Posted on 12/27/2022 9:21:12 AM PST by Red Badger
That is a faith based belief.
One of my favorite movies, and scenes. The best one, hands down, was “Consider that a divorce.”
Mass and orbits in an “habitable zone” alone do not define the necessities of being an “Earth like” planet. Even the addition of spectrum of reflected light and “thermal readings” do not provide anything near sufficient data to refer to the planets as “Earth like”.
Far too too many psuedo-science reports are becoming representatives of the non-science of mere wishful thinking.
So is Mayhem.
Common sense, not faith.
The radiation alone I would think would kill anything on the planet.
And if it has no magnetic field, all bets are off................
I think you can kiss off complex life on planets and star systems like this. With a star this cool, the habitable zone must be very close to the star to have liquid water. This means the plane is in tidal lock - one side always faces the star - much like only one side of our moon faces Earth. Basically, this means one side only is hot, the other never sees the light of day and is very cold, and where they meet is an area of violent weather.
A crappy place to live.
Point made - thanks for the back up!
“Nature seems bent on showing us that Earth-like planets are very common.”
This statement is entirely political which is to say not at all scientific.
It’s no surprise this claim is at the very top of the article.
The purpose of this article is to undermine Biblical faith and to promote communism and Satanism.
This means the orbiting planets are probably tidally locked to the star, which means one side is always facing the star and the other side is facing away. It's unlikely these are "habitable" or "Earth-like" planets.
But the hype should keep the funding going.
damn, i’ll prolly be busy...
dude, it’s the wording, not the distance...
16? Even0.01 light years will require 1000 generations born in rocket ships to reach the planet. Can you imagine in-breeding for 1000 generations?
They are not impossible to get to, for someone with sufficient patience.
It may take hundreds of years before a launched probe sends back data, but not “impossible”.
XO Planet Ping!................
“16 light years is what it says in the article”
Practically walking distance.
“186k m/sec. It’s the law!” [Delta 21, post 11]
Respectfully suggest rechecking your units.
Velocity of light in a vacuum is a little under 300,000,000 m/sec. That’s over 186,000 statute miles per second.
Yeah you ain’t kidding. Better bring along a book to read.
And everybody make sure to go to the bathroom before we leave!
The above image has a very misleading label in the article. It doesn't show relative distance, but instead where the various planets fall in the habitable zone around their respective stars.
The innermost of the two planets (b) is actually about 20x closer to the red dwarf than Earth is to the sun. The other is about 13x closer.
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