To: Red Badger
Why in the world do they call it a super-earth? It is too large for use by humans, the gravity would be too high. It has too little water and is too far from the sun and is too cold. It has no relationship to Earth at all. Calling it a naked Neptune is reasonable.
They want so badly to find an earth normal planet that they are going to build expectations constantly by using the word, Earth.
4 posted on
05/06/2011 7:27:42 AM PDT by
wbarmy
(I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
To: wbarmy
They want so badly to find an earth normal planet that they are going to build expectations constantly by using the word, Earth. They have no other word to describe a large rocky planet............
7 posted on
05/06/2011 7:36:20 AM PDT by
Red Badger
(Mitt Romney: The Harold Stassen of the 21st century........)
To: wbarmy
>>Why in the world do they call it a super-earth?<<
Simple. From Earth comes man. from Super Earth comes Superman.
It’s actually Krypton and was not destroyed.
8 times the mass. Why do you think he’s so strong?
15 posted on
05/06/2011 7:48:14 AM PDT by
RobRoy
(The US today: Revelation 18:4)
To: wbarmy
Actually, the gravity would be tolerable. 2x earth mass means ~1.4g.
25 posted on
05/06/2011 8:14:42 AM PDT by
Squawk 8888
(Tories in- mission accomplished)
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