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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Article says 22, but still a long way off. Plus when we we get there, we will all weigh three times as much. I think everybody who doesn’t commit suicide on the way there from “space despair”, won’t last long in such an environment.
I saw a sci fi short movie one time where some folks either landed or crashed onto a rainy planet. There was no life, just a maze of rocks and relentless pouring rain. They could find no shelter, and they all died one by one like the folks in “Open Water”. I could imagine that life on a heavy planet would be very dreary. All the girls would have HRC boobies and just getting up out of bed would be exhausting. 180 lbs becomes 540 lbs.


21 posted on 03/06/2015 6:01:57 PM PST by BRK
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To: BRK
It's actually not quite that bad. Doubling a planet's mass does not double the gravity on the surface, because the surface will be further from the centre and the inverse square law applies. Without doing detailed calculations I would guess that this planet's surface gravity is roughly 1.5G. Very uncomfortable but can be tolerated.
43 posted on 03/06/2015 7:10:22 PM PST by Squawk 8888 (Will steal your comments & post them on Twitter)
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