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The Webb Search for Extraterrestrial Life Has Begun
Posted on 7/27/22 at 8:17 am
Posted on 7/27/22 at 8:17 am
JWST's First Image Of TRAPPIST-1 – One Of Our Best Candidates For Finding Life
Webb took a 5-hour look at the Trappist system. The data is open to anyone who wants to analyze it. NASA scientists will look for biomarkers and, perhaps, industrial pollutants in the atmospheres.
We may know very soon, if not from Trappist then some other system, whether we’ve got close neighbors in the galaxy.
How will a confirmation of ET life elsewhere affect you?
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“Our goal,” principal investigator of a JWST program surveying four of the seven TRAPPIST-1 planets, Olivia Lim, told The Planetary Society, "is to tell whether the planets TRAPPIST-1b, c, g, and h have an atmosphere or not, and to do that, we will try to detect features of molecules such as carbon dioxide, water, and ozone in the transit spectra of those planets.”
Webb took a 5-hour look at the Trappist system. The data is open to anyone who wants to analyze it. NASA scientists will look for biomarkers and, perhaps, industrial pollutants in the atmospheres.
We may know very soon, if not from Trappist then some other system, whether we’ve got close neighbors in the galaxy.
How will a confirmation of ET life elsewhere affect you?
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Posted on 7/27/22 at 8:18 am to Kentucker
quote:me? None. Several large religions? Some explanations will be required.
How will a confirmation of ET life elsewhere affect you?
Posted on 7/27/22 at 8:18 am to Kentucker
SETI anyone?
Posted on 7/27/22 at 8:22 am to HeadSlash
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SETI anyone?
Webb will be SETI on steroids.
Posted on 7/27/22 at 8:25 am to Kentucker
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told The Planetary Society, "is to tell whether the planets TRAPPIST-1b, c, g, and h have an atmosphere or not
Why not D E And F? Those are the ones in the habitable zone
Posted on 7/27/22 at 8:25 am to Kentucker
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industrial pollutants in the atmospheres.
“How intelligent life on other planets caused climate change and why we need government regulation on Earth” - CNN probably
Posted on 7/27/22 at 8:25 am to Kentucker
Another distraction for the mouth breathers to eat up
Posted on 7/27/22 at 8:30 am to Kentucker
Lmfao why do they even release these? Just say your team is analyzing the data
Posted on 7/27/22 at 8:33 am to Kentucker
Assuming they find something or someone out there, WTF are they gonna do about it then?
Posted on 7/27/22 at 8:36 am to hubertcumberdale
Holy pixelated mess
Posted on 7/27/22 at 8:36 am to Kentucker
It's amazing how much "g" resembles earth. What a telescope!
Posted on 7/27/22 at 8:36 am to Kentucker
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How will a confirmation of ET life elsewhere affect you?
Ignoring that, life elsewhere wouldn’t affect me at all.
Posted on 7/27/22 at 8:40 am to GeauxxxTigers23
Good catch. No idea. Maybe the sizes and compositions of the planets are different? G is at the edge of the habitable zone but b and c would seem to be too hot.
Posted on 7/27/22 at 8:44 am to Kentucker
Looking at the diagram, the whole solar system fits inside the orbit of Mercury here. Good luck finding life that’s not burning to death.
7 planets closer to their star than Mercury is to the Sun.
This post was edited on 7/27/22 at 8:46 am
Posted on 7/27/22 at 8:48 am to Kentucker
AND and evidence of life will be immediately silenced.
Posted on 7/27/22 at 8:48 am to TheHarahanian
The Trappist 1 star is only 9% the mass of our Sun, and its temperature is much cooler. But because its planets orbit so closely to the star, they receive comparable levels of light and heat to Earth and its neighboring planets.
Posted on 7/27/22 at 8:50 am to Kentucker
What kind of life?
Posted on 7/27/22 at 8:50 am to TheHarahanian
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Looking at the diagram, the whole solar system fits inside the orbit of Mercury here. Good luck finding life that’s not burning to death.
7 planets closer to their star than Mercury is to the Sun.
I think I read somewhere God has multiple sizes and wattages of light bulbs.
Posted on 7/27/22 at 8:52 am to Tempratt
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evidence of life will be immediately silenced.
That’s not possible with our system. All of the data has been released and is available to everyone on earth to analyze.
Posted on 7/27/22 at 8:52 am to TheHarahanian
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ooking at the diagram, the whole solar system fits inside the orbit of Mercury here. Good luck finding life that’s not burning to death. 7 planets closer to their star than Mercury is to the Sun.
From the diagram it looks like the sun is much smaller than ours
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