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To: Dreagon; RockinRight

It’s true that X-rays and tidal locking would be a huge problem for life on a rocky planet but aquatic life might survive with water to provide some protection from the radiation and also to serve to spread the heat around.


75 posted on 04/24/2007 4:08:28 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (Free Sirhan Sirhan, after all, the bastard who killed Mary Jo Kopechne is walking around free)
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To: muir_redwoods

For what it’s worth, 120 miles is 20.4 light years.

Assuming current technolgy, a massive effort to build a nuclear-pulse engine and space craft(probably could be done in 10-15 years time, if we REALLY got after it) -— say by a benevolent dictator of USA that was really into space.

I bet a voyage would take 30 years one-way, our relativistic time, (5 years to accellerate, 5 to decellerate, 20 years or so at 3/4 speed of light).

Let’s go visit and find out.


77 posted on 04/24/2007 4:20:11 PM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Kol Hakavod Fred Thompson)
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