New Earth-like planets found?
 

Wonderful potentially habitable worlds around TRAPPIST-1 | The Planetary Society

Pretty cool! SmileWavy

There is a reddit AMA going on today - started at 3 EST

Yes but who wants a 12 day year :)

Until further info is found, I will take Bob Kontak's PVC sheets over the new planets. I simply need more "kazaaammm" to sell me on these new planet thingees. Price is right. Location is not a good commuter distance.

It may be a good place for Donald Trump.

They can only see a slight, but barely measurable, blink of light when the planets are crossing the sight to the sun. And yet they know that the planets are potentially habitable Earth-like worlds?
What a waste of time and money!

So, why are we still aiming at Mars?

... and too many artist representations over all on those subjects.

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Light left there Forty some years ago.

The Reddit response was it would be a 160,000 year trip to send a probe/rocket

I saw this news article on PBS news this morning about the dwarf star.

Relatively close to us location is also the most Earth-Like planet announcement ever, and all around one star is unheard of.

Wonderful potentially habitable worlds around TRAPPIST-1 | The Planetary Society
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It's also Ninja day in Japan...................not connected, just a PBS thing.

The system is 39 light years away. SO we are seeing them right now as they were 39 years ago. Just a meager 234 trillion miles away.

The chances of intelligent civilization advanced to a point to have discovered radio is slim. We humans only have been transmitting radio with any power for 70 or 80 years, and only in the advanced countries.

Communicating with them in any form is a pipe dream. Traveling there is not going to happen in the next many thousands of years.

How do they know that?

They did the math.

I only went up to Calculus-4, don't ask me I'm a dummy compared to them.:D

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/watch-heres-nasa-may-found-beyond-solar-system/
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VIDEO
NASA announces seven, potentially habitable Earth-like planets exist in our celestial backyard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuwpBoIbSrA
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The video gives a good explanation for their thinking on this - no math required.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1487882643.jpg

Assume we established a communication method with the inhabitants.
How would the first conversation go? E.g. ...

Earth to Planet: "We have a nice planet here that we have kept in good condition. We are a friendly people. We want to visit your planet, are you accepting visitors?

Planet to Earth: We've studied your planet for the last 10,000 years. We are not accepting visitors at this time.

Outstanding!

it's a bit of a stretch... The planets presence is detected deom the slight dimming of the light of that sun when the planet passes in front... And the earth-like assertion is based on the possibility of water on it, based on its proximity to the sun (goldilock zoen, it's closer to its sun but its sun is less potent).. no conclusive proof of that though... Hell of a gamble if you somehow could take a one way trip ! ;-)

too new to have O2 in the atmosphere most likely
if under 500m years old but neat that they are finding so many

As soon as the Webb starts to get images it will confirm or disprove many of these speculations...