To carry out an exhaustive two - year survey of extrasolar planets in both celestial hemispheres, TESS needed to occupy a very particular position in space, a highly stable place that maximized sky coverage and gave the observatory a mostly unobstructed view of the cosmos, all from a low - radiation, thermally benign environmen
To carry out an exhaustive two - year survey of extrasolar planets in both celestial hemispheres, TESS needed
to occupy a very particular position in space, a highly stable place that maximized sky coverage and gave the observatory a mostly unobstructed view of the cosmos, all from a low - radiation, thermally benign environmen
to occupy a very particular position in
space, a highly stable place that maximized sky coverage and gave the observatory a mostly
unobstructed view of the cosmos, all from a low -
radiation, thermally benign environment.
This EM
radiation has been travelling outwards through
space at close
to the speed of light, almost completely
unobstructed, creating a bubble of manmade noise.
We could enter a future in which computing power is so cheap and ubiquitous that wealth will be measured directly in energy (
to power the computing that literally creates our virtual / real world real - time)-- «Solar real estate» becomes a premier commodity — we will own, not land per se, but the «right»
to harvest the solar
radiation through an
unobstructed tunnel of restricted
space between a patch of ground and the sun.