It’s a 50,000 year journey. I say we send Ronan Mullen. We’ll wait on the porch for him to get back.
I’ll start my wormhole now…
I’m normally not one to complain about this but what does this have to do with Ireland?
That’s a relief
Let’s go ruin another planet
How much is the rent there?
I know you’ll drown in sarcasm here but I love learning stuff like this. A giant light sail and some very big lasers and off we go. We won’t see boots on the ground in our lifetime but imagine learning there was somewhere temperate with a bio signature. Amazing. Literally the biggest discovery in the history of humanity.
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Let’s go build data centres on it!
Waiting for all the sorted ould lads with a 7 bedroom dormer bungalow in Leixlip, rake of kids and a cushy pension to chime in here with “The grass isn’t always greener you know”, terrified the youth will emigrate to this new planet and leave a smaller pool of cheap, teenage labour for their dodgy businesses.
Even with the fastest moving rocket possible, how many hundreds of years would it take to get there? Unless your sending frozen foetuses to be raised by robots on this new planet it’s probably not gonna happen.
All well and good to know this. But 100 light years is like 600 trillion miles or someshit
The ULiege in Belgium buckos who found it are the ones who found TRAPPIST-1 the star system in 2001 so they named it after their abbey beers. The telescope they are working on SPECULOOS is named after a type of Belgian biscuit. I s’pose an Irish exoplanet astronomer would call the star GUINNESS-(2) and TAYTO for the telescope by that naming convention.
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Who are we sending to find out?
It’s a 50,000 year journey. I say we send Ronan Mullen. We’ll wait on the porch for him to get back.
I’ll start my wormhole now…
I’m normally not one to complain about this but what does this have to do with Ireland?
That’s a relief
Let’s go ruin another planet
How much is the rent there?
I know you’ll drown in sarcasm here but I love learning stuff like this. A giant light sail and some very big lasers and off we go. We won’t see boots on the ground in our lifetime but imagine learning there was somewhere temperate with a bio signature. Amazing. Literally the biggest discovery in the history of humanity.
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Let’s go build data centres on it!
Waiting for all the sorted ould lads with a 7 bedroom dormer bungalow in Leixlip, rake of kids and a cushy pension to chime in here with “The grass isn’t always greener you know”, terrified the youth will emigrate to this new planet and leave a smaller pool of cheap, teenage labour for their dodgy businesses.
Even with the fastest moving rocket possible, how many hundreds of years would it take to get there? Unless your sending frozen foetuses to be raised by robots on this new planet it’s probably not gonna happen.
All well and good to know this. But 100 light years is like 600 trillion miles or someshit
The ULiege in Belgium buckos who found it are the ones who found TRAPPIST-1 the star system in 2001 so they named it after their abbey beers. The telescope they are working on SPECULOOS is named after a type of Belgian biscuit. I s’pose an Irish exoplanet astronomer would call the star GUINNESS-(2) and TAYTO for the telescope by that naming convention.
What’s the housing market like on this planet?