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Gliese 12 b, a temperate Earth-sized planet at 12 parsecs discovered with TESS and CHEOPS (mastodon.social)

submitted 8 months ago by m3t00 to c/science

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ends up on https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/531/1/1276/7679807#455880802

ngl, skipped to conclusions

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Not horribly far away, I guess.

[–] Cosmicomical 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Just far enough to be effectively unreachable, lol :(

[–] KISSmyOSFeddit 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

With current tech we could easily get there in under 200000 years!

[–] Cosmicomical 3 points 8 months ago

Hmm I like your can-do attitude, but does the current tech include food and energy to actually have someone alive on the ship when it reaches destination? I doubt it, unfortunately.

[–] Num10ck 2 points 8 months ago

toss some tardigrades over there

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I’ve been listening to a lot of Terrence Howard, and now believe we’re within a few years of FTL travel. Just need to get some NASA scientists to start listening to a B list actor.