>7 potentially habitable planets all very close to each other >if humanity started on one of those planets, we would have started colonizing the others decades ago >it's literally the setting for a utopia
Anyone else feel pretty shitty that they weren't born there? I just want to die. Fuck earth, eat shit and die.
implying we actually know anything about what their surfaces would be like
Luis Ramirez
I'm pretty glad we don't have the opportunity to destroy 7 planets instead of 1, yes.
Evan Watson
potentially habitable planets all very close to each other
3, the other four are outside the "habitable" zone.
Here in our little corner of the galaxy, we have three planets in the "habitable" zone as well.
Ryder Hall
POSSIBLY tidally locked
Kevin Thomas
> Nasa announces Earth-like planets > """""Earth-like""""" > """""Earth"""""" > mountains, water, green shit, animals, intelligent-humanoid-life
Charles Lee
*earth sized
do you actually think they know what a planet looks like thats 40 lightyears away?
Lincoln Parker
> yfw you realize that we have big ass telescopes that can see the big bang, and 40 lightyears is next door to us
Aaron Perry
Let me repeat myself, they have NO idea what the surfaces of these planets look like whatsoever
Adrian Sanchez
This is like our 100000th fucking thread on this.
I hate to red-dwarf pill you, but there is a good chance these planets aren't in fact habitable. They are probably bathed in intense radiation because they are so close to the star:
>>subjected to torrents of X-ray and extreme ultraviolet radiation from superflares occurring roughly every two hours. >>subjected to torrents of X-ray and extreme ultraviolet radiation from SUPERFLARES occurring roughly EVERY TWO HOURS. >>SUPERFLARES >>EVERY TWO HOURS
Wyatt Anderson
Life would evolve to withstand radiation no?
Carter Ortiz
Yes it would, the life form on those planets probably feed off of superflares and radiation
David King
Or you know, die.
Jordan Diaz
then post a pic of the planet that looks like anything discernible
Nathan Jenkins
m8 we don't know what they look like they even explained this in the conference.
We see them as nothing more than repeated dimming patterns when we look at their host star.
Ryder Rivera
You guys probably think the Earth is flat as well, top zozzle xD
Jonathan Foster
This also blows away the atmosphere
Carter Fisher
Sure it does, and I know that. Chances are, some cool science shit happens and the life forms on those planets exhale a compound that rebuilds the atmosphere in a few seconds.
Henry Bell
Surely the ones in the similar habitable zone like us could have an atmosphere too like us?
Logan Price
lmao this isnt a youtube conspiracy, they actually dont know what the surface looks like. Youre one of those brainlets that eats up those artists renderings that look straight out of a sifi film.
Hunter Gonzalez
dwarf star has dwarf radiation.
Dominic Sullivan
Yep, chances are soooo much higher for life to evolve to such a complex form in an inhospitable environment, rather than, you know, just be wiped out in a fundamental state.
Justin Price
>Sifi
Grayson Moore
IMO the only thing a planet needs is tons of liquid water (e.g. at least half of the planet covered in it, and surface temperature 0-50C) and all the other things will eventually happen somehow.
Ryan Green
>tfw you realize OP is projecting L0L
Anthony Young
Opinion based on?
Last time I looked, we had one data point. Hard to figure odds form that.
Hunter Moore
Earth is a very lucky place. No way man could have risen to the heights we have without all those fossil fuels to get us going.
While life my be sort of common, intelligent life (by human standards) is most probably quite rare.
Owen Lee
Are you american?
Caleb Carter
Planet wars and apsce bombing
Brody Robinson
the JWST will supposedly be able to directly image exoplanets
Gabriel Kelly
isn't there a branch of biology dedicated to studying life-forms in extreme conditions (s/a in volcanoes, icebergs, etc)?
Christopher Perez
We can only ballpark the gravity on those planets, we have no fucking idea what the planets are even like aside from approximations of mass/size. For all we know they could be devoid of anything useful to us.
I hate that I will die before we can become interplanetary (if we ever do), but from what we've seen so far, we literally could not ask for a better planet. Earth is like winning a multibillion dollar jackpot.
Appreciate what we have OP.
Christian Perez
>humans are shit!!! >muh environment
Fuck outta here
Logan Sanders
>appreciates confirmation bias reinforcement way to sound like a delusional idiot who thinks everything is a spechul gift from a magic huffbag
Aaron Sullivan
Archaea could probably evolve in some form, they're known extremophiles. I haven't come across any that can resist massive doses of radiation or lack of atmosphere, but... anything's possible
Hate to break it to you, but red dwarfs are probably shite.
Adrian Nelson
I will bust a science nut if this actually happens
Liam Gomez
I don't know what you're expecting but basically it's going to be a pixely dot.
Chase Jackson
Reminder Venus and Mars are in the habitable zone of a better star. We'll soon know more with JW but I'm willing to bet my virginity they are just useless wastelands.
Carter Carter
so no ayylmaos?
Ian Green
40 light years away is way too far anyway, it would take us 200,000 years to get there We'll probably never colonise other planets, the only ones close enough pose too many challenges and offer little reward.
Tyler Williams
>soon know more with JW >scheduled for October 2018 >will probably be delayed >will probably blow up on the pad
Jackson Thompson
more or less, yes. you can study them, see, if water is present, the composition of the atmosphere. you probably could even detect artificial influences like industrial scaled smoke.
Adam Cook
>delayed >under Trump Under budget and ahead of schedule, buddy
James Ramirez
We just got shit spawn Go back to main menu and start a new game
Luke Gonzalez
The moon is tidally locked to the earth. The distance between the star and planets is only a few times farther, and they're much more massive than the Earth-Moon system, so it would make sense that they're tidally locked.
Lucas Nelson
Maybe one of these planets is entirely made out of magnets.
Asher Lee
If science SOMEHOW came up with a way to go superluminal in the next few years, how long would it be (also assuming first missions found habitable conditions) before we were sending LOTS of equipment and people?
William Mitchell
depends mostly on the money, I'd say very quickly if they find valuable stuff there
Grayson Cox
Literally no life can withstand a red dwarf blasting radiation down their throats
The radiation is so intense it shreds atoms apart. So unless life is extremely adaptable then it would get ripped apart