Seven Earth-sized planets found orbiting nearby star

Dr Crayfish

This is a very interesting discovery. I hope we find out more about these planets in my lifetime. Do you think we'll ever achieve interstellar travel?

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/feb/22/thrilling-discovery-of-seven-earth-sized-planets-discovered-orbiting-trappist-1-star

Gwynplaine

Marty Morrissey's home.

stone castle

ryanair negotiating a deal with the aliens to land on the 7 new planets

Dr Crayfish

I wonder how many comments underneath the Guardian article mention Jeremy Corbyn?

skankkuvhima

Nearby? Up near the post office nearby or a bit further?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

stone castle wrote: »

ryanair negotiating a deal with the aliens to land on the 7 new planets

They can take their time with it. Current rockets would take tens of thousands of years to reach them.

stone castle

it's only a 2 hour flight to get there

ShamoBuc

stone castle wrote: »

ryanair negotiating a deal with the aliens to land on the 7 new planets

Think I read that it would take an airline 44 million years to get there , should we really care about something that is so far away?

AtomicHorror

ShamoBuc wrote: »

Think I read that it would take an airline 44 million years to get there , should we really care about something that is so far away?

Should we really care about anything?

We do, so there it is.

stone castle

so you're saying aliens are real?

Permabear

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stone castle

as long as we bring plenty of drink it should be grand

tayto lover

Imagine a planet full of Healy-Raes ????

Cee-Jay-Cee

ShamoBuc wrote: »

Think I read that it would take an airline 44 million years to get there , should we really care about something that is so far away?

It's impossible to even consider taking an airline to them as there is no food that will last that long so the airline crew would die from starvation long before they reached the planets.

CINCLANTFLT

I popped over there on a Bharium Class Star Cruiser... the 2nd planet is awesome... all the popcorn chicken you can eat... waitresses in skimpy outfits and no limits on smokes with the duty free... and their smokes don't cause cancer, make you look awesome when you smoke them and make your knob or boobs 36% bigger for 28 earth minutes!!!

stone castle

you 2 wouldn't be let into the new universe anyway

JOSman

Roman Angry Miner wrote: »

They can take their time with it. Current rockets would take tens of thousands of years to reach them.

€5 each way plus €60 for luggage.

vicwatson

stone castle wrote: »

it's only a 2 hour flight to get there

Unlikely Ryanair will be flying there, although relatively close to us-

"At about 40 light-years (235 trillion miles) from Earth, the system of planets is relatively close to us, in the constellation Aquarius. Because they are located outside of our solar system, these planets are scientifically known as exoplanets.":eek:

BorneTobyWilde

Teddington Cuddlesworth

This is exciting

biko

39 light years away?
Proxima B is only 7,500,000 km away.

Hunchback

biko wrote: »

39 light years away?
Proxima B is only 7,500,000 km away.

I get the feeling I am missing a joke

Knex*

Loved hearing about this today. Imagination goes a bit mental when you read stuff like this:

The planets also are very close to each other. If a person was standing on one of the planet’s surface, they could gaze up and potentially see geological features or clouds of neighboring worlds, which would sometimes appear larger than the moon in Earth's sky.

Someone over on reddit has the main points summarised here, if anyone wants them.

1) Spitzer detects 7 earth size planets around the TRAPPIST-1 Star System
2) 40 light years away
3) 3 planets are in the right zone for liquid water
4) Have measured the masses and radi of earth-size planets
5) Can look at atmosphere and bio-signatures
6) Planets are close to each other, you would see them similarly as you would see Earth’s moon.
7) Planets are so close, they interact gravitationally on each other.
8) Trappist-1e is very close in size to earth. It receives a similar amount of light as Earth does.
9) Trappist-1f (MIGHT) be water-rich and similar in size as earth (NASA just said currently no detection of water). Receives about as much light as Mars.
10)Trappist-1g is largest in the system, 13% larger radius than Earth. Receives about as much light as Mars and the Asteroid belt.

Somewhere between 5 and 10 years we should have some sort of atmospheric composition data for these planets as well. Fascinating stuff, imo.

stone castle

just accept your stuck on this planet,

there;s no alien utopia

Jimbob1977

stone castle wrote: »

ryanair negotiating a deal with the aliens to land on the 7 new planets

Their spaceports will be located 20,000 miles outside the Alien Capital city

The_Valeyard

It's in the Trappist system


TRAPpist system.......


ITS A TRAP

corner of hells

CINCLANTFLT wrote: »

I popped over there on a Bharium Class Star Cruiser... the 2nd planet is awesome... all the popcorn chicken you can eat... waitresses in skimpy outfits and no limits on smokes with the duty free... and their smokes don't cause cancer, make you look awesome when you smoke them and make your knob or boobs 36% bigger for 28 earth minutes!!!

You did in your bollix , everyone knows you get seasick on the drive to Skerries.

Grayson

Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »

It's impossible to even consider taking an airline to them as there is no food that will last that long so the airline crew would die from starvation long before they reached the planets.

I'm pretty certain the food on some budget airlines is indestructible.

JackTaylorFan

The google homepage animation to celebrate this discovery is actually quite funny

-=al=-

Jimbob1977 wrote: »

Their spaceports will be located 20,000 miles outside the Alien Capital city

Just a 20 minute bus journey from the spaceport to the capital for a fee of 56,999 schmeckles

jamesbere

-=al=- wrote: »

Just a 20 minute bus journey from the spaceport to the capital for a fee of 56,999 schmeckles

What's the exchange rate euro to schmeckles

-=al=-

jamesbere wrote: »

What's the exchange rate euro to schmeckles

1 schmeckle = €140.29 :pac:

jamesbere

-=al=- wrote: »

1 schmeckle = €140.29 :pac:

Was alot better before brexit

Noo

JackTaylorFan wrote: »

The google homepage animation to celebrate this discovery is actually quite funny

Made me smile! Very cute.

JackTaylorFan

Noo wrote: »

Made me smile! Very cute.

I know, right?

CINCLANTFLT

corner of hells wrote: »

You did in your bollix , everyone knows you get seasick on the drive to Skerries.

Fair enough... I might have had my head in the jacks for the trip over... but after those big boobed waitresses and popcorn chicken I felt super! Also they have pills in the local version of Tesco that stop motion sickness and makes your poop into confetti! Farts are a scream now I can tell you!

Patser

If they have religion there, would they be
Trappist monks?




Please don't hate me....



Bet their beer would be out of this world!





Ok, I'll get my coat.....

CINCLANTFLT

Patser wrote: »

If they have religion there, would they be
Trappist monks?




Please don't hate me....



Bet their beer would be out of this world!





Ok, I'll get my coat.....

They have an awesome religion where everyone gets their own god... I was given Bill Murray, but I think you could ask for a Trappist monk... I then traded Bill in for Salma Hayek when she was a hot dancer in From Dusk to Dawn... then I found own the vampire version of her was my own personal devil! So I changed back to Bill Murray and found out the corresponding devil was Christie Moore after a visit to Shell to Sea!!!

The beer was good though

AudreyHepburn

Very interesting and exciting news - who knows what else is out there waiting to be discovered!

dar100

AudreyHepburn wrote: »

Very interesting and exciting news - who knows what else is out there waiting to be discovered!

Is that really you Audrey??

LaFuton

we have been becoming the sci-fi of yesteryear for some time now, space colonization and mining are inevitable i think...

anyone else thinking of that new sci fi show The Expanse (which is actually quite good)

hopefully the megarich arsehole planet****ers leave first as per my theories leaving earth to the poorer but more environmentally conscious folk

gramar

40 light years away.
Light travels 300,000km in second.
A billion km in an hour 1,080,000,000.
Current space rockets go at about 30,000km/h
That's 4 years to travel the time light takes 1 hour to travel.
360,000 hours of travel x 1,080,000,000km per hour.

360,000x1,080,000,000 = distance
/ 30,000 avg speed = 12,960,000,000 hours or 540,000,000 days or 1,479,452 years. Give or take.
What really is the point?

Four Phucs Ache

I bet if their is life on one of them planets more advanced than us they could have sent a space probe our way a looong time ago, by the time we send ours and it gets on its way the 2 of them will fooking collide in the middle and we will never know.
When this happens ther will probably be a 2nd or 3rd 1000 year old tree over my grave or an ocean so as exciting as it is I'm now going to have a nice coffee and a smoke.

LordSutch

Don't mess wit de Aliens.

Look what happened to John Hurt!

Leave them be I say...

Riddle101

You now when we view these planets we're actually looking at them in the past. The amount of time it takes for the light from TRAPPIST-1 to travel here would make it look as if we're witnessing it in the past as opposed to it's present self. For all we know the star could have been destroyed but we wouldn't know about it. In fact if they were to look at us right now. They'd see our planet from the way it was 39 years ago. Of course nothing much would have changed for us visually over the last 39 years, But still....

topper75

AudreyHepburn wrote: »

Very interesting and exciting news - who knows what else is out there waiting to be discovered!

Academically curious. And that is about it I'm afraid.

The light we have just observed left that place when John Lennon was playing concerts here.
Light, mind, not a rocket.

I'm not so excited.

jamesbere

gramar wrote: »

40 light years away.
Light travels 300,000km in second.
A billion km in an hour 1,080,000,000.
Current space rockets go at about 30,000km/h
That's 4 years to travel the time light takes 1 hour to travel.
360,000 hours of travel x 1,080,000,000km per hour.

360,000x1,080,000,000 = distance
/ 30,000 avg speed = 12,960,000,000 hours or 540,000,000 days or 1,479,452 years. Give or take.
What really is the point?

So which bus should I take?

OneOfThem Stumbled

It's unlikely to have any complicated alien life (if any at all) as it seems to be a very young system (may only be half a billion years old). In comparison our solar system is nine times older.

Incidentally, everything on Earth will be incinerated half a billion years from now :eek:

Wanderer78

OneOfThem Stumbled wrote:

Incidentally, everything on Earth will be incinerated half a billion years from now

Oh we may not have to wait that long, with the way things are going at the moment

OneOfThem Stumbled

Wanderer78 wrote: »

Oh we may not have to wait that long, with the way things are going at the moment

It's a best case scenario :pac:

JackTaylorFan

I really wanna play the new Mass Effect already