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Japan to join U.S.-led space telescope project in search for life

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Plenty of it in this planet? Why the obsession to look for it where there is none? To validate the alien agenda for the next reality, according to Carl Rove?

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....will orbit 1.5 million kilometers from Earth. It will utilize infrared, visible and UV light to detect exoplanets with conditions such as liquid water and atmospheres capable of supporting life.

At 1.5 Million Kilometers around Earth puts the telescope right at the gravatational oribital limit before it would just drift off.

I am no scientist. But its seems to me, with Voyager 1  is currently 24,900,973,331 kilometers from Earth, equivalent to 166.452726 Astronomical Units. For a signal or data to reach us on Earth. It takes 23 hours, 4 minutes and 20.7064 something odd seconds to travel from Voyager 1. And arrive to us here on Earth. This is still not far enough to seach for Earth like planets that could be in a habital goldilock zone around some distant star. In order to be truley effective we need to get outside of the milkyway. And that can not happen. Just to confirm and be sure if a planet does exisit. Like really close up where we can get surface images.

As space keeps expanding at a rapid rate. Seems out of reach or what we would consider a non exsistence.

I know we have discovred super Earth. They are way the heck out there.

 Eridani B is the closest Super Earth. Discovered in 2022, this super-Earth orbits a star that's 20 light-years away. It's located in the habitable zone of its star, but its elliptical orbit makes it unclear if it could support life. 

Making my point.

 James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers can observe objects as far away as 20 light years, and even much further, capturing details of galaxies millions of light years distant; however, the ability to clearly see specific details at that distance depends on the object's brightness and the telescope's capabilities. 

We cant see Eridani B or its surface.

In short. a waste of money. Until some new tech comes out allowing to see planet surfaces from near Earth.

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Hmmm phew

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