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Gliese 581g

Yeah, I know NASA has found many planets really far away that seemed suitable for life in the past, but I still find this pretty interesting. No signs of water, presumably yet. Three times the size of Earth and its temperatures range from 160 to -25 degrees (Since it wasn't specified, I'm assuming Fahrenheit for now). Now, I'm no expert when it comes to gravity and the most I remember about the planet's size in relation to gravity comes from an old Magic School Bus episode despite having learned all about it later in school, so can anyone tell me whether or not I'm totally wrong for assuming that the gravity's at least three times that of Earth's for now? Don't the surrounding stars and moons have a large impact on it as well? I know that our moon affects the ocean tides...

Now all we need is to develop warp drives so we can actually get to these planets because 120 trillion miles is pretty fucking far away. I'm sorta curious as to just how they're discovering these planets and checking out their atmospheres, so I guess I'll go look into that now.



On a completely unrelated note, since I don't wanna create a new topic for this, Sway, what the fuck is up with the picture of the dog?

[Sway]

Surrounding bodies do certainly have an effect (how much I'm unsure -- perhaps it's not astronomical, hahahahahahahahaha!), but you really have to take into account the planet's density (and mass) moreso than its diameter. I don't know how to just up and figure that stuff out from data given, but I know it's not as simple as "size is 1:1 with gravity." For example, Mars' diameter is about half of Earth's, but it has nine times less mass. In any case, I'd imagine there are some better planets to pick before we go all the way there. If we had the technology to go 120 trillion miles away, I think we'd also have the technology to terraform a closer planet. But I think at the rate we're going, we may never get that far technologically and will either wipe ourselves out or wait until the red giant sun engulfs the planet.

As for the dog, deal with it.

[Gold_TSG]

*reads "Goldilocks"*
Fuck you too, NASA...

Seriously though, it sounds interesting, but I don't see where they think 160 to -25 degrees is "habitable." Not to mention the amount of daylight/night.

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I'm betting that the 160 and -25 degree marks are the peak and bottom temperatures, most likely found in deserts and tundras, respectively.

This post has been edited by ???????: 30 September 2010 - 10:32 PM

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???????, on 30 September 2010 - 10:32 PM, said:

I'm betting that the 160 and -25 degree marks are the peak and bottom temperatures, most likely found in deserts and tundras, respectively.

Possible.

[Green]

I'm still waiting for us to get to Mars, I was under the impression that we had the technology for at least that. Maybe its some budget thing that I'll never understand.

[Kvitne]

The planet already has a Twitter account.

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Kvitne, on 08 October 2010 - 09:21 PM, said:

The planet already has a Twitter account.

Haaa! Awesome.