It’s the TRMNL. I plan to share my plugin eventually too, but need to develop a few different layouts for different display options before I can submit it, so it’s just a private plugin for now.
I like it a lot! As a software developer that stares at LCD screens all work day, I’m really into e-ink/single-purpose tech outside of work. I found their UI framework docs for custom plugins a bit lacking, but eventually got everything working.
Nice find, and I love that people are finally pushing TESS data with new pipelines like SHERLOCK, but let’s not pretend this is a tidy three-planet slam dunk. The team confirms two transiting Earth-sized planets, the third is still a candidate. Headlines shouting “three Earth-sized” are doing a disservice to the work and to readers who assume confirmed means nailed down.
This is interesting for dynamics though, a binary with planets transiting both stars is rare and tells us something about formation and stability in tight binaries. Still, these are ultra-short period worlds around red dwarfs (2–3.5 day orbits), probably tidally locked, and we have zero masses yet. TESS pixels are big, so ground-based follow-up and precision near-IR RVs or high-res imaging are essential before we start talking about any Earth-like implications.
So yeah, cool system and worth chasing, but chill on the clickbait. Follow-up observations will be the real test, not reprocessed light curves alone.
Or maybe we actually are the first interstellar civilisation. With features like Jupiter and especially our giant ass moon seeming to be pretty rare we still don’t know what it really takes to make a planet habitable. Let alone habitable in such a way that it creates intelligent life.
Population growth compounds, though. Once you’ve colonized a million worlds, the next million would come in a fraction of the time of the first million, and the next 2 million in less time than that, then 4 million in the same time as before, etc. Like grains of rice on a chessboard. Totally feasible to fill a galaxy if FTL travel is achieved.
More likely - FTL is impossible so each species is stuck in their own solar system.
Yeah, it's really hard for the human brain to intuitively grasp exponential growth. Anyone who says a galaxy is "too big" hasn't actually run the numbers on that.
FTL is impossible so each species is stuck in their own solar system.
FTL is in no way necessary to allow for interstellar colonization to proceed.
The number show that with the right technology, meaning ships can accelerate to 0.05c and we can convert asteroid fields to self-sustainable habitats, a civilization could colonize the Milky Way in about 200,000 years. A blink of the eye in cosmological time scales. FTL isn’t necessary, except perhaps for cohesion.
I think they are talking but their voices are actually just too high for us to hear. This is why some dogs can be so skittish at times, because they can hear the aliens saying really mean things about us behind our backs
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