I'm really excited Veeky Forums. I'm a near highschool graduate (ending half of senior year) and recently the talk of debt and and college choice and scholarships are freaking me out. I've been forgetting why I want to go to college. But the recent announcement about Trappist 1 made me remember why I'm doing what I'm doing. I'm going in Astrophysics, and was recently accepted into RIT's Physics program and plan to go to grad school their for Astrophysics. The excitement and passion I felt when reading about Trappist 1 woke me up as to why I'm doing this, and it makes all the work and stress and debt worth it, if I could just be part of the group of people who find these planets and help Colonize and explore. Nothing really important ITT, I just remembered why I chose to pursue science
>Inb4 tidally locked shit hole
Yeah but it's still exciting, the simple miniscule possibility of another habitable world is too exciting to be that cynical about it
Nathaniel Hernandez
Well help explore, I guess observation wise from Earth. Although I hope by the time I'm at least 50 we have started colonizing other places. Obviously not those worlds but maybe Mars or Titan or Ceres or somewhere in our solar system. If not then we're a fucked race and I hope to be reborn as a space alien
Jonathan Cook
>Trappist 1
ITS A TRAP
Anthony Young
>ITS A TRAP
All the more reason we need to go
Christian Sullivan
remember to work hard with your goals in mind.
Landon Smith
>near highschool graduate underage b&
Brandon Ortiz
>and help colonize kek good luck inventing interstellar travel and terraforming
Ryan Collins
Religious Trappist
Not mentally ill Trappist
Austin Brooks
tidally locked planet can't sustain life is a meme that needs to die asap. The spin is not important to even out the temperature of a planet, an atmosphere and oceans are. So if one of those planets has a atmosphere that is neither too thin nor too thick, and has tons of water on its surface, than that planet will more than likely harbour life. Period.
Hudson Morales
however thanks to the extreme temperature differences present on a tidally locked planet as well as the near unidirectional winds, over the course of its existence its surface water will be transported towards the night side where it will be stored in the form of ice
Jason Clark
Many high school seniors are 18.
Adam Bennett
>that planet will more than likely harbour life You can't make such a ridiculous claim without more information, brainlet.
Jackson Barnes
"18yo senior" is a meme
Gabriel Kelly
nah mate, large liquid oceans will at some point develop life, and that life will spread. easy as that.
Jack Gutierrez
the surface temperature on venus is almost completely evenly distributed. venus is practically tidally locked. if venus had a thinner atmosphere, and had it large quantities of water, it would look a lot like earth.
Logan Stewart
>I'm a near highschool graduate
Stopped reading here.
Noah Johnson
There is a major difference between practically tidally locked and tidally locked Over time Venus has had every point of its surface exposed to sunlight (well would have if not for that atmosphere) countless times, on a tidally locked planet this would never happen.
This exposure would prevent the glacial buildup.
Levi Davis
around half of high school seniors are 18 by graduation
Mason Hill
>Implying humanity will ever fucking leave this rock
If we were EVER going to colonize some place, it would have been the moon and it would have been years ago.
I highly doubt in this lifetime we will have the knowledge or funding to support people on other planets for more than a few years.
Jaxon Russell
>nah mate, large liquid oceans will at some point develop life,
Or they won't, one of the two. We don't have any data, other than that it happened once. Plotting probabilities from one data point is tricky.
Caleb Johnson
I was 2 years into college when I turned 18
Lucas Rodriguez
I highly doubt you are right
Samuel Butler
>you were born too early for interstellar travel
Jayden Williams
that's nice OP. it's nice to still be young and be naive and have ideals.
good luck.
Carter Turner
>implying there will ever be human interstellar travel.
Josiah Hughes
We can't even sustain ourselves on earth lmao. I think we need to solve our ecological existential crisis first. Astrophysics is still pretty cool
Justin Nelson
Cool, many high school seniors are 18
Lucas Richardson
What if we solved it by leaving this shithole to shitskins?
Sebastian Martin
Its a depressing thought, isn't it?
Perhaps the reason we haven't seen any ayys, or will ever see any ayys, is there simply is no solution to FTL travel. Its just not in any way possible.
So we're bound for eternity on our little wet ball of rock.
Jason Harris
Kys
Andrew Sullivan
>Help >Add contributions that will eventually help lead to these things over time
Benjamin Wood
I like to believe, that what keeps humans pioneering is the mental image of something that seems impossible. The day we cannot think of anything else to invent or to make, that's the day we die out. Faster than light travel will take a long ass time, but we can imagine it, and it seems that once humans cling onto something it's hard to get them off. Just my opinion, it's alot less cynical anyways
Jaxson Bennett
>Implying traps aren't modified to be the best house wives and lovers
Gtfo here with that bullshit
Christian Wilson
nothing will ever lead to these things though. there is no possible technology that will ever allow humanity to travel outside our solar system. why not focus on more realistic scientific goals?