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no-more-throws t1_j1972sm wrote

what are the prospects of JWST being able to look at whatever section of sky this is in? and what details might JWST or Hubble etc be able to add?

is there any current or near future telescope that could possibly examine the spectra of the planets in this system?

what made the team pick this particular system for observation?

based on very rough estimates of the numbers of star systems you all have searched, and the number of systems with habitable terrestrial planets found, and the numbers of other systems that are worth observing but we haven't had the scope time or manpower for yet, does it feel like this was the harbinger of flood gates opening to many more such discoveries we can expect, or on the flip side is this like a serendipitous discovery and doesn't necessarily mean we should raise hopes we'll find a more of these in short order?

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no-more-throws t1_j18ltlh wrote

that seems weak .. so lets take two retirees, both with these same comorbidities etc, except one is still strong enough to walk around everyday while the other gets long winded and can hardly manage walking to the carport .. one would already expect them to have vastly different mortality risks, whether for covid or everything ..

basically it's a huge confounding factor in almost all these studies whether the comparison being made is simply between people who choose to exercise vs those who choose to be sedentary, or whether it is between people who still have the ability to be active vs those who are already weakened and homebound etc .. especially when you include elderly in such studies

(that said, ofc there are numerous better structured studies that show the clear benefit of exercise, certainly no doubts about that in general)

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