Habitable Exoplanets Debunked!

Want to ask some sort of crazy question about Space?: Tweet at us! @pbsspacetime Facebook: facebook.com/pbsspacetime Email us! pbsspacetime [at] gmail [dot] com Comment on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/pbsspacetime Support us on Patreon! http://www.patreon.com/pbsspacetime Help translate our videos! http://www.youtube.com/timedtext_cs_panel?tab=2&c=UC7_gcs09iThXybpVgjHZ_7g Let us know what topics you want to learn more about: http://bit.ly/spacetimepoll Kepler 186f rekindled our hopes and dreams of colonizing space. “Habitable exoplanet!” we heard, “Space Travel IS NOW!” Top that off with multiple breakthroughs in companies like SpaceX and BAM. The Future is now! But there’s a small problem… When we say a planet is habitable, we aren’t REALLY saying what we think we are saying. “Habitable” means something else. Is Kepler 186f habitable, in the true sense of the word? And if not, what other planets should we be looking at? Watch this episode of PBS SpaceTime and find out! Extra Credit: Review paper about exoplanet atmospheres: http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-astro-081309-130837 (Non-pay version of the paper) http://arxiv.org/abs/1005.4037 Emily Rice (NASA Space Apps Challenge talk on Exoplanet Atmospheres): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYGTZkueKWc&t=6s https://about.me/emilyrice ----------------------------------------­­­­­­­­­­­­-----------------------------­-­- Comments: It’s Okay To Be Smart https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo232kyTsO0&lc=z12ov1t4myywf1kmb22qjpcwivehjxunf Dan Cattell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo232kyTsO0&lc=z122tb5ppqafy51aj04ce33bpqzdsbh5v4g Tim Chapelle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo232kyTsO0&lc=z12wclmgpva2zj00h23einzxukixjddl3 Natalia B https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo232kyTsO0&lc=z13sybdrmk23i5tni22sf3bz1lb1ilkp304 Pablo Herrero https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo232kyTsO0&lc=z135hpfqvxrkvvkcf22dydfjysnlsrvvz gorRo roJo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo232kyTsO0&lc=z12dhbsobo2zuvttr23yydx4ax33glqkd Gareth Dean https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo232kyTsO0&lc=z13zhvox0lbctfpi404chx1bhrjygnzoif0 Consider This https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo232kyTsO0&lc=z132h1wiypm0spko004cc3u4hvyredsgr2c The Higgs Boson, Part II: What is Mass? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASRpIym_jFM Music: Buster - Patternbased (https://soundcloud.com/patternbased) Philly D Jr. - Patternbased (https://soundcloud.com/patternbased) Dr Dreidel - Patternbased (https://soundcloud.com/patternbased) Windmills - Anitek (https://soundcloud.com/anitek/02-windmills) Secret Society - Logical Disorder (http://logicaldisorder.bandcamp.com/) u dont know im fadin Pinball Beat - Patternbased (https://soundcloud.com/patternbased) miracle - slow (http://www.restingbell.net/releases/r) Heisse Luft - Thompson and Kuhl (https://soundcloud.com/phlow/05-x-com) New SpaceTime episodes every Wednesday! Hosted by Gabe Perez-Giz Made by Kornhaber Brown (www.kornhaberbrown.com)