Posted on 02/05/2024 6:20:02 PM PST by John W
Could a recently discovered "super-Earth" have the potential temperature and conditions to sustain life?
The new exoplanet is situated "fairly close to us" -- only 137 light-years away -- and orbits within a "habitable zone," according to NASA.
Astronomers say the planet, dubbed TOI-715 b, is about one and a half times the width of Earth and orbits a small, reddish star. The same system also might harbor a second, Earth-sized planet, which, if confirmed, "would become the smallest habitable-zone planet discovered by TESS [the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite] so far," NASA said in a Jan. 31 press release.
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
Jor-El, must you spend all day and night worrying about the probably never going to happen explosion of our planet Kryp
t-t-ton did you feel something?
“Since we’ve ‘detected’ NOTHING so far...”
We are alone...
At the speed of voyager I (38210 mph) it would only take 2.5 million years to get there. The universe is a big place.
There is no space - only time.
One light-year is about 6 trillion miles (9 trillion km). 6 with 12 zeros. 137x6 = 822 trillion miles. Only.
Godless gobbledygook… (we want more $$$)
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4168928/posts?q=1&;page=1
This topic came up before based on patriotandliberty blurb last summer. If you can’t access p, the highlights, 1) if you ramp up to close to speed of light assuming 25 g max, it would take a billion miles to speed up or slow down. 2) likewise if you had to turn, it would be some very shallow sweeping arc. 3) better be sure “nothing” is in your path between here and there.
But of course everybody knows that...
You might say "Those guys look kinda unusual" but that's all...
Good info. My first thought was that a small reddish planet seems ideal but that’s clearly not the case. I’ll have my travel agent cancel my booking ASAP...
*star
I would ONLY take me about a thousand lifetimes to reach “super-Earth.” Then when I find out the planet is uninhabitable it would ONLY take me a thousand more lifetimes to return to earth.
You would be very unWOKE to even think “These guys kinda unusual”, and put into teleport jail if you actually said it.
It has been said that even one year in zero gravity results in significant bone loss and muscle deterioration.
Returning to earth gravity is an extraordinarily difficult and long duration, painful, rehabilitation.
In a time of space travel, people will necessarily adapt, sociologically and in many other ways to these effects.
Likely, space travel will become a lifelong endeavor/profession. Which might make compensation an intriguing prospect, as well.
Unless there is artificial gravity, it is doubtful space travelers would ever choose to re-enter a gravitational environment.
Oh, far be it from me to actually SAY anything. I’d just bump my wife and kinda look... she’d know what I meant. It’s them again...
Thanks! very interesting Read over on that thread. What I was looking for. No solution, but reasonable discussion of the problem.
Choose?
Be able is more like it.
Better start packing.
Are We There Yet? Are We There Yet? Are We There Yet? Are We There Yet?
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