Could We Live On TRAPPIST-1f?

Josie Peters, my astrophysicist friend, and I teleported to TRAPPIST-f to see how 'habitable' it really was and what sort of adaptations to live on the planet would be required.

The news about TRAPPIST-1 and its exoplanets, and whether it is indeed habitable or not, is very exciting news for the scientific community, as it is the first time so many Earth-like planets have been discovered, and they could provide insight into what these planets and early life may look like - so today, we simulated a trip over there for that reason.

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Special thanks to:
- Héctor Vives

- Amy Seales

- Nahúm Chazarra

- Alex El Efecto Xalamito

- Francis Villatoro

Inés Dawson is a PhD student and animal flight scientist at the University of Oxford.

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[DrawCuriosity]

Hey everyone! I hope you enjoyed today's episode!
Check out Josie's channel as she puts out lots of fun content about astrophysics:
Y a mis suscriptores nuevos - *bienvenidos al canal!!* - y recordad, este vídeo y todos los de ciencia que sigan están subtitulados al español si preferís verlo así :)

( and I do agree the visual effects and audio are... interesting, though I'm quite proud of the result considering it was a 2hr speedy shoot and a 1 day edit ;) )

[ashitmehta]

Of course there is life on the planet. People are strolling behind you for their evening-morning-afternoon walk

[Giftedbryan]

I've found life on the planet! It's behind you, i saw an adult a child and what looked to be like a pet... maybe something like an earth dog?

[upandatom]

This video was epic! Lots of new information and loved the trip to TRAPPIST-1 f. Great work girls :)

[StepBackHistory]

Man, the rare earth solution to the fermi paradox is looking more and more convincing.

[Mickologist]

Couldn't help but laugh at the beginning. There's a difference between a planet being habitable, and a planet harbouring life. As with any planet that is discovered, there could be life, but we could just not be able to recognise it. It's a big universe with almost infinite possibilities. A scientist (I forget his name) once said, "The universe isn't like Star Trek, where almost everything is humanoid or bipedal."

Until we visit them, or hear from them, we'll never truly know!

Great video as usual, though!

[towjam]

Arya Stark!!! So glad she made a guest appearance in one of your videos, and it's awesome to know she appreciates science!

[PaulPaulsen]

Hey Inés, thanks for introducing me to Josies channel. I really like her content.

[Soliloquy]

Great CGI effect on your background Inés!

[ossiebird]

These interstellar discoveries are always fascinating; cannot wait until 2018 for the James Webb space telescope observing some of the most interesting events and objects in the Universe. Those Hubble deep field pictures are incredible makes one realise how insignificant we are. There has to be intelligent life out there somewhere maybe not in this infinitesimal slither of time in which we exist but with a possible 40 billion habitable earth like planets just in the Milky Way. I wonder if out there, there are life supporting planets close enough to each other like Trappist1 e, f and g, with advanced intelligent life whose occupants travel between them like we travel between continents. Maybe the earth is just too unusual in its solitary distance, radio silence and biology to any other extraterrestrial life, hence the Fermi paradox. As you suggest the environment of these planets may not be suitable for human habitation but maybe support extremophiles. Either way our earth is a most fascinating and extraordinary planet with its ability to support life and its diverse biology. There is no doubt that the inhabitants of the earth 500 billion years from now when the earth will be engulfed by the red giant sun will be as different to us as we are to bacteria and maybe able to move to and survive on TRAPPIST1-f like planets. Great to see two of my favorite Youtubers in collaboration.

[MrCardeso]

I wonder if the Trappists in the rocky planets go to the water planet to unwind.

[sgkingly]

Hey Draw Curiosity! A few videos back I said about the talk from an astronaut called Michael Foale. That was last night and it was amazing. He was really nice and had a great sense of humor. I got to shake his hand and get a photograph from him. He liked the fact that I fly model aircraft as he used to do that and me, my mother and father are also from the same home town as him.

[abrtn]

Habitable or not, I'm hoping humanity makes it there one day. We might not be able to approach any of those planets safely, but to be able to study them up close would be awesome.

[davidramos]

Si hay vida en el minuto 5:31 😂
Gracias por compartir con nosotros el conocimiento💙

[joseluisdelatorre]

Increíble video gracias por subtitularlo al español 😁

[DarkSapiens]

Great video! I really liked the end result :D

Regarding the existence of moons I'm a bit pessimist, though. Especially big, habitable ones, because aside from the fact that very big ones might have appeared in the data, everything is so close together in this system that I don't think their orbits would be stable for long. The same gravitational interactions that allowed us to estimate the masses of the planets would change the trajectory of any possible moons by quite a bit :-/
But they still remain a good target in systems where there's a tidally-locked gas giant in the habitable zone, for example, because then the chances of very large moons are big :)

And also, I don't think we know the age of the system yet! :D
I think the only thing they can say for sure is "not less than 500 million years", and perhaps it would be a big coincidence that the star is just at the beginning of the possible range…

[NNikelisio]

si subieras los vídeos en ambos idiomas, si sería más trabajo, pero serían muchos más seguidores. Seguro gran parte de la comunidad de c de ciencia, el robot de platón, etc. vendrían también aquí

[ague]

Good vídeo, buen video. Es lo que hablaste el otro día en el directo pero más detallado😉. Muy interesante

[jurian]

3:47 extraterrestrial joggers found on TRAPPIST-1f

[maxximumb]

I think life in the Trappist-1 system is impossible right now. Considering our solar system was still mopping up debris as part of the Late Heavy Bombardment for another 800 million years. Life wouldn't stand a chance there yet. I'm guessing the planets still don't even have solid or at least stable surfaces. With Trappist-1 having much weaker gravity, more matter will have been left in it's accretion disc, leading to more or larger planets and a lot more asteroids for the planets to sweep up.

On a slightly different topic, when we do discover the signs of life on a different planet. Then break the laws of physics (as we understand them now) and manage to travel the vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big distance to visit the alien life. And assuming they won't instantly lay parasitic eggs inside us, but instead choose to communicate with us. They will have their own names for their planet, solar system, stars etc. We would obviously have to change our maps to use their names for their local system, but how would we decide where the naming convention changes? Would we continue to use our names and they theirs? Would we combine them Trappist-47/Hastromil? How would this work when we encountered other sentient beings?
It all sounds a bit complicated.