Many don't know this, but Earthlings are on the Galactic Environmental Predator Watch List and we wouldn't be allowed within a thousand feet of that unmolested planet.
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No guarantee it's class M though. If it is only 5 billion years old, then it may be, but if it is closer to 10 billion, because it orbits close to it's star it would probably be tidally locked--one side always facing its star and the other always facing away.
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In addition, rocky planets do not have oxygen in their atmospheres unless either we terraform them, or if they already have life forms that produce oxygen--meaning the already have an ecosystem that (to be ethical) we perhaps should not dare disturb by invading it.
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& stable ecosystems on Earth (Australia, equitorial rainforests) tend to have a diversity of highly niche-evolved, highly venomous animals in abundance; it may be that a stable environment favors the evolution of toxins as a survival tool.
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& I need to avoid too much speculation in the absence of data.https://youtu.be/NeyF9jyaMDg
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lastly, surface gravity (based on planetary mass which can be inferred from the orbital period) is 3.4 x earth normal. This is about the maximum force permitted on roller coaster rides.
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based on the gravity it would be at best marginally habitable for humans & probably better left under the prime directive especially if there are any indigenous life forms. It might provide an interesting foil to observe how dependent evolution is upon environmental challenges.
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(aside--I first responded to this because it was re-tweeted by someone using a Star Trek twitname, hence using Trek terms like 'class m' that are not real science.)
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There are so many planets that contain life. Unfortunately humans will never get to them because they are too busy killing one another.
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Life will be complicated. Imagine traveling 11 light-years back to Earth to exchange a wedding gift or something and you forget the receipt!
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Let’s all move there and destroy it.
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Ut-Oh. Sounds like more GENTRIFICATION is a-coming.
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Don't tell Nestle
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This might be the greatest tweet I’ve seen all day
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