MicroWave@lemmy.world to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agoNASA announces new 'super-Earth': Exoplanet orbits in 'habitable zone,' is only 137 light-years awayabcnews.go.comexternal-linkmessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up18arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up18arrow-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 · 7 months agomessage-square8fedilinkfile-text
minus-squaretechnomad@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 months agoSo, how much more weight would one be subject to?
minus-squareBrainsploosh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·7 months agoAssuming the same density, about three times as much gravity. Gravity scales linearly with volume which scales with the cube of the width, (3/2)³ is about 3,4.
minus-squarethemeatbridge@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·7 months agoSo we go there to train and come back as superheroes?
minus-squarevoracitude@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 months agoMore like all our joints decay rapidly under the added stress, and we end up with crippling arthritis and an early grave. But maybe some generation of our descendants would be Bulrathi or Klingons or something, after some adaptation!
minus-squareSeabassDan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·7 months agoCRISPR me and send me home, baby!
minus-squaretechnomad@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 months agoThat’s immediately where I went with it. XD
So, how much more weight would one be subject to?
Assuming the same density, about three times as much gravity.
Gravity scales linearly with volume which scales with the cube of the width, (3/2)³ is about 3,4.
So we go there to train and come back as superheroes?
More like all our joints decay rapidly under the added stress, and we end up with crippling arthritis and an early grave. But maybe some generation of our descendants would be Bulrathi or Klingons or something, after some adaptation!
CRISPR me and send me home, baby!
That’s immediately where I went with it. XD