To: SunkenCiv
X-O Planet Ping!.......................
2 posted on
06/17/2022 8:04:44 AM PDT by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Red Badger
" . . . orbiting a cool red dwarf star called HD 260655, which is just 33 light-years away."
Just 33 light-years away? I might check it out sometime.
To: Red Badger
5.9 trillion miles x 33 = lots. We’re not going there, anytime soon.
4 posted on
06/17/2022 8:07:41 AM PDT by
Carriage Hill
(A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
To: Red Badger
Why do they call them super-Earths? There is no similarity except for the fact that they are both planets. They are more in line with Neptune in size and they are out of the habitable zone.
Just trying to get clicks on the article.
5 posted on
06/17/2022 8:08:03 AM PDT by
wbarmy
(Trying to do better.)
To: Red Badger
Whoopy do, totally meaningless bs, man could NEVER get there, so who really cares...
To: Red Badger
While the worlds are unlikely to be habitable...
IOW, they are not “super earths”. The whole draw of another “earth” is, to use a Star Trek phrase, that it is a “class M” planet. If it isn’t, it’s just another interesting planet, but don’t forget your space suit.
9 posted on
06/17/2022 8:16:44 AM PDT by
cuban leaf
(My prediction: Harris is Spiro Agnew. We'll soon see who becomes Gerald Ford, and our next prez.)
To: Red Badger; MtnClimber
To: Red Badger
16 posted on
06/17/2022 8:41:04 AM PDT by
null and void
(We're trapped between too many questions unanaswered, and too many answers unquestioned...)
To: Red Badger
Let’s go!
18 posted on
06/17/2022 8:47:10 AM PDT by
The Louiswu
(We couldn't 'afford' $4 billion for Trump's wall at the southern border?)
To: Red Badger
The fastest spacecraft we’ve had so far is NASA’s Parker Solar Probe. After it launched from Earth in 2018, it skimmed the Sun’s atmosphere and used the Sun’s gravity to reach 330,000 mph (535,000 kmh). That’s blindingly fast – yet only 0.05% of the speed of light.
It would take 66 millennia to reach 33 light years away.
22 posted on
06/17/2022 9:25:46 AM PDT by
Alas Babylon!
(Rush, we're missing your take on all of this!)
To: Red Badger
They’ll be no landing and walking around. Super earth means super gravity.
To: Red Badger
Oh great! New worlds for liberals to destroy!
28 posted on
06/17/2022 10:27:03 AM PDT by
Lazamataz
(The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
To: Red Badger
36 posted on
06/17/2022 11:51:33 AM PDT by
frithguild
(The warmth and goodness of Gaia is a nuclear reactor in the Earth's core that burns Thorium)
To: Red Badger
"The inner exoplanet, HD 260655 b, is around 1.2 times the size of Earth and twice the mass of Earth, and orbits the star every 2.8 days. The outer world, HD 260655 c, is 1.5 times the size and thrice the mass of Earth, and has a 5.7-day orbit."I've fallen and I can't get up, and I seem to be aging rapidly.
"Sadly, even though the star is cooler and dimmer than the Sun, the proximity of the planets to HD 260655 means the worlds would be way too hot for life as we know it. HD 260655 b has an average temperature of 435 degrees Celsius (816 Fahrenheit), and HD 260655 c is a milder but still scorching 284 degrees Celsius (543 degrees Fahrenheit)."
I can't breathe
38 posted on
06/17/2022 11:58:17 AM PDT by
DannyTN
To: Red Badger
just 33 light-years away Math is never a journalist's strong suite.
39 posted on
06/17/2022 12:06:36 PM PDT by
Hardastarboard
(Don't wish your enemy ill; plan it. )
To: Red Badger
Earth’s atmosphere seen from afar would look like a nearly paper-thin coating, wouldn’t it?
41 posted on
06/17/2022 12:12:18 PM PDT by
JimRed
(TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
To: Red Badger
Does that mean they have super Chicagos, super NYCs and super DCs?
No thanks.
42 posted on
06/17/2022 12:18:42 PM PDT by
dljordan
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