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"The Earth Similarity Index, ESI or "easy scale" is a measure of how physically similar a planetary-mass object is to Earth. It is a scale from zero to one, with Earth having a value of one." Mars is at 0.697, for reference. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Similarity_Index
Well, what has a value of zero?
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For those who also dislike timezone-juggling: http://time.is/1200_23_July_2015_in_EDT?http://www.nasa.gov/...
Now can you link one that uses the ISO 8601 date standard, for those of us who also dislike date juggling?
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For those who also dislike timezone-juggling: http://time.is/1200_23_July_2015_in_EDT?http://www.nasa.gov/...
Now can you link one that uses the ISO 8601 date standard, for those of us who also dislike date juggling?
Here are some other planets we've found with comparable similarity. Note that earth-like similarity does not imply that it is habitable. http://phl.upr.edu/projects/habitable-exoplanets-catalog/dat...
A few zones some think need to overlap and be dialed-in to come close to offering a habitable place: water habitable zone ultraviolet habitable zone photosynthetic habitable zone ozone habitable zone planetary rotation rate habitable zone planetary obliquity habitable zone tidal habitable zone astrosphere habitable zone
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Could you elaborate on what is so weird on that molecule?
He says it in a few different ways in his lectures, but he believed that the psychedelic experience is so strange and full of content that, even if aliens landed on the White House lawn and it made the biggest story in the history of news, it's still not as astonishing as human neurochemistry. I'm not sure I agree, but I think it's good to keep this perspective in mind any time we find ourselves tempted to think of s…
I really keep trying to think whether aliens existing would actually radically change my life, individually. On one hand, maybe, but on the other, probably not (and this is more likely).
I feel like I already experience my existence like I am alien to everything that is not me, whether it is talking to a cat or a person or a tree, the whole thing is like 'reality blob' that I am not really sure how all of this happened, nor do I ever have any hope whatsoever of finding the answer to that question. When I wonder thoughts to myself I wonder who it is that thinks the question and who it is that responds with an answer. So many thinkings are just permutations of what has already been heard, and they form patterns and it's really weird.
It's easy to get 'used to things' and 'acclimated to things', I just feel like I have it hardwired in me to perpetually be weirded out by my own existence. Complexity doesn't even describe it, strange doesn't either, as these are all human concepts. You really just have to learn to observe with a completely blank mind. Then it's just like being in this interface that's always super weird and confusing, and it's ridiculous how some people really think they know what they are doing (like in their deepest philosophical and spiritual core, not like 'have to go to work today to feed the kids').
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I wanted to see the definition to find out what the values were for Venus and Mars: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Similarity_Index Turns out Venus is at 0.444 and Mars is at 0.697 so 0.98 is really close.
I always thought venus was technically in the habitable zone but just has issues with runaway greenhouse. Is that incorrect?
If there is life on that planet, I wonder if it would be similar enough to host infectious diseases. I know the Apollo team was quarantined when they got back from the moon. As someone living on a continent that has undergone one apocalypse, I hope we have a similar procedure to prevent the spread of spacepox.
They need to match our platform.
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A few zones some think need to overlap and be dialed-in to come close to offering a habitable place: water habitable zone ultraviolet habitable zone photosynthetic habitable zone ozone habitable zone planetary rotation rate habitable zone planetary obliquity habitable zone tidal habitable zone astrosphere habitable zone
quite a few of those are not relevant for habitability. for example tides, really? or you wouldn't survive if day would have 40 hours???
Here are some other planets we've found with comparable similarity. Note that earth-like similarity does not imply that it is habitable. http://phl.upr.edu/projects/habitable-exoplanets-catalog/dat...