Habitable Exoplanets Debunked!

Want to ask some sort of crazy question about Space?: Tweet at us! @pbsspacetime Email us! pbsspacetime [at] gmail [dot] com Comment on Reddit: Help translate our videos! Let us know what topics you want to learn more about: 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: (Non-pay version of the paper) Emily Rice (NASA Space Apps Challenge talk on Exoplanet Atmospheres): ----------------------------------------­­­­­­­­­­­­-----------------------------­-­- Comments: It’s Okay To Be Smart Dan Cattell Tim Chapelle Natalia B Pablo Herrero gorRo roJo Gareth Dean Consider This The Higgs Boson, Part II: What is Mass? Music: Buster - Patternbased ( Philly D Jr. - Patternbased ( Dr Dreidel - Patternbased ( Windmills - Anitek ( Secret Society - Logical Disorder ( u dont know im fadin Pinball Beat - Patternbased ( miracle - slow ( Heisse Luft - Thompson and Kuhl ( New SpaceTime episodes every Wednesday! Hosted by Gabe Perez-Giz Made by Kornhaber Brown (www.kornhaberbrown.com)