They've discovered fossil fuels on another planet. Oil companies have already launched oil drilling probes.
NASA to Unveil New Exoplanet Discovery Tomorrow
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#23They've discovered fossil fuels on another planet. Oil companies have already launched oil drilling probes.
if that is what it took to explore space I would actually sign on. alas we are probably two or more generations from actually being on more than one rock in our own system
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#24NASA press release about the upcoming press conference: https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-to-host-news-confere... I find it surprising that the details are embargoed by the journal Nature until tomorrow. I haven't heard of such an embargo before - anyone know why this might be? Maybe it's related to Nature publication timing, or waiting until Nature's own press release is ready?
At least in astronomy, this is pretty standard when publishing in Nature or Science. Typically all the press releases are coordinated together with the release of the actual publication.
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#25This is really cool. One day I'm going to build my own observatory and observe star light curves and survey for supernovae.
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#26They've discovered fossil fuels on another planet. Oil companies have already launched oil drilling probes.
Because oil tanker starships with crews in cold sleep passing near uninhabited planets worked out so well in fiction, we just have to try it in practice.
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Yeah!!! The way in which we detect them is so incredible: either by noticing the periodic slight decrease in light as the exoplanet orbits its star, or by noticing the periodic slight wobble of the star around it and its expolanet's joint center of mass. When you think of what a tiny difference we're measuring, of something so dim and so far away, and the fact that we're able to actually resolve those things––it's ju…
Imagine there's an alien civilisation (very similar to our levels of tech) on that exoplanet, looking back at us. Would they be able to detect Earth? How about Jupiter?
If they have a 10 meter telescope in space, they may very well have the technology to see Earth.
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#28This is really cool. One day I'm going to build my own observatory and observe star light curves and survey for supernovae.
I hope that you do exactly that.
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#29This could be something very interesting. There have already been big exoplanet discoveries, such as planets in the habitable zone, and those with water and oxygen, so this announcement should be beyond that. Looking forward to it.
Actually I don't think oxygen has been detected in any exoplanet atmosphere. And typically the atmospheres in which water has been detected are large Jovian exoplanets. My sense is that we don't yet have the telescopes/instrumentation to detect things like oxygen in the atmosphere of an Earth-sized planet in the habitable zone.
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#30That website brings my MBP to a crawl. I was sure I would have to do a hard reboot after Chrome stopped responding for several seconds. For some reason, they want to know my location, they have popups that don't close, and more ads than content.
Oh and there was nothing to be learned beyond the headline.