Water found on Life Friendly Planet

[Risottia]

We can't attack. We'd die because of the high gravity.

The Xenos will die FIRST, as, thanks to the high gravity, they are crushed by the asteroids we'll dump on them.

(and yes, I now also see it is a mere 1.42G, which we are quite capable of enduring)

Yay! Invasion!

[Kowani]

Does it have oil?

Uranium?

111 light years away. Kinda hard to check.

[The Blaatschapen]

Does it have oil?

Uranium?

111 light years away. Kinda hard to check.

Fine.

I'll go.

Don't wait on me for dinner.

[Ors Might]

Imperium of Man intensifies

[Kowani]

111 light years away. Kinda hard to check.

Fine.

I'll go.

Don't wait on me for dinner.

[Topoliani]

Invests all my money in FTL

[Mint Jelly]

111 light years away. Kinda hard to check.

Fine.

I'll go.

Don't wait on me for dinner.

GOD DAMMIT!!

[Rojava Free State]

Breaking news: aliens decide to hide

[Diopolis]

https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog ... gravity-us

Actually, according to this it’d be more like 1.42G, so 50% higher then earth.



But it’d also require a magnetic field to start with, for example I think Mars lacks one.

There's good reason to think that a terrestrial planet's magnetic field is linked to it's size. And that larger planets are more likely to have strong magnetic fields.

Isn’t the sweet spot for habitability something like 1.5x earth gravity?

[Diopolis]

Does it have oil?

Uranium?

High gravity worlds are more likely to have valuable heavy metals like uranium.

[Salandriagado]

Given it's ten's of times bigger than earth then I assume gravity is ten's of times greater than on earth,

meaning it would be likely life would find it difficult to grow over a certain size, or be extremely lightweight and somewhat fragile.

They'll be easy to beat.

Attack!

That's not how it works. Higher gravity => stronger creatures, because they spend their entire lives holding up more weight. That's also not how gravity scales.

[Gormwood]

Given it's ten's of times bigger than earth then I assume gravity is ten's of times greater than on earth, meaning it would be likely life would find it difficult to grow over a certain size, or be extremely lightweight and somewhat fragile.

They'll be easy to beat.

Attack!

Or they'll all be Sontarans.

[Cannot think of a name]

Given it's ten's of times bigger than earth then I assume gravity is ten's of times greater than on earth, meaning it would be likely life would find it difficult to grow over a certain size, or be extremely lightweight and somewhat fragile.

They'll be easy to beat.

Attack!

Or they'll all be Sontarans.

Pff, we just need a tennis ball to the back or something like that.

[Russoslava]

I'm of the theory that if there is life out there it's nothing more then bacteria. If there is life out there intelligent at that, and assuming they've been around the same time I feel like we would have made contact at some point. I'm also of the theory if there are aliens, they look just like us. If you've seen the Twilight zone episode where a bunch of scientists and people escape their plant to avoid the coming nuclear war they came to Earth at the end of it. So, if there are "Aliens" I believe they'll look like us.

[Tombradyonia]

Does it have oil?

Uranium?

Only if it has/had life.

Probably.

So it might need some freedom™.

[Russoslava]

Only if it has/had life.

Probably.

So it might need some freedom™.

Not a fan of the Make Maine Massachusetts again. Being from Maine I hate Massachusetts.

[Cannot think of a name]

I'm of the theory that if there is life out there it's nothing more then bacteria. If there is life out there intelligent at that, and assuming they've been around the same time I feel like we would have made contact at some point. I'm also of the theory if there are aliens, they look just like us. If you've seen the Twilight zone episode where a bunch of scientists and people escape their plant to avoid the coming nuclear war they came to Earth at the end of it. So, if there are "Aliens" I believe they'll look like us.

I don't know, there's so much random bullshit that had to happen to result in what we landed on that there is bound to be some variation. I guess there might be some things that are likely to be factors that lead to what we would call an intelligent species, which I guess is one that has complex language and builds shit. I'm not an anthropologist (if only this forum had one...maybe one who moderated it...) so it's all half remembered shit...like the ability to carry shit I think I remember being a factor. Environmental pressures that favored cooperation...something like that. So maybe bipeds or something. I don't know enough about the things that make up the things...

[The Derpy Democratic Republic Of Herp]

Colonize it now!

Democratic Human Space empire time!

OK, how motherfucking huge will the sum of money necessary to get there be?

How much will we get from the mining and water from zed planet?

[Petrolheadia]

Colonize it now!

Democratic Human Space empire time!

OK, how motherfucking huge will the sum of money necessary to get there be?

How much will we get from the mining and water from zed planet?

What's with you and "zed"?

[The Derpy Democratic Republic Of Herp]

Colonize it now!

Democratic Human Space empire time!



How much will we get from the mining and water from zed planet?

What's with you and "zed"?

I don't know why I can't find this on google or anywhere, but 'zed' I have heard from IRL people is just the subject of what ever is being talked about.

[Stellar Colonies]

What's with you and "zed"?

I don't know why I can't find this on google or anywhere, but 'zed' I have heard from IRL people is just the subject of what ever is being talked about.

"From said planet"?

[Chan Island]

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/09/first-water-found-in-habitable-exoplanets-atmosphere-hubble-kepler-k2-18b/

So, considering the grand number of threads that are utterly depressing, combative, or just plain shitstorms, I wanted to celebrate something big in science that just went by. A planet, tens of times larger than earth has been found to have water on it. (No, we didn’t go, it’s through water vapor absorbing light. The article has more info on how that works.) That’s noteworthy, but not overtly so-other planets have been found to have water before. Thing is, this one is in the Goldilocks Zone of its respective star, making it the most likely candidate for life that we know of.

Sadly, we can’t exactly check-it’s 111 light years away. But SPACE!

So, NSG, do you think there might be life on this planet? Would it be worth it to go? Not just for extraterrestrial life, but also as a secondary planet for us? And if there was life, what would happen?

Well, at that size it'd probably be a water world. Anybody up for some space fishing? Only 111 light years away!

[Auze]

111 light years away. So if we finish Breakthrough Starshot and aim for the star system, we should reach there in merely 450 years! of course, it will take another 111 years to get any message back if at all, but hopefully we will FTL transport by then

[Rio Cana]

Does it have oil?

Uranium?

High gravity worlds are more likely to have valuable heavy metals like uranium.

On a documentary they were saying that even if a high gravity planet had a civilization chances are that they would not be going into space since it would be too difficult and expensive to escape there planets gravity unlike on our planet.

Edit - By the way, water has been found on Mercury but you do not see anyone trying to go there. Read - https://www.space.com/18695-water-ice-m ... aphic.html

[Northwest Slobovia]

Does it have oil?

Uranium?

High gravity worlds are more likely to have valuable heavy metals like uranium.

...in space-themed 4X games, yes. IRL, we have no idea.