Posted on 12/27/2022 9:21:12 AM PST by Red Badger
2 places the Liberals can call home , please move now
“ load up the liberals and ship them out, their utopia awaits.”
“To Serve Man” - It’s a cookbook!
Voyager 1 or 2 could get there in only about 300,000 years. That’s not too bad.
Don’t get too excited - any Red Dwarf planets would not be prime real estate - from Wiki, FWIW:
Modern evidence suggests that planets in red dwarf systems are extremely unlikely to be habitable. In spite of their great numbers and long lifespans, there are several factors which may make life difficult on planets around a red dwarf.
First, planets in the habitable zone of a red dwarf would be so close to the parent star that they would likely be tidally locked. For a nearly circular orbit, this would mean that one side would be in perpetual daylight and the other in eternal night.
This could create enormous temperature variations from one side of the planet to the other. Such conditions would appear to make it difficult for forms of life similar to those on Earth to evolve.
And it appears there is a great problem with the atmosphere of such tidally locked planets: the perpetual night zone would be cold enough to freeze the main gases of their atmospheres, leaving the daylight zone bare and dry.
On the other hand though, a theory proposes that either a thick atmosphere or planetary ocean could potentially circulate heat around such a planet
Variability in stellar energy output may also have negative impacts on the development of life. Red dwarfs are often flare stars, which can emit gigantic flares, doubling their brightness in minutes. This variability makes it difficult for life to develop and persist near a red dwarf.
While it may be possible for a planet orbiting close to a red dwarf to keep its atmosphere even if the star flares, more-recent research suggests that these stars may be the source of constant high-energy flares and very large magnetic fields, diminishing the possibility of life as we know it.
16 light years is what it says in the article
GJ 1002b is closest to its star and takes just over 10 days to complete an orbit; GJ 1002c is further out, with an orbit of just over 20 days.
For example star GJ 1002 (the star this article is about) has about 10% of the mass of Sol (or sun). And of the two planets orbiting the star, neither is a massive Jupiter-like planet. Thus, any life on either of these planets would suffer frequent life extinction events like our Earth would if we didn't have big brother Jupiter protecting us by sucking in most asteroids into its much larger gravity well. The same for our massive sun (relative to star GJ 1002) pulling in lots of potential life extinction objects into its gravity well. Thus, that event rarely happens to Earth.
That's just one of many characteristics. Then there's the fact that star GJ 1002 is a red dwarf star which tends to be highly volatile with a lot more flares (and since it's smaller the planets are orbiting closer to it than Earth orbits our Sol star...).
We could go on and on and on about how special not just Earth is but also our star is, or even our Milky Way galaxy is. The more you look at it, the more the most plausible explanation seems to be is that it's specifically created for life by God. Then once you realize that, when it comes to determining if there's advanced life elsewhere it becomes a question of if God decided to create life elsewhere besides just Earth. I don't know the answer to that.
Really whizzing around- a guy would get dizzy
—% near the sun??? WTF...
Yes, but it’s a dry heat
Just because humans would likely die under such conditions does not mean another form would not thrive.
Humans cannot live under the oceans without aid, or at the bottom of the Marianas Trench, or in hot volcanic undersea vents - but other forms do.
Life is everywhere. It just that we would find Earth-like planets more to our liking, than say Mars
A red dwarf star will not support life.
A robotic probe could get there in under a hundred years. Long range planning might make it worthwhile.
This attempt to scale down the Goldilocks Zone is a joke. 10 and 21 day years? Yikes.
lol, oh yeah, like Vegas...
“There’s no point in acting surprised about it. All the planning charts and demolition orders have been on display at your local planning department in Alpha Centauri for 50 of your Earth years, so you’ve had plenty of time to lodge any formal complaint and it’s far too late to start making a fuss about it now. … What do you mean you’ve never been to Alpha Centauri? Oh, for heaven’s sake, mankind, it’s only four light years away, you know. I’m sorry, but if you can’t be bothered to take an interest in local affairs, that’s your own lookout. Energize the demolition beams.”
Think about how few organisms could survive on land if we didn't have a magnetic field blocking much of the radiation. Our planet's molten highly metallic core seems to be a unique occurrence, but I guess it's possible to find another planet with one.
But can you find one that has a strong magnetic field, while also being in the goldilocks zone for liquid water? And have enough tectonic activity to stir up heavy elements from the bottoms of oceans and the earth's crust, but not so much tectonic activity that it kills too much advanced life? And not have a synchronous rotation with its host star (it's common for the same side of a planet to face the star like the same side of the moon faces the earth)? Etc...
lol - and now for some Vogon poetry …
We’ve been 60+ years getting people to Mars....Maybe in another 30?
Don’t Panic!
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