The new map showing ice water found around the crater identified by Express.co.uk
Posted on 10/08/2015 11:20:25 AM PDT by Red Badger
The new map showing ice water found around the crater identified by Express.co.uk
A bit chilly, though.
Define “Life”.
Have you ever been hit by a gust of wind off the lake in mid-January in Chicago?
I hate to be a spoilsport but Pluto isn’t going to have life. The conditions required for life as we know it aren’t even close to possible on Pluto.
Yep, grew up there.
Is there a Plutonian?
They keep searching - hoping that they can prove that there is no God.
Is there a Plutonian?
a cartoon ?
And there's the rub - life "as we know it" is pretty limited. If Earth itself is any indication, the more we search, the more we will find.
Yeah, okay.
From Space.com (emphasis mine) - At its warmest, when it is closest to the sun, Pluto can reach temperatures of minus 369 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 223 degrees Celsius).
Well, “life” occurring on it’s own is very common.
The recipe appears to be: take some “dirt”, add water, make sacrifices to the god - “time”, and viola! Life!
Then you know the definition of ‘bitter cold’..
Potential home for islamists, BLM and the like, cold has a way of tamping down aggression a bit.
In the absence of serious kinetic compression, that ice is going to be harder than steel. And without something to provide outside energy to the planet, any subsurface ocean would have frozen long ago.
At least on Europa, you have the gigantic tidal forces generated by Jupiter to (theoretically) knead the moon’s core like play-doh, keeping it molten and providing energy (through marine volcanoes) to keep the water liquid and supplying minerals and other nutrients that could be taken advantage of by life.
A human body is way more complicated.
I was thinking the same thing.
Very little life on Earth can survive beyond -20C (and we're talking organisms here, not sentient life forms) and it's not even theorized that anything could exist at the temperatures on Pluto.
Keep in mind that it takes Pluto 248 YEARS to orbit, so those balmy temperatures you speak only come around for a few days four times a millennium.
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