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Welcome to New Earth!; ...beware the red sunlight.
Topic Started: Apr 27 2007, 09:02 AM (271 Views)
Aqua Letifer
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scientists claim they have discovered the first planet that could allow the existence of liquid water on its surface.


http://www.playfuls.com/news_006918_Welcom...d_Sunlight.html
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Strange that in one place it says the temp is 150 degrees celsius and another place it gives a much lower range. Also, would not such a planet have a tremendous gravitational force? If we could land on the planet but a person's weight was 1000 lbs it would be a bit difficult to function.
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Apr 27 2007, 01:43 PM
Strange that in one place it says the temp is 150 degrees celsius and another place it gives a much lower range.

There is a "Neptune-sized planet" (15-17x the size of Earth) that is estimated to have 150° Celcius surface temperature, but that's not the planet they are mainly talking about... it was just given as an example of another planet that we already know to be orbiting that particular sun.


But then the planet they said might have life (only 5x the size of Earth), is estimated 0-40° Celcius.
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Apr 27 2007, 09:43 AM
Strange that in one place it says the temp is 150 degrees celsius and another place it gives a much lower range. Also, would not such a planet have a tremendous gravitational force? If we could land on the planet but a person's weight was 1000 lbs it would be a bit difficult to function.

Depends on the mass of the planet, I suppose.

And we might not be able to live there but maybe other "things" could. ^_^
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Apr 27 2007, 02:29 PM
And we might not be able to live there but maybe other "things" could. ^_^

We assume that water is essential for life... well, it seems to be essential for the sort of life we have on our own planet, at least.
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Thanks for the clarification. Anyway, too bad space travel takes so long (currently) as it would be great fun if we could get a "lander" there and check it out.
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"Life as we know it" has been the phrase used throughout this article.
"Any man who would make an X rated movie should be forced to take his daughter to see it". - John Wayne


There is a line we cross when we go from "I will believe it when I see it" to "I will see it when I believe it".


Henry II: I marvel at you after all these years. Still like a democratic drawbridge: going down for everybody.

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Apr 27 2007, 10:32 AM
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Apr 27 2007, 02:29 PM
And we might not be able to live there but maybe other "things" could.  ^_^

We assume that water is essential for life... well, it seems to be essential for the sort of life we have on our own planet, at least.

Yes, but I refuse to believe that as diverse as even our own Solar System is, life (or possible life) in other reaches of the universe adhere to the same necessities.
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Apr 27 2007, 12:38 PM

even under radically different conditions?

It's a big universe out there. We don't even understand half of it. Anything's possible.
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Apr 27 2007, 04:39 PM
pianojerome
Apr 27 2007, 12:38 PM

even under radically different conditions?

It's a big universe out there. We don't even understand half of it. Anything's possible.

Sorry, misunderstanding.

I meant before that we make this assumption, but that the assumption might not be accurate... that other life forms might *not* need water to survive.

So I think we already agree with each other. :wink:
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Indeedy. :thumb:

Anybody ever read The Taking by Dean Koontz? It's nothing too amazing, but I did like the dialogue about the possibilities of different types of life (plant/animal hybrids, etc) it had.
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