Kevin's Watch

Here's the article:

news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/09/30/100-percent-chance-for-life-on-newly-found-planet/?hpt=C2

A few questions:

1. How can anyone claim there's a 100% chance of life when there's absolutely no way to confirm that right now.

2. The planet is tidaly locked it has no rotation isn't that going to create inhospitable terrains on both side of the planet. Perhaps around the terminator it would be okay but it still isn't somewhere I'd like to live.

3. The planet is three times the size of earth with 1g gravity???? How the hell did that happen?

1. They can't, I guess.

2. A lot of lifeforms survive in "inhospitable" environments.

3. Different mineral composition meaning lower density.

100% chance? Well that was just the one guy...but I'd guess anywhere with liquid water, nitrogen, and carbon would have a pretty good chance myself.

If the place has 3-4 times earth mass, that would imply quite a lot of surface area in the zone, even when tidal locked...probably some really nasty weather, though....

surface gravity decreases by squares with distance, mass [and surface area] increase by cubes...4 masses isn't that much bigger size-wise [given same density].

Yeah, the article I read about it didn't say anything about a 100% chance of life.

--A

"The chances for life on this planet are 100 percent. I have almost no doubt about it."

No, it's amazingly inaccurate - and that's the kindest way of saying it that I can think of - to say 100%. Various articles about it say liquid water COULD exist on its surface. It's all huge, wild speculation. It's what they think might be a distance from the star to give it Earth-like conditions. That's about it.

well let's launch the scientist to the planet and he will send word back.

Sgt. Null,

Put up or shut up, I suppose?

I can't wait for the Hershel Space Telescope to get up and Running. Will it be able to get images of this thing? What about the plans for an interfearomiter style field of Telescopes at one of the lagrange points? Would that be able to get a clear image?

sgt.null wrote:well let's launch the scientist to the planet and he will send word back.

But I don't think I can live for the millions of years he'll take to get there!

Vraith wrote:

sgt.null wrote:well let's launch the scientist to the planet and he will send word back.

But I don't think I can live for the millions of years he'll take to get there!

he can use SCIENCE to work that out.

sgt.null wrote:

Vraith wrote:

sgt.null wrote:well let's launch the scientist to the planet and he will send word back.

But I don't think I can live for the millions of years he'll take to get there!

he can use SCIENCE to work that out.

I'm 100% sure he can't. I have almost no doubt.

--A

but the science can solve all our problems. you people have no faith. ummm, i mean - no belief. no that's not it either. damn i need a word. no.....