Posted on 09/29/2010 7:43:30 PM PDT by Redcitizen
WASHINGTON Astronomers say they have for the first time spotted a planet beyond our own in what is sometimes called the Goldilocks zone for life: Not too hot, not too cold. Juuuust right.
Not too far from its star, not too close. So it could contain liquid water. The planet itself is neither too big nor too small for the proper surface, gravity and atmosphere.
It's just right. Just like Earth.
"This really is the first Goldilocks planet," said co-discoverer R. Paul Butler of the Carnegie Institution of Washington.
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And .. We’ll debate ya’ll .. Anytime and Anywhere!
Maybe you should ask ol' unck Joe or any other dawinist about the chances of it happening twice. Or what the mathematical chances of it happening once.
Finally, an alternative to Gitmo.
Interesting that you went with the original rather than the modern.
(Me and The_Reader_David, that is!)
Well, if you were on the ship, and it was really traveling at the speed of light, take comfort that the journey would be instant as far you were concerned.
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I have trouble with this, too. If a planet is tidally locked, it would get searing hot at the point that has the most direct sun, and freezing cold on the back. Although atmospheric winds would moderate this somewhat, I can’t see a situation where life would take hold without any sort of day-night cycle or where the sun never moves in the sky.
Again, we should name it. Planet Reagan sounds good...
"It is about three times the mass of Earth, slightly larger in width and much closer to its star 14 million miles away versus 93 million. It's so close to its version of the sun that it orbits every 37 days. And it doesn't rotate much, so one side is almost always bright, the other dark.
Temperatures can be as hot as 160 degrees or as frigid as 25 degrees below zero, but in between in the land of constant sunrise it would be "shirt-sleeve weather,"
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I think these 'scientists' are going with some pretty 'low' standards for 'earth-like'. Calling it a GOLDILOCKS planet is stretching it a bit.
It may have life forms on it's surface. It just depends. All stars are lifegivers (and takers) but, not all seeds produce. A planet too close to it's Sun, gets sterilized.
The whole Universe is a primordial soup in an infinite pot.
Except the premordial soup theory is just speculation without any evidence to support it. Basically the chance of it occuring is about the same as if a tornado went through a junkyard and created a 747. This is because the basic building block of life, DNA, is as complex as a supercomputer. Therefore its virtually impossible that some premordial soup created life even once, let alone several times.
There certainly may be life on other planets, but they were created just like all life, by Intelligent Design.
>>Interesting that you went with the original rather than the modern.<<
Oh heck yeah! I can still hum both versions of the theme music — the first with the whistle and trumpets, the second with the french horn.
I did some work with June Lockhart and she even talked about setting me up with her daughter Annie (never happened, dang it — that was when Anne was in Battlestar Galactica and too busy to date).
June gave us great stories about LIS, and she loves to tell anyone who will listen that they almost all walked off the set when Irwin Allen (a known cheapskate) had them battling vegetable people.
Right. Because we've seen it happen so many times.
Have you ever tried to kill poison ivy?
You rock!!
True. But there may be an infinite combination of countless parameters that produce life forms from the energy of the main star. They may all be 'extremely' different from the life forms of another 'GOLDILOCKS' planet.
As we see on Earth, there is no end to the variety of life forms produced by the Sun. So many that we discover new ones daily, and ... we've been at it a long time.
The only thing faster than the speed of light, is the speed of dark.
I can cite proof, if anyone wishes.
Touché
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