Nasa announcement at 13:00 today

The arabs and haitians are already lining up to get their taxi permits for transporting people between planets
 
C'est remarquable comme découverte serieusement. On est loin d'avoir un breakthrough life changing mais c'est vraiment plus gros que les decouvertes des années passées. 39 ligh year away par contre.
 
Si la NASA tient un point de presse aujourd'hui c'est qu'il ont fait la découverte il y a quelques années :)
 
S'ils découvrent du pétrole sur une autre planète, c'est certain que les États-Unis vont vouloir intervenir pour rétablir la démocratie sur celle-ci.
 
C'est tu moi ou la Chinoise qui fait la moderation de la conference de presse pourrait faire des voiceovers de Hamsteroo?
 
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Absolutely no indication that the planets are water rich btw... just that they *could* be. I'm not even sure we have the tool to confirm that yet when talking about other star systems. Fuck, we are still wondering if there is/was running water on Mars and moons of Saturn & Jupiter.
 
C'est remarquable comme découverte serieusement. On est loin d'avoir un breakthrough life changing mais c'est vraiment plus gros que les decouvertes des années passées. 39 ligh year away par contre.

368971200000000 km away.

on pourrait y aller en tercel c'est pas tuable. jsuis sur quon srend sans changer lhuile.
 
368,971,200,000,000 km away

Fastest travel speed ever recorded 62,00km/h

We should get there in 690,354 years.



Do they have any promising technology or is still just a very distant dream?
 
Imagine the free healthcare they could have had for all that money, not sure if they reached or passed already the trillion dollar mark with all this space crap. And then there comes a 32 mile wide asteroid to hit reset on the planet earth.
 
Absolutely no indication that the planets are water rich btw... just that they *could* be. I'm not even sure we have the tool to confirm that yet when talking about other star systems. Fuck, we are still wondering if there is/was running water on Mars and moons of Saturn & Jupiter.

If the planet has an atmosphere, when it passes in front of it's sun, they can measure the way the photons are affected by passing through the atmosphere and determine it's composition.
 
If the planet has an atmosphere, when it passes in front of it's sun, they can measure the way the photons are affected by passing through the atmosphere and determine it's composition.

It's actually relatively simple by using light waves and prisms.


Elements absorb a specific light wave frequency and the color spectrum or rainbow the planet "emits" (although it would reflect or refract in this case) would have "blank" spots showing which elements are present.

As Sherlock Holmes would say: Elementary...
 
Yup but it still won't indicate the presence of liquid water on the surface. The planet could have a surface temp of 130celcius, a heavy atmosphere full of water vapor and not be habitable.
 
Yup but it still won't indicate the presence of liquid water on the surface. The planet could have a surface temp of 130celcius, a heavy atmosphere full of water vapor and not be habitable.

In the press conference - I watched it - they state that the temperature of 3/7 planets is between 0~100°C which makes water liquid unless there is very little atmospheric pressure (water would vaporise at a cooler temperature if there is lower pressure, that's how clouds and rain work.)

Incidentally:

https://publiclab.org/sites/default/files/8.5x11mini-spec3.8.pdf

Cut out origami mini-sprectrometry adapter for phones. Requires a free app to work.
 
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