David Kipping

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this telescope is the first one that can find them.

And so we're very excited about the profound implications of ultimately solving this journey we're on in astronomy, which is to understand our uniqueness.

We want to understand how common is the solar system.

Are we the architecture that frequently emerges naturally, or is there something special about what happened here?

This is perfect.

I will.

I agree.

There's a real satisfaction in extracting the maximum science per unit time out of your telescope.

And that's...

That's the TAC's job.

But the TAC are not machines.

They're not a piece of computer code.

They will make their selections based off human judgment.

And a lot of the telescopes, certainly within the field of exoplanets, because there's different fields of astronomy, but within the field of exoplanets,

I think a good expectation is that most of the telescope time that JWTC have will go towards atmospheric retrieval, which is sort of alluded to earlier, you know, like detecting molecules in the atmospheres, not biosignatures, because as I said, it's really not designed to do that.

It's pushing JWTC probably too far to expect to do that.

But it could detect, for example, a carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere on TRAPPIST-1e.

That's not a biosignature, but you could prove it's like a Venus in that case, or maybe like a Mars in that case.

Both those have carbon dioxide-rich atmospheres.