Distant planet judged possibly habitable

Distant planet judged possibly habitable
In findings that if confirmed could stand as a landmark in history,
astronomers report finding the most Earth-like planet outside our
Solar System to date.
http://www.world-science.net

http://www.world-science.net/otherne...ble-planet.htm

That is pretty interesting. Surface gravity of 2G or so, and average
temperatures estimated at 0-40 C. It'd be really interesting to see
what has evolved there, if anything.

Let's see, 20 light-years away... that'll be within reach of our probes
within the century, I'd guess. Can't wait to see what they turn up.

Best,
- Joe

Joe Strout wrote:

http://www.world-science.net/otherne...ble-planet.htm

That is pretty interesting. Surface gravity of 2G or so, and average
temperatures estimated at 0-40 C. It'd be really interesting to see
what has evolved there, if anything.

As it happened, I noted that on the same day that this somewhat
Earthlike planet - orbiting a small, cool, red sun, and with a high
surface gravity - was discovered, there was also news about a new
mineral discovered in Serbia. Neither green nor radioactive, it did
correspond to a chemical formula given as a throwaway line in
"Superman Returns" for Kryptonite, however.

Krypton *and* Kryptonite discovered on the same day?

John Savard

Quadibloc wrote:

Joe Strout wrote:

http://www.world-science.net/otherne...ble-planet.htm

That is pretty interesting. Surface gravity of 2G or so, and average
temperatures estimated at 0-40 C. It'd be really interesting to see
what has evolved there, if anything.

As it happened, I noted that on the same day that this somewhat
Earthlike planet - orbiting a small, cool, red sun, and with a high
surface gravity - was discovered, there was also news about a new
mineral discovered in Serbia. Neither green nor radioactive, it did
correspond to a chemical formula given as a throwaway line in
"Superman Returns" for Kryptonite, however.

Krypton *and* Kryptonite discovered on the same day?

Not bad. You put the kooks to shame. Wait, you are a kook!

Planet Krypton it is then.

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Joe Strout wrote:
http://www.world-science.net/otherne...ble-planet.htm

That is pretty interesting. Surface gravity of 2G or so, and average
temperatures estimated at 0-40 C. It'd be really interesting to see
what has evolved there, if anything.

Let's see, 20 light-years away... that'll be within reach of our probes
within the century, I'd guess. Can't wait to see what they turn up.

Seems to me that no credible probe could deliver results within a human
lifetime of its launch. I cannot see any government being willing to
fund such an enterprise even if it became technically feasible.

Sylvia.

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Joe Strout wrote:
http://www.world-science.net/otherne...ble-planet.htm

That is pretty interesting. Surface gravity of 2G or so, and average
temperatures estimated at 0-40 C. It'd be really interesting to see what
has evolved there, if anything.

Let's see, 20 light-years away... that'll be within reach of our probes
within the century, I'd guess. Can't wait to see what they turn up.

Seems to me that no credible probe could deliver results within a human
lifetime of its launch. I cannot see any government being willing to fund
such an enterprise even if it became technically feasible.

It's hard to say. I mean we're already planning probes that have 5 or more
years of "nothing" before results are returned.

I tend to agree, since we're talking a minimum of 40+ years before results
are returned, but 100 years from now, it could be that a project that size
is done on a University level budget rather than a national government level
budget.

And of course there's the transit itself that could provide some interesting
results.

(btw, I do suspect we're talking far closer to 60-80 years before we get
results back, at least with 100+ years of tech from now. Now if a few laws
of physics are found to be "inaccurate" and we can warp space or perform
some other form of FTL, then the equation changes, dramactically. But I
somehow don't think that'll happen.)



Sylvia.

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Quadibloc wrote:
Krypton *and* Kryptonite discovered on the same day?


Oddly and strangely enough, I was interested in exactly what made
Krypton go "kaboom" yesterday, so went looking for the Wikipedia article
on it.
This was a terrible mistake; by the time I'd gone through all the
connected articles regarding the Superman mythos, not only had three
hours gone by, but I knew the grammatical rules concerning the Bizarro
language.
Anyway, here's where to start...if you're not doing anything for the
rest of the day: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krypton_%28comics%29
You not enjoy this, am you?

Pat

On Apr 25, 10:00 pm, kT wrote:
Quadibloc wrote:
Joe Strout wrote:

http://www.world-science.net/otherne...ble-planet.htm

That is pretty interesting. Surface gravity of 2G or so, and average
temperatures estimated at 0-40 C. It'd be really interesting to see
what has evolved there, if anything.

As it happened, I noted that on the same day that this somewhat
Earthlike planet - orbiting a small, cool, red sun, and with a high
surface gravity - was discovered, there was also news about a new
mineral discovered in Serbia. Neither green nor radioactive, it did
correspond to a chemical formula given as a throwaway line in
"Superman Returns" for Kryptonite, however.

Krypton *and* Kryptonite discovered on the same day?

Not bad. You put the kooks to shame. Wait, you are a kook!

Planet Krypton it is then.

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Mark Evans

On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 12:40:40 +1000, in a place far, far away, Sylvia
Else made the phosphor on my monitor glow
in such a way as to indicate that:

Joe Strout wrote:
http://www.world-science.net/otherne...ble-planet.htm

That is pretty interesting. Surface gravity of 2G or so, and average
temperatures estimated at 0-40 C. It'd be really interesting to see
what has evolved there, if anything.

Let's see, 20 light-years away... that'll be within reach of our probes
within the century, I'd guess. Can't wait to see what they turn up.

Seems to me that no credible probe could deliver results within a human
lifetime of its launch. I cannot see any government being willing to
fund such an enterprise even if it became technically feasible.

That depends on what happens to the length of human lifetimes.

On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 12:40:40 +1000, in a place far, far away, Sylvia
Else made the phosphor on my monitor glow
in such a way as to indicate that:

Let's see, 20 light-years away... that'll be within reach of our probes
within the century, I'd guess. Can't wait to see what they turn up.

Seems to me that no credible probe could deliver results within a human
lifetime of its launch. I cannot see any government being willing to
fund such an enterprise even if it became technically feasible.

Also note that there have been other projects, such as cathedrals,
that took more than a human lifetime to complete.