More Possibilities for Life in Space

[Gene Steinberg]

This article demonstrates there are even more places for life to grow and flourish, even without sunlight:

Planets without stars might have moons suitable for life

Thanks to gravitational squeezing by their host planets, some moons of rogue planets could stay warm for over a billion years, simulations suggest.

www.sciencenews.org

 

[Richard Hawkins]

This article demonstrates there are even more places for life to grow and flourish, even without sunlight:

Planets without stars might have moons suitable for life

Thanks to gravitational squeezing by their host planets, some moons of rogue planets could stay warm for over a billion years, simulations suggest.

www.sciencenews.org

Very good but look at this.

‘Coherent’ radio signal detected from alien planet

New findings suggest planet could have magnetic fields, and therefore is more likely to be habitable

www.independent.co.uk

 

[Gene Steinberg]

Thanks Richard. Yes, I also heard about that.

 

[Richard Hawkins]

Thanks Richard. Yes, I also heard about that.

Amazing what's out there.
To go were no one has gone before.

 

[Gene Steinberg]

Wish I was younger. These revelations are coming a little late for me to consider the consequences in the next few decades as we discover more of what lies out there.

 

[Richard Hawkins]

Wish I was younger. These revelations are coming a little late for me to consider the consequences in the next few decades as we discover more of what lies out there.

Well I'm the same Gene but then I think to myself back in 1974 I was a real Audiophile. Now I can buy a pair of £200 Bluetooth headphones and get that sound through my phone.
It's progress I can remember my Grandfather telling me of going to see a movie called things to come back in the Thirties and him being amazed.
Now most of those things are true,with the exception of the robots but we're getting there.

 

[Trajanus]

The exoplanet with the magnetic field is too hot for life, but at least this proves a prerequisite for habitability exists elsewhere. Moons of rogue planets might be warm enough but it could be a precarious existence, if sufficient warmth requires a moon be near the Roche limit.