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(Some Guy)   Astronomers find a rare rocky Earth-mass planet suited to probe for life signs. Nice   (mpia.de) divider line
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681 clicks; posted to STEM » on 05 Feb 2023 at 10:12 AM (7 weeks ago)   |   Favorite    |   share:  Share on Twitter share via Email Share on Facebook



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Mugato [TotalFark]
2023-02-05 8:34:55 AM  
How are religious nuts going to react if/when we finally find life on other planets?
 
Don Cherry's tailor
2023-02-05 10:17:05 AM  
Isn't Max Planck the guy who did all the cartoon voices?
 
I hereby demand that I be given a Fark account [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-05 10:20:23 AM  
Interesting.

I'm still pressing X to doubt that a planet tidally locked to its sun can be habitable, but they make an argument strong enough that you can't rule it out.

I'd like to be wrong - M-class stars are far more common than G- or F-class, but the fact that the habitable zone is close enough that almost all planetary masses would be tidally locked is a real problem.

Even more interesting would be brown dwarfs - if you can have habitable on a tidally locked planet, you'd likely find lots of terraformable planets that don't have life on them, solving that little moral conundrum of "do we wipe out X to get another planet we can live on?"

Aside: My answer to "would humanity do that" is one of the reasons I pray humanity never leaves the solar system.
 
I hereby demand that I be given a Fark account [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-05 10:20:59 AM  

Don Cherry's tailor: Isn't Max Planck the guy who did all the cartoon voices?


No, he was the famous pirate that invented execution by drowning.
 
mistahtom
2023-02-05 10:30:33 AM  
Fix old, no new.
 
LrdPhoenix
2023-02-05 10:32:11 AM  

I hereby demand that I be given a Fark account: Interesting.

I'm still pressing X to doubt that a planet tidally locked to its sun can be habitable, but they make an argument strong enough that you can't rule it out.

I'd like to be wrong - M-class stars are far more common than G- or F-class, but the fact that the habitable zone is close enough that almost all planetary masses would be tidally locked is a real problem.

Even more interesting would be brown dwarfs - if you can have habitable on a tidally locked planet, you'd likely find lots of terraformable planets that don't have life on them, solving that little moral conundrum of "do we wipe out X to get another planet we can live on?"

Aside: My answer to "would humanity do that" is one of the reasons I pray humanity never leaves the solar system.


The only real problem with tidal locking is if it bakes one side of the planet and freezes the other.  If the stated temperature information was correct, and it's making an assumption of Earth like atmosphere, while the far side of the planet is pretty chilly at -95C/-135F at the coldest, but the side facing is still not all that hot at about 13C/55F at its hottest.
 
Mugato [TotalFark]
2023-02-05 10:32:25 AM  

I hereby demand that I be given a Fark account: Even more interesting would be brown dwarfs


He was funny in Bad Santa.
 
qorkfiend [TotalFark]
2023-02-05 10:56:17 AM  

Mugato: How are religious nuts going to react if/when we finally find life on other planets?


Poorly
 
vudukungfu [TotalFark]
2023-02-05 11:02:47 AM  

Mugato: How are religious nuts going to react if/when we finally find life on other planets?


We will go and report back that we found Jesus living there.
NASA: He's black, has 57 husbands, and thinks Christians are loco.
He has a message for them all: "I just wanted people to be good Jews!"
 
turbocucumber [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-05 11:10:02 AM  
Is the wildlife delicious?
 
EnderWiggnz [BareFark]
2023-02-05 11:16:35 AM  

I hereby demand that I be given a Fark account: Don Cherry's tailor: Isn't Max Planck the guy who did all the cartoon voices?

No, he was the famous pirate that invented execution by drowning.


That was George santos
 
Glorious Golden Ass [OhFark]
2023-02-05 11:54:41 AM  

Mugato: How are religious nuts going to react if/when we finally find life on other planets?


Outright denial of facts.
 
Tom Marvolo Bombadil
2023-02-05 1:43:44 PM  
This is the song about the Earth-mass planet
It's orbiting a nearby red dwarf
He tried to kill me with a forklift!
 
ArcadianRefugee
2023-02-05 1:51:44 PM  
A nearby potentially habitable Earth-mass exoplanet ...
...[at] a distance of 31 light-years....
 
cepson
2023-02-05 1:54:31 PM  
So how much did Universal Cartographics pay them for this?
 
leeksfromchichis [TotalFark]
2023-02-05 2:24:41 PM  

Mugato: How are religious nuts going to react if/when we finally find life on other planets?


Who cares? They react the same to everything
 
leeksfromchichis [TotalFark]
2023-02-05 2:29:48 PM  
I hereby demand that I be given a Fark account:

A light year doesn't sound so far sometimes, but actually it's kind of an insurmountable giant gulf.  The nearest star is 4.265 of them away.  We're not terraforming anything
 
chitownmike
2023-02-05 4:18:57 PM  

Mugato: How are religious nuts going to react if/when we finally find life on other planets?


God works in mysterious ways, it is not our place to question his plan
 
Gooch [BareFark]
2023-02-05 4:46:57 PM  

Mugato: How are religious nuts going to react if/when we finally find life on other planets?


The same way they did when they discovered other continents on this world: colonize, convert, kill, profit.
 
Be polite walk on the right
2023-02-05 6:24:47 PM  

leeksfromchichis: I hereby demand that I be given a Fark account:

A light year doesn't sound so far sometimes, but actually it's kind of an insurmountable giant gulf.  The nearest star is 4.265 of them away.  We're not terraforming anything


we're terraforming Mars.

/get me LaGrange
 
leeksfromchichis [TotalFark]
2023-02-05 7:35:45 PM  

Be polite walk on the right: leeksfromchichis: I hereby demand that I be given a Fark account:

A light year doesn't sound so far sometimes, but actually it's kind of an insurmountable giant gulf.  The nearest star is 4.265 of them away.  We're not terraforming anything

we're terraforming Mars.

/get me LaGrange


We actually take careful steps to sterilize probes to avoid contaminating Mars and other bodies.
 
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