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That actually sounds... more plausible than I would have expected. Like, doable with technology I can imagine being within reach in the next 50 years even if we don't achieve any currently-unforseen breakthroughs.
Is it plausible for anything we'd build to travel .998c and survive the journey?
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Optically? That's nuts! Anyone know how this would work? Can we really expect Webb to measure light diffraction/refraction through a few miles of atmosphere on a planet 40 ly away?
It'll be in the near-infrared, but the light won't be separated from the star. How they observe the atmosphere is that when the exoplanets transit, they block out different amounts of light at different wavelengths. From that, one can deduce an atmospheric spectrum.
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I was essentially thinking the same thing. I wonder if an elevator could be built between all of them?
One of the callers (a biologist, so not a crackpot) on TV suggested that given how close the planets were, he wondered if it were possible for there to be cross contamination between the planets given how close they are to each other. He referred to them being part of the same "ecosystem." I'm not sure how feasible that is as a non-astrobiologist, but it is an interesting idea.
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Is it plausible for anything we'd build to travel .998c and survive the journey?
Just going that fast isn't really risky at all (assuming you don't hit anything, which isn't actually a safe assumption). The tough part is making something capable of a constant 1g of acceleration for a 7 year trip. Most of the craft we make only accelerate for the first small percent of a trip. We can do accelerations that high, but not for very long, and we can't even manage acceleration for such a long duration e…
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Is it plausible for anything we'd build to travel .998c and survive the journey?
Just going that fast isn't really risky at all (assuming you don't hit anything, which isn't actually a safe assumption). The tough part is making something capable of a constant 1g of acceleration for a 7 year trip. Most of the craft we make only accelerate for the first small percent of a trip. We can do accelerations that high, but not for very long, and we can't even manage acceleration for such a long duration e…
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It doesn't work in Microsoft Edge either (yup I use it).
Is this taboo? I also use Edge and find it great.
The battery life is really good though.
So, are there any plans to try to "communicate" with this planets? Or we are going to just sit and watch.
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That's essentially what blueprint said. You didn't have any trouble figuring out what blueprint was saying, right?
What's wrong with begs the question? It's a regular part of my vocabulary and I'm a southern American.