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Astronomers find new planet capable of supporting life
TELEGRAPH UK ^ | 04-27-2012 | Staff

Posted on 04/27/2012 11:32:10 AM PDT by Red Badger

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To: ex-snook

Re: “God must have created such a vast universe to support life.”

Or, for the more cynical among us, God created a vast universe to support NASA.


61 posted on 04/27/2012 2:21:20 PM PDT by zeestephen
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To: GraceG
[ Bad news is whatever you weigh now would be multiplied by 4.5 if you stepped out on that planet. If you weigh 180 pounds on Earth, you would weigh 810 pounds on that planet. ]

BZZT WRONG, the gravity depends on the density of the planet and mass and distance from the center of the planet. The Planet would have higher gravity than the earth, but it would be a less than 4.5G. Probably between 1.6 - 2.8 Gs

You are correct.

And I think the exact answer for the ratio of Earth Weight to Planet X weight is, given equal densities of Planet X and Planet Earth, the cube root of 4.5. That turns out to be very close to 1.65.

So you would weigh 65% more on Planet X than you do here on earth. Those aliens who now watching our late 80's TV will be shorter and fatter than we are. Well at least shorter assuming they haven't discovered fast food yet.

62 posted on 04/27/2012 3:06:17 PM PDT by InterceptPoint (TIN)
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To: Red Badger

You mean the one where you take shots of Jack Daniels after each turn? Oh.....wait......that’s my real life......sorry.


63 posted on 04/27/2012 6:05:35 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Jack Hydrazine; ELS; ToxicMich; Cronos; A_perfect_lady; Art in Idaho; perplyone; TheOldLady; ...

64 posted on 04/27/2012 6:39:04 PM PDT by KevinDavis (Go Mitt Go!!!)
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To: Vaquero

To know what I’m talking about I guess you would have to view the video or read the book. I’m not that good at condensing the idea’s. Yes it is the Goldilocks zone plus multiple other factors that make life possible. The mathamatics of it make accidental life unlikely.


65 posted on 04/27/2012 6:51:47 PM PDT by cotton
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To: Red Badger; KevinDavis

“capable of supporting life”

presuming much?


66 posted on 04/27/2012 8:08:27 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: Red Badger

What is habitable for us, may not be for other life.


67 posted on 04/28/2012 12:32:49 AM PDT by wastedyears (There can be only one.)
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To: Moonman62

I would be surprised if we are the only technical species for 1000 light years. There could be species out there that achieved intelligence faster than we did, and thus achieve space travel before our time line.


68 posted on 04/28/2012 12:36:21 AM PDT by wastedyears (There can be only one.)
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To: cripplecreek
What a bunch of imaginative jerks.

Take it up with the writer. The scientists are saying very little.

Maybe they found evidence of a construct.

69 posted on 04/28/2012 12:38:40 AM PDT by wastedyears (There can be only one.)
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To: wastedyears
I would be surprised if we are the only technical species for 1000 light years. There could be species out there that achieved intelligence faster than we did, and thus achieve space travel before our time line.

That would lead to Fermi's question: Where are they?

The odds against any life forming and evolving to a technological point in any reasonable amount of time are tremendous. Many conditions have to be just right and fairly stable for billions of years.

70 posted on 04/28/2012 4:15:50 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: cotton
a belief system does not necessarily = scientific fact(though it could).

that being said, better a belief system of a positive caring faith than one whose system requires death to all who do not believe, like Islam.

71 posted on 04/28/2012 5:08:04 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: ohiobuckeye1997

Actually the gravity would only ~2Gs as the force is a fuction of mass and the distance from the centre. Because the diameter of the planet would be greater, so would the distance from the surface to the centre. Doubling the distance reduces gravity by a factor of four.


72 posted on 04/28/2012 8:27:26 AM PDT by Squawk 8888 (Tories in- now the REAL work begins!)
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To: Sirius Lee

My own guess is that they’d be able to see infrared.


73 posted on 04/28/2012 8:29:01 AM PDT by Squawk 8888 (Tories in- now the REAL work begins!)
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To: Moonman62

We only have experience with our own world. It might be different out there.


74 posted on 04/28/2012 9:27:28 AM PDT by wastedyears (There can be only one.)
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To: wastedyears

On our own world, life only makes up 3 parts in 10 billion of the mass of the planet. All the other real estate nearby is even more barren, probably completely. I expect that “out there” has the same laws of physics we do, which makes life so rare.


75 posted on 04/28/2012 11:23:53 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: blueunicorn6

The Game of Life was updated in 1991 to reward players for “good” behavior, such as recycling trash and helping the homeless.

An updated version of the game’s 1991 format was released in 2005 with a few gameplay changes. The new Game of Life tried to add in extra elements to reduce chance, although it is still primarily chance based and still rewards players for taking risks.

It also has ‘situations’ like: Buy an SUV........


76 posted on 04/30/2012 7:00:47 AM PDT by Red Badger (Think logically. Act normally.................)
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