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We need some small stickers like the one they had with Biden pointing, saying "I did this", but instead with Trump saying, " I didn't fix this."

Put one on each Tesla.

So if the mass of this planet is closer to earth's mass, the surface gravity could actually be less than earths.

So how do we get there?

This interesting. Question is, how much will Trump tariff it?

I see this and think Superman

Two gasses only created by life here on Earth... But Hycean Worlds differ from Earth. So a standard scientific process of presenting all competing alternatives to life to see if they can be ruled out is indicated.

Let’s send Elon to verify it all!

Only 2 million years away by current rocket propulsion.

Won't go through the math again, but planet K2-18b is very lucky in the fact even if humans built a spaceship that could travel as fast as the Parker Space Probe it would still take us about 187,000 years to reach that planet.....

How heavy would we be there?

Is this the next realm!!??? 🧐 🧐

I remain dubious

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Let's walk over and start afresh, shall we? Ready Ark B

How large a rocket do you need to escape that gravity well?

Any intelligent creatures that evolved on a planet that size but have a very hard time getting into orbit to explore space.

Cool, cool, cool; tight, tight, tight. When can we send a few millionaires and one obnoxious billionaire...preferably one-way?

And if technological, their space programme will be severely hindered.

So glad they may find life on K2-18b. If they detect it on LV-426…stay the hell away!

Trump will annex K2-18b for national security reasons along with access to its rare minerals.

"Sir, we have a ping." "... Space farts?" "Space farts."

Skepticism is good, vital, and warrented for gaining Scientific truth. Fantasy is also essential to good mental health . Give me both.

Of course I'd read the story. Just seemed to me that you kind of overstated the info in the report. I'll be thrilled the day we find any life form elsewhere (as we know it: there could theoretically be some we can't currently perceive). I'm sure there is, was, or will be other life in the universe.

Road trip? Anybody?

Yo Elon, go check it out.

That is how science advances, through scepticism and testing. Headlines are there just to attract attention.

🙂

Can we send Elon there?

Trump is looking to make it the 52nd state…

Now, if we could only get there!!!!! We don’t even have the means to get a probe there from the article I read earlier.

The gravity would crush us.

Here we go

Hello alien life forms! 👋

There a billions of planets that have or had life. No question.

Misleading.

Yeah, but no. CH4 and CO2 are not only created through biology. We have many planets in our own solar system that contain these gasses. It might be a sign of life or is might not be.

124 light years. 124 x 6 trillion miles.

I would probably have twice the mass of Earth. Just standing there must be really hard.

We recently got a radio message from it, "fuck off"

Was it an alien fart the JWT picked up?🤣

Earth 2.5? I’ll need to lose some weight before I go there. I imagine the gravity allows for different looking inhabitants. Is aging a product of time. If time is slower would we age slower, or would it seem the same even if aging was slower?

Our biology?

Life on the planet ,I wonder if the sun is red ?

Can we just start calling it Krypton cuz it looks a hell of a lot like Krypton lol

It'll give us some time to fix the guardrails

Great. Can I go there tomorrow?

And Sir Misogyny the Orange, and don't forget the "bleach blonde, bad-built, butch body", send her too.

Even if we could live to send something that could reach them in however many hundreds of thousands of years, they might not develop any lifeforms unbalanced enough to become like humans in scientific progress to understand what was sent, and I'm certain we won't be around when it's seen even if.

The gravity would crush him like a Tesla..

😂

Don’t tell people where it is. They’ll go there and destroy it and shoot one another over it.

Admittedly, only created by biology as we know it.

What do the humans look like on that big boy, I wonder

Oh. They found Mira.

Let’s send Elon to investigate.

Bet you’re fun at parties

I think you're probably fun at parties. Ones where the guests like facts and reality.

launch elmo today !!!

Okay, fine but please leave the damn planet alone, and not go and fuck it up like we've already done ours with no way back to redemption from the climate crisis that the future generations are going to bare the brunt of our past generations deeds. Not that we have any hope to reach there 🤤 🤞🤬🤔😋🙏

Hopefully more intelligent life there.

Well that office will be dismantled soon. We'll never see any more space info...

Can I book a trip. Earth is pretty mid right now

I think this is a bit sensationalized. They're only created biologically on Earth. We have no idea what chemical processes may be going on over there that might be creating it abiotically.

Any idea what the gravity factor would be?

They b fartin!!!

It's an intriguing discovery but, as I understand it, the gas can be produced through abiotic processes. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This is awesome!

I think I’d like a one way ticket to K2-18b. Its gotta be better than being here right now.

Looks to have around 30x the mass of earth

It is stupid to think that every other planet in the universe is a dead planet. Come on! Finding evidence of life elsewhere is just a formality!

But can we see any lights?

The idea of living on that planet is hurting my knees and lower back just thinking about it.

Let's go!!

Oxygen isn’t nearly required for life. There is microbial life on earth that doesn’t require it.

Dimethyl sulfide, which can be produced in a lab without life processes being involved (except for the chemists handling the chemicals, of course). Still exciting though. Hope people can keep observing this planet.

Netflix's Alien Worlds episode "Atlas" imagines life on a planet twice the size of Earth.

"Pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space because there's bugger all down here on Earth." - Eric Idle, 1983

We have good reason to be excited by the capabilities JWST is demonstrating and the discoveries these will make. But I worry about the current quality of science reporting. Society seems to be losing the ability to be skeptical; failing to examine the evidence behind extraordinary claims.

Not to mention the gravity on that planet would be much greater than humans are designed for.

You're excited over something that would take us 30,000 years to send a probe to???

Isn't the very fact that it is an alien planet and therefore unfamiliar, enough reason to say that there's lots of potential ways that we could be wrong about those only occurring due to life? I feel like "those gasses are only produced by biology *here on Earth*" is a pretty important distinction

@dougbernstein.bsky.social @mattflammable.bsky.social Ooooh, thank you for this context!

Cautiously enough to say that, unless and until we can prove it's no longer necessary, the Prime Directive remains in place.

Seems like quite a coincidence that these particular gases have never before been found in evidence on any of the tens of thousands of other exoplanets that have been observed.

Send musk

Send Elon to check it out. Its name already sounds like one of his kids.

Let’s sent musk there.

"Hey, did you know that empirical science and mathematics don't actually describe the world with real accuracy?" "Really? Who told you that?" "A famous scientist! Anyway, that's why we shouldn't trust science! 🤪💦"

If only relativistic space travel existed.

Not "only," unless you're on earth. There're scientific articles online about this.

hope mankind will never reach them.

Hmm, science at work? 🤔

A light year is measured in time not distance so a light is the equivalent to one full earth year

Oh great - we found the fart planet

The observations made *with* the telescope did. What are you even trying to say here?

Its Super Earth 💪