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Under new definition of The Goldilocks Zone, Earth nearly doesn't qualify!
On Jan 31, 9:52*pm, Yousuf Khan wrote:
Earth and others lose status as Goldilocks worlds - space - 30 January 2013 - New Scientisthttp://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23118-earth-and-others-lose-sta... "Shockingly, Earth – which used to be smack-bang in the middle of our sun's habitable zone – is now a scant million kilometres away from the warm edge, so almost too hot for liquid water. Of course, we know Earth is robustly life-friendly – the mismatch is probably because neither definition accounts for clouds, which reflect sunlight away from Earth. As Earth shows, the Goldilocks zone is no ultimate judge of habitability, something exoplanet researchers have known for years. As well as clouds, volcanic activity or the location of other moons or planets in the solar system, may be important for life to develop on planets like Earth." Perhaps humans are never meant to be on planets that are too cold, too hot, too dry or even too wet. Perhaps the intelligent design which seeded various planets and moons made that perfectly clear, as to which species and level of intelligence was going to be allowed to thrive. Obviously we humans can not survive as naked Goldilocks on 95% of our planet as is, and it's getting a whole lot warmer and measurably stormier by the year. Why not instead of our having to alter the global environment of the planet, or wait millions of years for nature to take its course, just adapt ourselves by using raw intelligence and applied physics? Do open pit mining operations do anything to making their pits look and feel pretty? Do underground mining operations make their excavated tunnels into tunnels of Eden? Do submarine crews attempt to drain their oceans so that the surrounding pressure goes away? Do astronauts have to keep sucking up any passing particles so that space remains a vacuum? Where exactly does it say that heaven isn't too hot or too cold, or simply too wet or too dry, and having an atmosphere that isn’t different? Is there any terrain on any other planet or moon that’s as unusual or as geometric utility looking, as what this one small area of Venus has to offer? Be my guest and apply your very own photographic enlargement software, as to viewing this one small but rather interesting area of Venus, using your independent expertise as to enlarge or magnify this mountainous area of Venus that I’ve focused upon shouldn’t be asking too much. Most of modern PhotoZoom and other photographic software variations tend to accomplish this automatically, although some extra filtering and dynamic range compensations can further improve on the end result (no direct pixel modifications necessary). “GuthVenus” 1:1, plus 10x resample/enlargement of the area in question: https://picasaweb.google.com/1027362...18595926178146 http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/imgcat/hi...c115s095_1.gif https://picasaweb.google.com/1027362...8634/BradGuth# http://translate.google.com/# Brad Guth,Brad_Guth,Brad.Guth,BradGuth,BG,Guth Usenet/”Guth Venus”,GuthVenus |
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Under new definition of The Goldilocks Zone, Earth nearly doesn'tqualify!
On 01/02/2013 9:59 AM, Brad Guth wrote:
Perhaps humans are never meant to be on planets that are too cold, too hot, too dry or even too wet. Perhaps the intelligent design which seeded various planets and moons made that perfectly clear, as to which species and level of intelligence was going to be allowed to thrive. Obviously we humans can not survive as naked Goldilocks on 95% of our planet as is, and it's getting a whole lot warmer and measurably stormier by the year. It shows that Goldilocks Planets have a lot to do with making themselves Goldilocks Planets than just their stars. Yousuf Khan |
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Under new definition of The Goldilocks Zone, Earth nearly doesn't qualify!
On Feb 1, 2:35*pm, Yousuf Khan wrote:
On 01/02/2013 9:59 AM, Brad Guth wrote: Perhaps humans are never meant to be on planets that are too cold, too hot, too dry or even too wet. *Perhaps the intelligent design which seeded various planets and moons made that perfectly clear, as to which species and level of intelligence was going to be allowed to thrive. Obviously we humans can not survive as naked Goldilocks on 95% of our planet as is, and it's getting a whole lot warmer and measurably stormier by the year. It shows that Goldilocks Planets have a lot to do with making themselves Goldilocks Planets than just their stars. * * * * Yousuf Khan Indeed, having a nice/friendly star is always a good place to start, but otherwise a sufficient gas giant would also be sufficient, especially if the tidal forces interacting with its planet sized moons give the geodynamic modulation to go along with the residual core heat, by which intelligent Goldilocks should be good to go within considerable extremes. Intelligent Goldilocks should be capable of extending their survivable range by at least 4:1 (.75 to 3 AU), although it seems terrestrial Goldilocks as we know of can't hardly manage to survive on what most of Earth has to offer. |
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