Posted on 07/20/2012 11:14:12 AM PDT by Red Badger
That chart won’t be in effect until the 23rd century. As of right no, though, ‘warp 5’ will be simply 5 times the speed of light until further discoveries are made in quantum mechanics and string theory that allow for more apparent speed............
It was once thought that Mercury was a planet that showed only one face to the Sun at all times.
From Wiki:
For many years it was thought that Mercury was synchronously tidally locked with the Sun, rotating once for each orbit and always keeping the same face directed towards the Sun, in the same way that the same side of the Moon always faces the Earth. Radar observations in 1965 proved that the planet has a 3:2 spinorbit resonance, rotating three times for every two revolutions around the Sun; the eccentricity of Mercurys orbit makes this resonance stableat perihelion, when the solar tide is strongest, the Sun is nearly still in Mercurys sky.[73]
The original reason astronomers thought it was synchronously locked was that, whenever Mercury was best placed for observation, it was always nearly at the same point in its 3:2 resonance, hence showing the same face. This is because, coincidentally, Mercury’s rotation period is almost exactly half of its synodic period with respect to Earth. Due to Mercury’s 3:2 spinorbit resonance, a solar day (the length between two meridian transits of the Sun) lasts about 176 Earth days.[13] A sidereal day (the period of rotation) lasts about 58.7 Earth days.[13]
Simulations indicate that the orbital eccentricity of Mercury varies chaotically from nearly zero (circular) to more than 0.45 over millions of years due to perturbations from the other planets.[13][74] This is thought to explain Mercury’s 3:2 spin-orbit resonance (rather than the more usual 1:1), since this state is more likely to arise during a period of high eccentricity.[75] Numerical simulations show that a future secular orbital resonant perihelion interaction with Jupiter may cause the eccentricity of Mercury’s orbit to increase to the point where there is a 1% chance that the planet may collide with Venus within the next five billion years.[76][77]
It’s right next door via wormhole.
But first you gotta create the wormhole.
That’ll take another hundred years, at least.........
Re :I remember hearing years ago, that a 2% deviation in earths orbit would render it inhabitable.
I read a short time ago that there are at lease 13 earth parameters that if differed by the slightest, we would not be here
Hi Fred! I’m ready to go if we leave all the leftists behind.
Or a good archeological dig at Gisa.
Only un til and say you did. Click the pic.
120,000,000,000,000 miles!
If we start now we can get there is no time at all.
Actually the trip would be ~23 months- the warp factor is the cube root of the c multiple.
Oops, bad math. The trip would take about 7 1/2 weeks.
In a tidal lock there *might* be a habitable zone around the terminator but the weather would be pretty extreme.
Thanks bigheadfred.
Thanks Red Badger.
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I clicked the pic, and I’ve saved it to read later. It’s too late this evening to get into it now, but it does look quite appealing and interesting.
Thank you so much, Fred!
when they identify an exo entirely made of chocolate I’ll go
“Five potential edible planets now”
And only be cuz I like you. There are certain lies, misconceptions and otherwise total bullshit in some of the editorialism in the link.
Don’t be taken in by that.
They’ve gone to plaid!!
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