didn t think that was a good idea. people would come up to me and say, you can talk to my adviser, he thinks exoplanets are nothing. you shouldn t be doing this. he ll tell you. professors would say, look, people are finding planets, i kind of believe them, but we ll never be able to study their atmospheres. when i was on the job market as a junior faculty, there was one transiting planet, hd 2459 b. they say, i get there s one object, i think it s a one object, one-method success. i don t know if this field s going to go anywhere. the webb telescope is 100 times more powerful than hubble. telescopes keep getting bicker because the bigger the better the resolution. we wouldn t have built a telescope this big unless we needed to. you need to build a telescope to
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