I'm John Batchew at David Livingston.

This is Hotel Mars, and we're visiting with MIT astronomers Julian DeWitt and Benjamin

Rackham.

Benjamin, I start with you.

An unlimited budget.

You write it.

You hire it.

You go for it.

Where do you want to go?

Can I give you two ideas?

Of course.

Okay.

So within sort of the realm of possibility, but assuming we had unlimited budget,

let's say we turned the James Webb Space Telescope into the Trappist One Space Telescope,

and we basically dedicate our premier

facility in space to observations of the transiting planets in this system. It's possible that

given a large enough data set, we can overcome this issue that we've discussed with

stellar contamination or the transit light source

effect and understand exactly what are the signals that are coming from the star when we get

trans observation and what are the signals that are coming from the planet and then we can do

these atmospheric studies of all seven planets to really answer that question of what would happen with the

Earth-like world hotter than ours or cooler than ours or just like ours could we find

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