Alien life more likely on 'Dune' planets

http://www.physorg.com ^ | 09-02-2011 | Provided by Astrobio.net

[Red Badger]

Mars is a desert planet. Credit: NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems

The habitable zone in our solar system, compared to the habitable zone for the red dwarf star Gleise 581. Credit: ESO

Morocco dune at sunrise. Are desert worlds the more common type of habitable planet in the galaxy? Credit: wikicommons / Matanya

[Red Badger]

The Spice must flow..........................

[Incorrigible]

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[Opinionated Blowhard]

But won’t the giant worms eat any life on these planets?

[sniper63]

Mau’ Dib, save us...............

[GeronL]

As long as they aren’t overtaxed by the elite giant worms

[edcoil]

I hate the worms - don’t you hate the worms - Beetle Juice.

[Graybeard58]

if they are too close, steam builds up in their atmospheres, trapping heat that vaporizes still more water, leading to a runaway greenhouse effect that boils all the oceans off the planet, as apparently happened on Venus

If Venus lost its water by being to close to the sun, how did it have water to begin with? Was it at one time, farther from the sun?

[12GA]

Sheeana can control the worms...

[cripplecreek]

The possibilities are pretty much endless.

A while back I was reading about the theoretical possibilities of habitable zones on tidally locked planets.

[winodog]

I think you have a leak in your stillsuit

[17th Miss Regt]

Yes, but the giant wheel now circling the Earth (Louis Farrakhan’s mothership) was circling Venus back then. They saw fit to move Venus to a new orbit and viola. A steambath planet!

[winodog]

If she can take time out from jumping Duncans bones.

[GeronL]

lol

[17th Miss Regt]

That looks like whipped cream on the top of the Mars. Does that mean it is also a dessert planet?

[roaddog727]

“But won’t the giant worms eat any life on these planets?”

Only if the life in question makes enough noise to attract the worm.......

[winodog]

A freeper used that about 10? years ago and cracked me up. I use it every chance I get. : )

[MrB]

I think you have a leak in your stillsuit

If it's your stillsuit, do whatever you want in it I guess.

[KarlInOhio]

That looks like whipped cream on the top of the Mars. Does that mean it is also a dessert planet?

Doon: The Dessert Planet.

[Larry Lucido]