Habitable Planet outside fo the solar system

[Bill3000]

By the way, there was a show on a hypothetical example of how life might look or work on a planet like this (assuming it has life, of course) - Aurelia.

 

[Fugitive Sisyphus]

As you can see from my math above, Gliese 581 c experiences about 50 times the tidal effects of Mercury.

Are you sure you did the math right? You post says you compared Mass*Distance^(1/3) when you should be comparing Mass1*Mass2*Distance^(-3).

 

[Masquerouge]

Are you sure you did the math right? You post says you compared Mass*Distance^(1/3) when you should be comparing Mass1*Mass2*Distance^(-3).

ooooooooh challenged!

 

[Bluemofia]

Why not combine the two? I've always argued towards creating an Intergalactic Battle Fleet of Doom. We can explore, and blow things up!

Ha, one at a time, one at a time. You don't try to invent a car before the invention of the wheel.

 

[Bill3000]

Are you sure you did the math right? You post says you compared Mass*Distance^(1/3) when you should be comparing Mass1*Mass2*Distance^(-3).

No, he got it right. He's comparing force per mass (the per mass being the one in which the tidal force is being applied to) and the 1/3 was a typo.

 

[Perfection]

Edit: Bill's right, my calculations should be fine. It is a typo

 

[Love]

Aliens is attacking!!!!!!

 

[Xenocrates]

Aliens is attacking!!!!!!

http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Planet_find_gets_British_bookies_sc_04252007.html

British bookmakers wasted no time slashing the odds on aliens being discovered after astronomers announced Wednesday that they had discovered an Earth-like planet.

William Hill cut the odds on proving the existence of extra-terrestrial life from 1,000-1 to 100-1.

"We felt we had to react to the news that an Earth-like planet which could support intelligent life had been discovered -- after all, we don't know for sure that intelligent extra-terrestrial life has not already been discovered, but is being hushed up," said spokesman Graham Sharpe.

I think maybe they should stick to horses! At least racing's a fair game with no cheating, secrecy or conspiracies.

 

[Fugitive Sisyphus]

Edit: Bill's right, my calculations should be fine. It is a typo

That's good. I was too lazy to have made the calculations myself. But at any rate there can't be many terrestrial planets that are close enough to red-dwarfs to have large enough tidal heating to be active.

 

[Yeeek]

How old is the universe anyway? What are the odds that "we" are the first intelligent life form? Not quite sure if my question is clear enough...

Anyhoo, I was reading about the Panspermia theory. Very interesting.


What about the "Drake Equation"?

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

How about a spaceship that lets humans reproduce..

 

[Bill3000]

The universe is 13.7 billion years old.

Panspermia ultimately has the problem of shifting the question.

 

[Eukaryote]

Perhaps insyead of Alpha Centuri spaceships in civilization should fly to 581 c.

 

[Newbunkle]

Breaking News: The scientist who discovered the planet has decided to name it "Arse". (nah, j/k, but that's what I would have called it).