[KevinDavis]

Our new home....

[KevinDavis]

[Colofornian]

Headline: ...in the Making

(Uh, Institute...'Making' implies a 'Maker' ... so they might just want to use something like 'A Pair of Solar Systems in the Random Chance Development Stage' or something like that)

[who_would_fardels_bear]

In what way will they be "earth-like"? Similar in size? Rocky as opposed to gaseous?

Certainly this won't be a great place to live as the planets that did exist in that system would have very erratic orbits. Those planets would be swung close by and then far away from each of the two suns resulting in large changes in temperatures.

Maybe some form of virus or bacteria could evolve there, but anything approximating a complex life form would have to evolve under the surface.

How will an atmosphere form?

[JerseyJohn61]

The two proto-stars are about 36,000,000,000 miles
from each and take about 4,600 years to orbit around
their common gravitation center.

That seems kind of slow. Could that be because of their
still low density of matter that is still increasing?

JJ61

[libertylover]

There was a show on TV a day or so ago about Steven Hawking and the universe, etc. Their claim was that we (humans) are that[] close to knowing ALL there is to know. All that’s left to know is why is gravity is so weak?

But even if Hawking and crew figure that one out, I’d like know why do so many people still think Marxism can work?

[wastedyears]

It’s gonna be hell as the stars rotate around each other.

[wastedyears]

Also, by the time an Earth-like planet forms over there, we’ll already have a human team a good clip gone from the Sol System heading over there. Probably in a deep cryo-freeze.

I figure it would help if scientists can get to Absolute Zero in an instant, so astronauts won’t die. The only problem would be getting out of it.

[Brad’s Gramma]

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45 posted on Wednesday, July 01, 2009 12:41:31 PM by Jim Robinson (Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/jimrobfr)

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks KevinDavis.

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