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9 posted on 05/10/2012 10:29:21 AM PDT by fish hawk (Religion: Man's attempt to gain salvation or the approbation of God by his own works)

Duh. They all self-sustain heat due to global warming.

11 posted on 05/10/2012 10:31:52 AM PDT by Crazieman (Are you naive enough to think VOTING will fix this entrenched system?)

They prepared by driving their SUVs for five billion years to keep their planets warm.

13 posted on 05/10/2012 10:33:19 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (You only have three billion heartbeats in a lifetime.How many does the government claim as its own?)

So , let me get this straight. If we were to drift away from our sun, every phase of all life on earth would be destroyed yet we are supposed to believe that myriads of no sun planets drifting around would be havens for life???

I suspect there would still be life around deep sea vents and anywhere else warm enough to support bacterial life. So far the deepest holes we've drilled in the earth's crust have shown that bacteria survives there.

14 posted on 05/10/2012 10:34:21 AM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)

They could harbor microbial life, and perhaps more, in oceans (buried under a thick layer of ice) kept liquid by heat rising up from the planet’s core and tidal heating, if it has a companion. Europa may be just such a world and it’s right here in our own solar system. Of course, there isn’t any evidence that Europa has life on it, but it could conceivably be habitable for the right extremeophile. We can say that about very few bodies in the solar system.

25 posted on 05/10/2012 11:06:36 AM PDT by LibWhacker

to believe that myriads of no sun planets drifting around would be havens for life???

I think the idea is that , at some point they are bumped out of the 'nest', and take off flying, landing nearby some Star, and produce life because they had good potting soil (minerals, chemicals, etc).

27 posted on 05/10/2012 11:08:58 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)

[ So , let me get this straight. If we were to drift away from our sun, every phase of all life on earth would be destroyed yet we are supposed to believe that myriads of no sun planets drifting around would be havens for life??? ]

Life would stil be on the earth under large ice sheets that are the oceans there would be plenty of black smoking hydrothermal vents that microbal life would flourish around.

If the rouge planet was a “super earth” it may very well be big enough to both generate enough internal heat and if covered by a thick enough atmosphere keep that internally generated heat in so that you could walk around on it with only needing a shirt and shorts.

It would be a delicate balance, but it is possible to even have a life bearing rougue planet whizzing about with intelligent life on it. Such beings living on it would have big eyes in order to see by “starlight” in stead of needing a sun for vision.

I wonder how many planets out there are orbiting so called Brown dwarfs.

62 posted on 05/10/2012 1:50:24 PM PDT by GraceG

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