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Earth-like planet may exist in a nearby star system
phys.org ^
| April 19, 2016
| Tomasz Nowakowsk
Posted on 04/21/2016 10:25:04 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: SunkenCiv
XO-Planet Ping!................................
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posted on
04/21/2016 10:25:24 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(WE DON'T NEED NO STEENKING TAGLINES!...........................)
To: Red Badger
Where can I get a ticket? I’ve had enough of libs, coexist, democrats, #BLM, LGBTWHATEVERS, islam, etc.
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posted on
04/21/2016 10:27:53 AM PDT
by
bgill
(CDC site, "We still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
To: Red Badger
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posted on
04/21/2016 10:28:22 AM PDT
by
b4its2late
(A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
04/21/2016 10:29:55 AM PDT
by
webheart
(We are all pretty much living in a fiction.)
To: Red Badger
The habitable zone for a red dwarf star is very, very close.
Close enough that the planet would be tidal locked so the same face is always facing the star.
Worse, red dwarf stars are quite variable and have lots of flares making temperatures vary wildly.
To: Red Badger
So they haven’t found another planet, only defining the parameters of where to look.
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posted on
04/21/2016 10:35:24 AM PDT
by
Truth29
To: bgill
You might want to hold off rushing to a planet 5X larger than Earth, at least wait until anti-gravity units become portable ‘cause you are going to need one to get around and support the iron lung to keep you breathing.
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posted on
04/21/2016 10:36:26 AM PDT
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
To: Snickering Hound
The habitable zone for a red dwarf star is very, very close.
Close enough that the planet would be tidal locked so the same face is always facing the star.
Worse, red dwarf stars are quite variable and have lots of flares making temperatures vary wildly.
That’s going to make farming and cell phone reception difficult.
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posted on
04/21/2016 10:37:04 AM PDT
by
Idaho_Cowboy
(I Samuel 8:19-20 The New Spirit of America?)
To: Snickering Hound
Flares, high radiation, constant red light ... what a few hundred rads between friends?
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posted on
04/21/2016 10:37:35 AM PDT
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
To: webheart
"Uranus" Couldn't resist, could you.
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posted on
04/21/2016 10:58:36 AM PDT
by
buckalfa
(I am feeling much better now.)
To: Red Badger
Well there are numerous Class M planets in the galaxy. And the inhabitants of those planets are humanoid. They all speak English. And the females are attractive to earth men such as Captain Kirk.
To: Red Badger
As the first mission passes Pluto....
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posted on
04/21/2016 11:02:03 AM PDT
by
BigEdLB
(Take it Easy, Chuck. I'm Not Taking it Back -- Donald Trump)
To: Red Badger
Not the first time this has been in the news. It’s a safe bet to suppose that there are many planets in the universe with Earthlike qualities. I just hope that there is no Hillary Clinton on that planet.
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posted on
04/21/2016 11:06:22 AM PDT
by
I want the USA back
(The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
To: Red Badger
I only want to know one thing: does it have any of these:
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posted on
04/21/2016 11:12:21 AM PDT
by
Telepathic Intruder
(The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
To: Telepathic Intruder
“If the b@tch is green, there must be something wrong with the p****.” - Eddie Murphy (Delirious)
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posted on
04/21/2016 11:13:59 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: b4its2late
Anyone seen my Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator?
To: Resolute Conservative
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posted on
04/21/2016 11:24:25 AM PDT
by
b4its2late
(A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
To: dfwgator
I’ve been meaning to watch that actually.
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posted on
04/21/2016 11:27:43 AM PDT
by
Telepathic Intruder
(The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
To: Red Badger
Earth-like planet may exist in a nearby star system Oh, dear, not this again.
IT'S A FLARE STAR, people. With powerful X-ray flares that can, that those distances, cleanse all life off any putative planet. Come. On. Stop grasping at straws.
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posted on
04/21/2016 11:45:33 AM PDT
by
backwoods-engineer
(AMERICA IS DONE! When can we start over?)
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