Planet with British weather found 20 light years away A group of boffins claims to have spied the "first discovered terrestrial-mass exoplanet in the habitable zone", the BBC reports. The planet in question is orbiting the much-studied star Gliese 581, some 20 light-years away in the constellation Libra. Of the possible worlds circling the red M-class sun, Gliese 581d had already …
Sounds just like my hometown. All it needs to complete the comparison is no cinema, no nightlife, a body of water so chemically polluted only algae can survive near it, nothing open on a Sunday or after 6pm any other day, so many shoe shops that it's dangling on the edge of the shoe event horizon, and a bunch of young louts doing laps around the one-way system in their chavved-up land speeders.
They'd borrow the money from a neighbouring star whilst saying "sure we'll pay you back!"
Also They used the other planet in the system to house the entire population in a single giant prison, having decided that they are just criminals waiting to commit a crime. (tbh that's just all democratically elected types driven by the intergalactic star franchise "Intergal Mail" and "Binary Sun")
Which is pretty impressive as most of the planets found so far all seem to be > 100 LY from Earth, often by quite a bit.
20LY seems almost "local".
The 16-25g surface gravity does not sound so appealing. That's roughly the mercury abort re-entry force *all* the time.
Thats a bit high, however it would be interesting to see what strange life forms evolved in such conditions.
What I am wondering is if there is an "Exomoon" circling one of the planets in the Gliese system which is more Earth-like, and non tidally locked due to interaction between the "hot Jupiter" and star.
Expect a signal from there around 21/05/11.
AC, because this is classified MJ-12 ATS .
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