Newly Discovered Planet May be First Truly Habitable Exoplanet

Santa Clara U. ^ | 9/29/2010 | Tim Stephens

[mnehring]

With the larger diameter of the planet, a person standing on the surface is farther away from the center than we are here on Earth.

You got it... also, just for argument's sake, if it is 20 lightyears away, the time it would take to build a ship that could travel that distance in a reasonable time (how many thousands of years to figure this out?), would be plenty of time to create genetic alterations that would make whatever difference habitable.

[TalonDJ]

With the larger diameter of the planet, a person standing on the surface is farther away from the center

Exactly. Don't quit your day job Blood.

[TalonDJ]

You will also notice that little ‘r’ is squared... and on the bottom of the fraction. This means a slight increase in the radius of the planet will cause a large drop in the ‘felt gravity’ at the surface.

[JohnBovenmyer]

Sounds like they found Jinx

I wonder whether the Puppeteers will flee once they receive the message from Obama's department of religious outreach.

[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic is from 9/29/2010. Thanks Dallas59.

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