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Strange alien world found to have water vapor and possibly rain clouds
NBC News ^
| Sept. 11, 2019, 1:24 PM CDT
| By Chelsea Gohd
Posted on 09/11/2019 12:58:34 PM PDT by Red Badger
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To: SunkenCiv
X-O Planet Ping!.....................
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posted on
09/11/2019 12:58:57 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain......................)
To: Red Badger
This artist's impression shows the planet K2-18b, its host star and an accompanying planet in this system.M. Kornmesser / ESA/Hubble
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posted on
09/11/2019 12:59:50 PM PDT
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Red Badger
(Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain......................)
To: Red Badger
DANG! They found my home planet! We thought you guys were at least a century from this. Bummer.
I’m gonna get called home early. I might as well start packing. Gotta join the armada.
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posted on
09/11/2019 1:01:02 PM PDT
by
cuban leaf
(We're living in Dr. Zhivago but without the love triangle)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
09/11/2019 1:01:44 PM PDT
by
Track9
To: Track9
San Fransicko?..........................
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posted on
09/11/2019 1:03:42 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain......................)
To: Red Badger
Water vapor? Do they not realize that water vapor is essentially carbon dioxide? Holy crap.
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posted on
09/11/2019 1:05:41 PM PDT
by
Go Gordon
(I gave my dog Grady a last name - Trump - because he loves tweets.)
To: Red Badger
Yikes, Ill that place is sticky.
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posted on
09/11/2019 1:08:29 PM PDT
by
Track9
To: Track9
If you think the sidewalks are bad, just wait till you go inside a theater!.....................
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posted on
09/11/2019 1:09:43 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain......................)
To: Red Badger
Most of that planet, by volume, the vast majority is this gas envelope The news just keeps getting worse and worse about this nightmare world. No, not a place for "us," even in the far distant future when we may be able to travel such distances.
To: Red Badger
Yeah, but I bet it doesn’t have Global Warming!
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posted on
09/11/2019 1:17:53 PM PDT
by
Tallguy
(Facts be d@mned! The narrative must be protected at all costs!)
To: LibWhacker
I was surprised to learn that the rings of Saturn contain huge amounts of water. And that they lose the water as “rain” of sorts that falls to the planet.
In spite of having water, I think Saturn is probably still not going to become the vacation spot of the universe.
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posted on
09/11/2019 1:20:59 PM PDT
by
21twelve
(!)
To: Red Badger
Gas giant...you mean like Jerry Nadler?
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posted on
09/11/2019 1:27:47 PM PDT
by
Fresh Wind
(The Electoral College is the firewall protecting us from massive blue state vote fraud.)
To: Red Badger
They found water so it must be a better place than here/s
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posted on
09/11/2019 1:31:37 PM PDT
by
mountainlion
(Live well for those that did not make it back.)
To: Red Badger
If they had water in Frisco perhaps they could wash the $hit off the streets
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posted on
09/11/2019 1:51:56 PM PDT
by
Vaquero
( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: Fresh Wind
He’s a GAS BAG!........................
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posted on
09/11/2019 1:52:18 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain......................)
To: Red Badger
While these researchers found evidence for liquid water clouds on K2-18 b, because of its lack of surface, rain wouldn't pool on the planet. As rainfall travels through the thick gas surrounding the planet's core, it would become so warm that the water would evaporate back up into the clouds where it would condense and fall again, Benneke said. So in reality, they haven't found a planet with water. But beyond that, using one of the fastest space crafts ever developed, the Voyager 1 space probe, it would take roughly 1,736,809 years to travel 100 light years, traveling at its maximum velocity of 38,612 mph. We would still be 173,681 years away. The entire 1 way trip would be 1,910,490 years.
To: Robert DeLong
I’ll wait.......................
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posted on
09/11/2019 2:00:49 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain......................)
To: Red Badger
Well it should pass quickly for you once you go into that long deep sleep. 8>)
To: Robert DeLong
Class M planets are the habitable ones...just ask Kirk, Picard or Janeway.
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posted on
09/11/2019 2:10:00 PM PDT
by
JimRed
( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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