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| Re: Pack your bags! |
Sat, 02 October 2010 15:36   |
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This planet may be barely habitable... since the rotations are locked and the gravity is slightly higher 200-250%... it would be at best barely habitable.
However, it is time for people to start thinking along those lines... it will take decades to build a ship... by the time the ship is built there will be many prime candidates to choose from.
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| Re: Pack your bags! |
Sat, 02 October 2010 16:43 |
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The mass is a lot higher, but the gravity would be about 1.5G at most. Experimental studies have shown, too, that a tidally locked planet with an atmosphere would still have temperate zones that'd be quite liveable without extreme weather, as the massive wind transfer would be at high altitude.
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| Re: Pack your bags! |
Mon, 25 October 2010 06:30 |
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If you follow the second link, you can see that the Earth is not in the middle of our habitable zone. What it means is that the Earth... is not our homeworld!
And it is still not 100% for us.
So what about terraforming?
The teraform technologies are being secretly developed, which is prooved by a claim of famous russian politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky, who once stated that russian scientist are able to change the gravity value of the planet. He used the words "change a little" so it must be like +- 3% technology.
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| Re: Pack your bags! |
Tue, 26 October 2010 01:04 |
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| Coyote wrote on Tue, 26 October 2010 11:17 |
Increasing gravity is pretty easy, all you need is a large centrifuge. Decreasing it is where we run into technical difficulties. 
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I'f we're talking planets, either is pretty much the same...add or remove mass(in bulk), or for a more localised effect, increase of decrease spin rate...at the equator faster=less gravity. Even on Earth the effect is measurable.
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