But what is the climbing like?

[olyclimber]

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/space/04/24/exoplanet.reut/index.html

[RogerJ]

Could we send Al Gore there to check on global warming?

[Dechristo]

It appears to have a mass five times that of Earth's.

 

hard

[olyclimber]

They only have one of them there red dwarfs. Probably couldn't even cook a hotdog with it. But Big Oil is probably drilling there right now.

[G-spotter]

5 times the Earth's mass but what is the radius?

 

B/c those high gravity planets are teh suck. V0 feels like V10.

[AlpineK]

Could we build a rocket and send Kevbone to investigate?

[Dechristo]

5 times the Earth's mass but what is the radius?

 

estimate of 1.5 X Earth's diameter, if I recall correctly.

[catbirdseat]

Do the math. Volume is proportional to mass. And V= 4/3pi®^3

[EWolfe]

They only have one of them there red dwarfs. Probably couldn't even cook a hotdog with it. But Big Oil is probably drilling there right now.

 

Leave it to The Red Dwarf to dis this thread. We don't hate you, Bro.

[Dechristo]

Do the math. Volume is proportional to mass. And V= 4/3pi®^3

 

I'm only quoting the article

[tvashtarkatena]

5 times the Earth's mass but what is the radius?

 

estimate of 1.5 X Earth's diameter, if I recall correctly.

 

You're looking at more than doubling your Earth weight.

 

Definitely a place where taun tauns would command a premium.

 

Plus, a 13 day long year. Ice climbing one weekend, beach volleyball (helium filled) the next.

[minx]

but damn i'd get old quickly.

[tvashtarkatena]

Birthday hangover every 2 weeks. Ouch.

 

And the gift buying!

 

What a shithole.

[olyclimber]

but you would live longer

[tvashtarkatena]

Too bad they can't pin down a day length on this mofo.

 

What if the day is longer than the year?

 

THAT would fuck with Outlook, for sure.

[tvashtarkatena]

At 2x earth gravity, I can see myself as a SCUBA instructor....

[archenemy]

"Because of its temperature and relative proximity, this planet will most probably be a very important target of the future space missions dedicated to the search for extra-terrestrial life," Xavier Delfosse, a member of the team from Grenoble University in France, said in a statement.

 

 

ooohhh a hunting expedition!

[Jim]

At 20.5 light years away don't hold your breath for the results.

[tvashtarkatena]

We need to put Bush on Mars before we can fund the Extraterrestrial Planet Finder, which could determine whether or not there might be plant life on this rock.

 

Normally, I'm not much for manned space flight, but in this case....

[Dechristo]

that's not far once we build one of these jewels...no, not Jodie Foster.

[kevbone]

Could we build a rocket and send Kevbone to investigate?

 

So proud to be nominated.

[E-rock]

Do the math. Volume is proportional to mass. And V= 4/3pi®^3

 

The planets have to have equivalent densities for this equation to be useful .

[archenemy]

The answer is 42

[SmallShoes]

Using g = 9.81 = G(mass of Earth)*(radius of earth)^-2

and the planet in question has 5 times the mass and 1.5 times the radius of the Earth, the planet should have about 2.22 g.

 

Gary - Care to check my calculations?

[drater]

5 times the Earth's mass but what is the radius?

 

B/c those high gravity planets are teh suck. V0 feels like V10.

 

 

pfft...like you know what v10 feels like.