this post was submitted on 03 Nov 2024
80 points (100.0% liked)
Wikipedia
1560 readers
238 users here now
A place to share interesting articles from Wikipedia.
Rules:
- Only links to Wikipedia permitted
- Please stick to the format "Article Title (other descriptive text/editorialization)"
- Tick the NSFW box for submissions with inappropriate thumbnails
Recommended:
- If possible, when submitting please delete the "m." from "en.m.wikipedia.org". This will ensure people clicking from desktop will get the full Wikipedia website.
- Interested users can find add-ons and scripts which do this automatically.
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
"The study of Gliese 581c by the von Bloh et al. team is quoted as concluding "The super-Earth Gl 581c is clearly outside the habitable zone, since it is too close to the star."[4] The study by Selsis et al. states that "a planet in the habitable zone is not necessarily habitable" itself, and this planet "is outside what can be considered the conservative habitable zone" of the parent star, and further that if there was any water there then it was lost when the red dwarf was a strong X-ray and EUV emitter, it could have surface temperatures ranging from 700 to 1,000 K (427 to 727 °C), like Venus today."
Oops. A message to nobody I guess. :(
Our definition of "life" is very narrow. Let's broaden it to the widest possible definition: A lifeform is any self-sustaining system that takes in energy against the entropic gradient to synthesize information storage/replication-systems for the ultimate purpose of creating a new generation of lifeforms. Once we broadened the definition, then we are no longer constrained by the Earth-centric conditions.