New planet may be "just right" for life

More than twice the size of earth? Heavy duty. :drumroll:
 
It's certainly an important find, but without knowing what the atmosphere is like, I'd be more cautious. After all, viewed purely from a planetary size / orbital distance from star perspective, Venus could be Earth's tropical twin sister. Yet conditions there could not be less friendly to life as we know it. A crushingly deep, hot CO2 atmosphere that's nearly 7% the density of water (and no longer technically a gas) at the surface, where temperatures can get high enough to melt lead. There is a region, some 50km or so up in the atmosphere where pressure and temperatures are both comfortable by terrestrial standards, provided you don't mind being in a haze of concentrated sulfuric acid vapour.

Having said all that, there's probably some polyextremophile that would be at home in said (cloud layer) environment.
 
Who bets the anti-climatists will run to build a spaceship and encourage us to pollute more?
 
What I'm more curious about is; which planets are pointing sensitive telescopes at planet Earth?
 
faethor said:
Who bets the anti-climatists will run to build a spaceship and encourage us to pollute more?
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that's why the 1% should move there and live in their own pollution.

and leave the rest of us alone
 
theonestonecutter said:
i find the universe largely disinterested in us... or so i hope
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We'll probably stay boring and unnoticed. Until of course we discover the black monolith on the dark side of the moon.

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Glaucus said:
We'll probably stay boring and unnoticed. Until of course we discover the black monolith on the dark side of the moon.

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".. the monkey sat on a pile of stones..... and stared at the broken bone in his hand..."

 
faethor said:
Do you mean Phobos? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phobos_monolith

If I had to guess this 'monolith' will be like the Face on Mars -- with different angles and better resolution cameras it'll be found to be something mundane and natural.
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Nah, the monolith I'm talking about is black, emits the occasional magnetic field, has the unique dimensions of 1, 4 and 9 and has a haunting soundtrack.
 
Glaucus said:
We'll probably stay boring and unnoticed. Until of course we discover the black monolith on the dark side of the moon.
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How about a Cloaked Romulan ship hiding near Mercury?? (2:17)

 
Thanks Metalman. That's as amusing as the monolith from aliens on Phobos stories.
 
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