Potentially habitable planet TRAPPIST-1b may have a carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere, The innermost Earth-like planet in the famous TRAPPIST-1 system might be capable of supporting a thick atmosphere

Allah@lemmy.world · 9 days ago

Potentially habitable planet TRAPPIST-1b may have a carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere, The innermost Earth-like planet in the famous TRAPPIST-1 system might be capable of supporting a thick atmosphere

RobotToaster@mander.xyz · 9 days ago

just 40 light-years from Earth

The word “just” is doing a lot of work here.

kronisk @lemmy.world · 9 days ago

One of the more optimistic estimates in this thread is that it would take us ~60 000 years to travel with existing technology.

Of course, now that we have ChatGPT, Gemini and Grok we’re obviously gonna reach light speed travel within the next 10 years, so it won’t be a problem.