(10-09-2022, 04:29 AM)elepaio pid= Wrote:Heaven awaits ..
Are we traveling back to Dayton, Tennessee in 1925?
(10-08-2022, 05:39 PM)MyManao Wrote:(10-08-2022, 02:52 PM)iquetzal Wrote: Humanity needs a very large telescope in the N Hemisphere to find another habitable planet.
Otherwise human extinction is a Probability-1 event at some point in the future.
Wow, now that's a new take on all this I had not heard. And, if true, it sounds awfully important. I wonder why the TMT guys haven't promoted that point themselves? I mean, if all of humanity's fate hangs in the balance.. like I said, wow! Would you care to elaborate?
It may be news to you, but it's widespread speculation in the scientific community that finding a habitable planet might be the only way humanity can survive in the long term, and TMT would provide the data to find such a planet, e.g.,
https://www.tmt.org/page/exoplanets
"The Thirty Meter Telescope will provide an enormous advance in our ability to identify and characterize extrasolar planets. New technological advances -- e.g. high-precision Doppler measurements, high-precision space-based photometry, and advanced adaptive optics – have driven a large number of exoplanet discoveries. The TMT’s instrumentation will generate an incredible number of additional discoveries, will drastically expand the kinds of planets we can detect, will provide a rich understanding of these planets’ physical properties, and will potentially yield the first detections of habitable rocky planets."