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Putin_Delenda_Est t1_j768uoe wrote

Probably a good way to get attention for your paper but tidally locked, red dwarf and a 16 day day orbit are probably not ideal.

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F4RM3RR t1_j76t9f4 wrote

Winds on that planet would be insane

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Putin_Delenda_Est t1_j778lcv wrote

New headline: Scientists find windsurfing planet!

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nembajaz t1_j784zgh wrote

And it's only 31 light-years from our asses.

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Memetic1 t1_j79r2n4 wrote

Venus is right next door, and if you don't mind not living on the ground it's pretty habitable given our current technology. You can make graphene from co2, and then you could use that graphene to build more habitat. The sulfuric acid also isn't as much as a problem as people make it out to be. Sulfuric acid H2So4 which is just 2 waters bonded by a sulfur atom. If you have sufficient electricity sulfuric acid can be turned into water. It even has phosphorus which is essential for all life.

If you want to surf the skies Venus would be the target.

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LyleSY t1_j7br8cl wrote

Yes, but robots first please. I’d like things to be very very stable and safe before I buy my ticket

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Memetic1 t1_j7bx7xb wrote

They are sending a few missions to Venus. One of them even utilizes a balloon to stay in the upper atmosphere for an extended period. I would rather see crewed missions to Venus then Mars. Mars has dozens of ways to kill you while the environment in the clouds of Venus is comparatively simple. The only thing that would give me real pause is if we discovered life on Venus.

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sweetnumb t1_j79d91b wrote

If you're referring to your momma's ass, then the other cheek is only a few light-minutes away.

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F4RM3RR t1_j78uxyk wrote

No it’s about convection. With the tidal lock, on side would be much warmer, and the other much colder.

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0002millertime t1_j79mj48 wrote

Well, yeah. It spins exactly once per revolution around the star. This is exactly what the other person was talking about.

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hanlonsaxe t1_j76ywi8 wrote

It would be nice if we used different words for habitable for humans, and habitable for some kind of life in general.

But then no one would click. I guess that could be the title for the chapter in the 22nd century history book about this era.

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LightChaos74 t1_j77i2r4 wrote

Sorry, what do you mean by no one would click? Like it wouldn't work all together?

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ogorangeduck t1_j77mizv wrote

Nobody would read the article (click on it to read past the headline)

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rogerdanafox t1_j7al6ba wrote

Are you familiar with the term Clickbait?

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LightChaos74 t1_j7c6nwf wrote

Yeah, for some reason I didn't put that together til after I commented. Not sure where I was at mentally

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marketrent OP t1_j78zbhx wrote

>hanlonsaxe

>It would be nice if we used different words for habitable for humans, and habitable for some kind of life in general.

>But then no one would click. I guess that could be the title for the chapter in the 22nd century history book about this era.

Who is ‘we’?

Do you mean that the majority of users in r/science may not read linked content, or excerpts in comments?

Do you also mean that such users need in-title explanations for scientific words?

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marketrent OP t1_j783met wrote

>Putin_Delenda_Est

>Probably a good way to get attention for your paper but tidally locked, red dwarf and a 16 day day orbit are probably not ideal.

Top-level comment may indicate user(s) who do not read comments preceding theirs.

From the linked summary^1 for D. Kossakowski, et al.,^2 in my excerpt comment:^3

>Although the rotation of this planet, named Wolf 1069 b, is probably tidally locked to its path around the parent star, the team is optimistic it may provide durable habitable conditions across a wide area of its dayside.

>The absence of any apparent stellar activity or intense UV radiation increases the chances that Wolf 1069 b could have retained much of its atmosphere.

^1 A nearby potentially habitable Earth-mass exoplanet, Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, 3 Feb. 2023.

^2 D. Kossakowski, et al. The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Wolf 1069 b: Earth-mass planet in the habitable zone of a nearby, very low-mass star. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202245322

^3 https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/10te3ex/newlydiscovered_earthmass_exoplanet_named_wolf/j767v94/

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Seared_Beans t1_j779zs3 wrote

Not to mention interstellar travel won't be feasible for hundreds of years. We gotta focus on more pertinent things

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Putin_Delenda_Est t1_j77c6ud wrote

I’m sure this paper isn’t going to stop us from figuring out how to stop climate change.

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Pigs_in_the_Porridge t1_j79cpl0 wrote

Why should that be the expectation? Can't you think of other reasons to find habitable planets other than some supposed place for us to flee to (which is a dumb idea).

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Tobias_Atwood t1_j7allh2 wrote

Humans have had an insatiable urge to explore, chart, and colonize every square inch of habitable land for as long as we've been humans.

The morass of space will not stop us. We will spread and claim and consume until we have conquered every last bit of empty of space in the galaxy. Even if it takes us a million years.

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timberwolf0122 t1_j78gq0l wrote

Well, interstellar probe travel should be possible before then, but humans are leaving the solar system anytime soon without some revolution in tech.

One day we will make it, probably in massive several km long O’Neil cylinders powered by nuclear drives able to scavenge interstellar gasses.

First though we should be looking get a dyson ring round the sun to solve power needs

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mypantsareonmyhead t1_j78yy0o wrote

>Not to mention interstellar travel won't be feasible for hundreds of years

Based on what, exactly?

This is nonsense.

Interstellar travel may NEVER be feasible.

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jskeezy84 t1_j779fo6 wrote

Would you feel the physical effects of a 16 day orbit? I imagine it would feel like your in a centrifuge.

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Putin_Delenda_Est t1_j77bvsm wrote

We’re moving incredibly fast now but you don’t perceive it. The red dwarf might take up a huge portion of the sky and would be a different colour, which would be cool.

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libginger73 t1_j77my3k wrote

Would it affect circadian rhythms...like getting really tired every 8 hours or something?

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Ezekiel_29_12 t1_j77pjo9 wrote

No, but its day is essentially the same as its year, so the sun wouldn't appear to move in the sky, and the planet has a day side and a night side and the lack of light changing would be a tiny irritation. But if you colonized it you'd sleep indoors anyway and artificial lighting would provide a normal sleep cycle.

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libginger73 t1_j78p1q5 wrote

I have always wondered about planets that rotate slower or faster and if that would affect things like sleeping and aging etc. I suppose your body gets tired after x hours of waking so yes artificial lighting and black-out curtains could help, but in place very far north, it's well known that we simply don't do well in limited day or night environments. Still would be interesting to see if we ever get to be interplanary!

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MarkHirsbrunner t1_j79zfmq wrote

Red dwarfs are redder than our sun, but they aren't really a color anyone would describe as red. Their surface temperatures are around the same as the filament of an incandescent lightbulb or hotter, which means it would be about the same color as an old fashioned light bulb.

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