Can we send Donald there to find out?
I’ll bet there’s more intelligent life on the those planets than in the White House right now.
”They circle tightly around a dim dwarf star called Trappist-1.”
Trump, reacting to the prospect of more undocumented aliens:
“When Trappist-1 sends its carbon-based life forms, they’re not sending their best. They’re bringing thermostabilized, rehydratable ingestibles. They’re bringing exobiological mores. They’re parthenogenesists. And some, I assume, are good multi-tentacled sentient organisms.”
While I want us to discover extraterrestrial life, I really hope we don’t discover it for another four years because there’s no way Trump wouldn’t screw up the announcement.
And only 40 light years away! So assuming the ability to travel at half the speed of light we could have colonists there in 80 years. Then 40 years later we might get a message that they got there and found a new Eden; or the local sentient beings said piss off.
Also, too, plus, Republicans are cutting funds for NASA.
Uh, reality check.
The fastest object ever launched from Earth was the New Horizons mission to Pluto. Its speed was something like 16 km/sec. At that rate, it would take about 750,000 years to get to the Trappist system.
This completes the reality check. You may now resume discussing Trump.
edit: We should be able to study the atmosphere very soon, and that will give us some excellent indications about life.
edit: But not about the presence of fast-food joints.
Guess who has dibs on the first on site monastery?
Personally, I’m worried about the ones with calves the size of cantaloupes who are going to be smuggled across the border in bales of marijuana. We have to build that Börder Wåll.
