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Doubt it's tidally locked, idiots scientists thought that about Mercury too but it has 1.5 days in a year.
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hemophilia posted:you need a biosphere that won't shred amino acids and shred simple lifeforms with horrible radiation, cook them with heat, or destroy them with weird chemical reactions, and I dunno tidally locked planets don't seem to fit that bill. They don't know if it's tidally locked and are just assuming it is. With certain systems 3:2 resonance(Mercury) or maybe something like 5:2 resonance is more energetically favourable, if that's the case here this planet would have a ~100-180 hour day. This planet is 1.3x Earth mass so could have an atmo like Venus and Earth do, is zooming around a low powered poo poo star so rads may not be a problem if it's stable and doesn't randomly blast poo poo out. It's also apparently 30c on the hot side and -30c on the night side, no idea how they're know that though probably just making poo poo up again.
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Aug 25, 2016 15:33
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Toadvine posted:If you're thinking about watching the movie Europa, don't. I have only a layman's fascination with space and even I recognized how goddamn stupid those astronauts were. Is Sunshine the one where they get 6 people to save the Earth but don't bother screening to see if any are insane sun worshippers?
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Aug 25, 2016 17:10
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Moridin920 posted:that's probably not hard to figure out if you know the star's mass and generally where it is along its lifespan and the distance of the planet in question from the star and none of those are that hard to figure out either You have to guess at the atmosphere though which can play a massive part, the difference between Earth and Venus are mostly due to how Venus is a better greenhouse.
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Aug 25, 2016 17:27
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Toadvine posted:Like drat, did you really ask such a dumb snarky question? Those duders were just space truckers though, if you can only send 6 people or whatever it was to save the planet it'd probably be a good idea to give them a psych evaluation is all I'm saying. It felt really forced and about as bad as the Armageddon space madness.
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