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The Goldilocks Zones around various type stars. Credit: NASA Kepler Mission

Goldilocks moons

1 posted on 01/21/2012 2:16:30 PM PST by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv

I’ve always believed that moons are the best place to be. If our solar system is any indication, there must be 50 or 60 thousand moons just among the planets we know about.

There are at least 200 moons in our solar system.


3 posted on 01/21/2012 2:32:17 PM PST by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: SunkenCiv

“What they found was that orbits in the Goldilocks Zone farther out, around the pair of Kepler 16’s low-mass stars, are stable on time scales of a million years or more, providing the possibility that life could evolve on a planet within that HZ.”

IMHO, The only monkey wrench in that scenario is that there never has been macro-evolution as the God haters attempt to peddle it, so the whle premise has slightly less validity, even, than the fairy tale of Goldilocks and her Ursine Encounter of the Third Kind!


4 posted on 01/21/2012 2:36:11 PM PST by Tucker39
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To: SunkenCiv

Dear SunkenCiv,
First of all, may I say that YOUR stellar/astronomically informative threads are very interesting and usually include objects of beauty in the heavens. This particular threads reminds me of some of the information included in the DVD presentation: THE PRIVILEGED PLANET.

A little while ago I made a boo-boo. After it was too late and I’d already posted my reply on your thread I realized that it WAS YOUR thread.

Now, to MY mind, once someone posts a thread or makes a reply to one, that thread, as well as any and all replies, are fair game for opinions spanning the entire spectrum of possibilities.

But since you have taken offense and castigated me for posting occasional replies which you don’t like, I have made it a point NOT to post replies on your threads. This time I replied without looking who had posted it. Mia culpa!

However, I don’t mind repeating that once a thread is posted it is open for all to enjoy or not, and to agree or disagree, or to praise or criticize.


6 posted on 01/21/2012 3:05:59 PM PST by Tucker39
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