Post #1705120

2026-04-26 18:13 UTC

There are a lot of awful things in our present timeline, but my daughter spent a while today in her cardboard box spaceship traveling to Trappist-1, a real star system with real exoplanets that she's learned about, so it's not all bad.

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@RichSPK@tech.lgbt 2026-04-26 20:22

@rr4idic@mastodon.online oh man. The fruit preserves on Trappist-1!

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@edwilk@mstdn.social 2026-04-26 20:48

@rr4idic@mastodon.online How many people can the box hold?

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@floatybirb@mastodon.social 2026-04-26 23:12

@rr4idic@mastodon.online did your daughter find any aliens on Trappist-1? or any pretty rocks?

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@johncormier@cosocial.ca 2026-04-26 23:35

@rr4idic@mastodon.online As a young person, I made myself a space ship out of a cardboard wardrobe box when we moved to the city. Spent many hours in our then-unfinished basement flying my space ship off to exotic destinations. Curious to know what was my inspiration was at the time, I checked the date of our family’s big move: just a few months after The Empire Strikes Back came out.

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@sinvega@mas.to 2026-04-27 10:59

@rr4idic@mastodon.online there's a game called trappist set on it :D

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@Tooden@aus.social 2026-04-27 11:44

@rr4idic@mastodon.online Definitely positive energy😊

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@Nikkileah@mendeddrum.org 2026-04-27 15:41

@rr4idic@mastodon.online do we have. Weather update on the Trappist system? I'm looking for somewhere exotic for a holiday

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@Cornellbox@a2mi.social 2026-04-27 19:03

@rr4idic@mastodon.online I assume she already has the Trappist-1 travel poster from JPL, but if not (and, in any case, for others) a link: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/trappist-1e-jpl-travel-poster/

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@cshlan@dawdling.net 2026-04-28 00:08

@rr4idic@mastodon.online Have you read Under Alien Skies? It's got a chapter on that system.

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