MicroWave@lemmy.world to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoNASA announces new 'super-Earth': Exoplanet orbits in 'habitable zone,' is only 137 light-years awayabcnews.go.comexternal-linkmessage-square3fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up10arrow-down1external-linkNASA announces new 'super-Earth': Exoplanet orbits in 'habitable zone,' is only 137 light-years awayabcnews.go.comMicroWave@lemmy.world to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square3fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareNeato@ttrpg.networklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoUnfortunately super earths aren’t viable for us. They would both have crushing gravity and that gravity would make rockets leaving the planet impossible. Fuel to weight ratio would ensure no one could ever leave.
minus-squaresomeguy3@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoDon’t need to leave that planet in order to colonize it.
minus-squaredb0@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-21 year agoIf we have technology to traverse 100+ ly, we likely have the technology to escae its gravity
Unfortunately super earths aren’t viable for us. They would both have crushing gravity and that gravity would make rockets leaving the planet impossible. Fuel to weight ratio would ensure no one could ever leave.
Don’t need to leave that planet in order to colonize it.
If we have technology to traverse 100+ ly, we likely have the technology to escae its gravity