FTL communication is impossible. Quantum entanglement has nothing to do with information transfer.

There will never be a grand, unified human space empire.

>>8695090
>what are our options when it comes to extremely long range communications?
You beam a laser at a receiver
And you accept whatever delay

There is no magic instant communication

>>8695043
vasimr is a scam
Other ion drives are better, could be made larger or just grid 100+ of them

>>8695106
so sad when you first realize this is true :(
>tfw you know aliens exist, but we'll never happen to overlap in time and space

>we could go to this place in 20 years if it wasnt for NIGGER-AID
>should we ship all the niggers and muzzies to these planets??
>can we breath on mars

/pol/ fuck off to your hugbox

>>8694108
YOU NEED TO FIRST KNOW WHERE THE FUCK YOU WANT TO GO TO GO ANYWHERE YOU UTTER NIGGER MOMFUCKER.

Otherwise you're literally wasting breath and resources cruising around space.

FUCK I'M MAD.

>>8695106
>Quantum entanglement has nothing to do with information transfer.
Again, I don't know shit about this stuff except at their most shallow level, but when I first heard about it, or rather an oversimplified version of it most likely, the first thing that came to mind is how that property could be used to transfer digital information between two peers. Later I heard it was impossible for some reason, that reason probably related to the missing information due to oversimplification.

>>8695120
>You beam a laser at a receiver
Still seems kind of restricting even for our own solar system.
That will have to do for now I guess.

>>8695103
You can have a phone conversation with someone on the Moon. It will take a couple of seconds between the person talking on one end and the person hearing it on the other. Radio travels slower than the speed of light.

It would take 40 years minimum to communicate a message one way to this solar system.

>>8695151
>biggest racists
>highest intermarriage rate of anyone, far higher than non-Jewish whites

It's almost like you're lying pathologically in the that way violent racists usually do

Wow, such negative comments here regarding NASA and funding.
If we don't look and don't bother to investigate interesting things we don't learn anything or make any progress.
With that attitude we'd still be living on a flat earth.
Where is the human spirit and curiosity?

>>8695169
Fuck you, got mine

>>8695139
No unified human space empire is not the same as
>ywn meet an ayy lmao

well you probably won't but still humanity may encounter aliens at some point, but we will never have a big galaxy spanning unified empire like in a sci fi movie. The laws of the universe simply don't allow it.

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>>8694841
Let's go there. What's stopping you Earthlings?

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>>8694841
This could be you, Earthlings, en-route to Trappist1 system. What's stopping you?

>>8695169
This board seems to be only marginally less infested with Nazi shills//pol/erinas who lack basic human traits like curiosity. Their "curiosity" consists to celebrity gossip and identity politics.

>>8695179
>>8695186
Just hit me up wit dat exotic matter for generating negative mass energy senpai and I'll build one right now.

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>>8694841
This could be you arriving to Trappist1 system. What prevents you from doing this leap, Earthling?

>>8695169
>Where is the human spirit and curiosity?

Jews stole it

>>8695191
And whats stopping you from acquiring it, Earthling? But really?

>>8695199
tiny earthling brain

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>>8694925
Because that would be extremely unwise.

>>8694169
Why would God wanna exterminate us? We're the only ones in the world still trying to save whites and make them completely dominant again.

>>8695262

UUUU

We should look at Europa, it's the closest with possible life.
After that we can look further on the other moons for life, ofcourse we need a mars base to have an easy access point.

>>8694071
Leave? Are you fucking kidding me? 40 LIGHT YEARS AWAY NIGGA.

More like

Are you ready to feel despair as you realize that your lifelong dream of alien contact may be impossible for you but if the planets around this star all develop life at roughly the same time (which they will, give or take a couple of million years, should the inner conditions be met) then maybe right fucking now the first contact is about to be made between those planets and in some hundreds of years the 3 habitable planets will have an interplanetary alliance and will then colonize the other 4 free planets (while we only have the shitty rock that is mars) and have so much fun.

Fuck those planets. I say we nuke them like we did Japan.

>>8694949
>Not threatening them instead by bluffing your part of a super extreme advanced 5-Dimensionall enlightened super race with collective consciousness capable of collapsing the entire multiverse with so much as just a thought

>>8695332
I actually never thought about that. I'm really fucking jealous of those future life forms.

Should life forms develope in different planets on the same solar system, assuming no interplanetary interaction whatsoever, have similar biochemistry?

>>8695192
1. We don't have negative mass energy
2. Muh causality
3. Hawking radiation is produced inside the bubble
4. A gamma ray burst is released coming out of warp from particles that get stuck in the field

4 could be strong enough to destroy entire planets.

I'm surprised nobody's started posting random colony ship designs, even talking about them.

So...
What would be the ideal number of people to put on one, considering there'd be a fairly large number of generations happening before landfall (and that they'd likely be the basis for every person on those planets if we did send them)?

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Only cute traps are allowed in the Trappist System!

>>8695199
Uh well I don't know m8, the fact that we have never seen any negative mass/energy, don't have a means of production for it, and theorized means of producing it are ridiculously huge.

>>8695332
>but if the planets around this star all develop life
their star is a dwarf star, doesn't that affect how/if life develops there? I imagine dwarf stars don't put out as much energy as stars like our Sun do which might be needed for higher life to evolve.

Depending on when the accident of life occurred on these planets, they may be where we are technologically or they may even surpass us. If these planets are already inhabited and in contact, i find it less likely that they are in an alliance, and more likely that they have upon first contact waged wars (as intelligent beings are wont to do when they make first contact with other tribes).

Likely, if all my conjecture is true, these are a set of bad mother fuckers who have been waging space war for centuries and if we showed up one day we'd get our shit pushed in.

>>8695451
Or maybe the planets are tidally locked hmmmmmm really made me think

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>>8695332
>you will never engage in interplanetary war
>you will never fight for your homeworld
>you will forever live in a solar system with only 1 (ONE) intelligent life form


but let's be honest, if life was evolving on 3 planets in the same solar system they'd probably be far apart in terms of development. In an optimistic case you could have one species in the stone age and another in our age. "Competing" species would probably not happen. It'd be incredibly one-sided, and one planet would be just like Europe taking over the world, just on a interplanetary scale.

>>8695458

Tidally locked =/= uninhabitable. If the atmosphere is right it can spread proper amounts of heat to the whole planet. Even if the atmosphere can't do that, the terminator line may still be habitable.

>>8695465
>tmw you can already imagine SJWs in an interplanetary context

>YOU FUCKIN GREEN BLOOBZ!
>PURPLE LIVES MATTER

>>8694771

Which particular area of our ass did you pull that "fact" out of?

>>8695468
>living on a world perpetual tornadoes and hurricanes

Sounds comfy

>>8695465
Thanks for posting that image

>>8694798
Oh, wow, thank you for telling me, had no idea, now I am smart.

>>8694936
>>atmosphere and ocean all frozen on the permanently dark side.

>>8695332
Chances are those planets will be ded with.
In this entire universe we might possible encounter nothing, or we might encounter Literal Human life, which would imply that only "humans" have the capacity for sophisticated inteligence. So no green little men, just chinks and niggers in outer space.
>Tfw literal intergalactic racewar

>>8694071
The way they hyped this I thought they'd have found oxygen in an exoplanets atmosphere or some shit

>>8695082
>Tides are a phenomenon that requires oceans.

>facepalmofplanetaryproportions.mp3

>>8695451
wtf anon, i dont know bout u but im not a accident

>>8695160
Don't feed them. Report, hide and move on.

>>8695192
>What prevents you...

$$$$$

>>8694177
b looks like it's in need of some antibiotics

>>8695449
Available energy falling on a planet from the sun is a function of two things -- how much energy the sun puts out, and how far away the planets are.

Itty trap sun puts out little energy, but planets are very close. Three of the planets appear to be in the "Goldilocks zone" that Venus-Mars are in here in good ol' Sol system.

>>8695169
/sci/ hasn't been good for some time, sadly

>>8695035
yes

>>8694096
>What is heat transfer
>What is an atmosphere

I'll admit tidally locked would have at least one side totally uninhabitable, but if a decent atmosphere exist, with some sort of Cornelius effect, heat from the burning hell side could be spread around, heating up a greater portion than just the twilight ring

>>8694271
>>>/middle school/

>>8694278
>>8694286

it looks really violent

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>>8695443
>means of production
>producing it

So... it all comes down to money and people resources currently being wasted on wars, SJWs, Kardashians and political bullshit.

What if all financial resources were directed to accomplish interstellar travel?

What if Earthling's life purpose would be this sole purpose instead of finding jobs, profit?

>>8694085
>in the constellation Aquarius.
fuck that shit i wanna move to the pleides in taurus
>having a blue sun

>>8694173
i don't know what spooge means but if you mean it looks like someone jizzed on it then yes it does

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>>8694470

>>8695524
>i dont know bout u but im not a accident
it's okay, condoms break all the time.

>>8695425
Literally no fags allowed. It would be impractical to send a people who are not going to reproduce and use valuble resources that could be allocated towards a breeding program. Trans, gays and other "genders" having a high rate of suicide and mental issues, so it would be impractical to send them on a long distant voyage into deep space.

>>8696497
>Colony ship gets 'diverse' crew of every group they can think of
>Couple of suicides after a few years makes some crew members nervous
>They start hunting down people who seem to not want to breed or are weak
>Reproduction is now entirely based on what genes couples have
>Couple of generations later, whole ship has become ambiguously-brown space Nazis