I guess that mean all their babies look like this:
Perfect for life? After that I did not bother to read it.
Find it interesting that NASA makes this call based upon location of the planet in the “habitable zone”. IOWs, the intensity of the sunlight being the key factor. Yet other NASA scientists are all wrapped up in “Anthropromorphic Global Warming” and “Greenhouse Gases” which the other guys seem to neglect.
Go figure?
I guess that mean all their babies look like this:
Do we know the gravtational pull on surface?
Percentage of surface covered by water?
Atmospheric pressure?
Can we identify areas which are, say, equivalent to a Mediterranean climate?
Do we have any idea what we're talking about when we say it is "perfect" for life?
The scientists are welcome to go there. An don’t forget to write.
Actually what sticks out at me is the fact that the system appears to be poor in metals which can be a real problem for life as we know it.
A planet in the habitable zone could be Venus, Earth or Mars.
So far Keppler isn’t finding many Earth candidates...
Occupy GJ 667C!
I’ll even kick in a couple of hundred bucks for rocket fuel if they can get all the OWSers on the ship.
Long way to go before it can be deemed “perfect for life”. Have to get past “tolerable for life” first:
Does it have a magnetic field to deflect solar radiation?
Is water present?
Does it have a sizeable satellite that stabilizes axis drift?
Does it have a relatively massive sister planet to suck up or deflect asteroids/comets/meteors?
And they know this how? My recollection is that the only way to determine the mass of an astronomical body without making assumptions about its density is if you can observe something orbiting that body.
Also do these folks looking at supposed habitable planets every worry about the other things we take for granted here: atmosphere and atmospheric pressure, availability of water, vegetation, etc.
ML/NJ
Perfect place to send all of the liberals.
/sarc
WOW a lot of negative posts. I had to check to make sure I was still on the FR due to the lack of intelligent life.
All you have to do is look at our planet to know life CAN survive in environments completely hostile to humans.
Why is it so difficult to believe life could exist on other planets with more/less gravity, more/less light (happens here), more/less heat (happens here)?
Do you actually think our creator was limited to one planet in the entire universe? If he can create life from a liberal he can create life from nothing.
And it lacks chocolate.