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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.
Whenever my imagination starts to run wild with the possibility of a huge announcement of this variety, I always like to remember what Terence McKenna said about this: "if aliens were to land on the front lawn of the white house tomorrow, it would not change the fact that the weirdest thing in the universe is DMT."
Could you elaborate on what is so weird on that molecule?
From my personal experience in psychedelics, all of them, LSD, mushrooms and so forth, the user still maintains a reference point to reality around him however weird it might look. With DMT, the whole content of present reality disappears and you are seemingly transported in a completely different reality booming with alien intelligence (described by DMT users as self transforming machine elves) that purportedly is also very happy to see you "broken through". Users also report an incredible amount of information being transmitted to them, albeit completely indescribable by present human language and concepts and find themselves being under a dome-like structure (called the "DMT Dome").
From what I know, these effects are only present if you follow a specific dosage and no less than that.
Another strange fact is that while all other psychedelics are boundary dissolving substances with your ego first to get booted, with DMT you apparently "maintain" your present self throughout the trip.
This is what the "Death by astonishment" quote of the same author, refers to.
It's interesting to note that the highest ESI so far has been Kepler-62e with a score of 0.83 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Similarity_Index ). So a score of 0.98 would seem significant.
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For those who also dislike timezone-juggling: http://time.is/1200_23_July_2015_in_EDT?http://www.nasa.gov/...
Thanks for sharing that. I've been looking for something like this. Traveling and juggling meetings in multiple timezones is a big source of anxiety for me. I'm always wondering if I did the math wrong or if there is a daylight savings I haven't accounted for.
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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???
I think it's more like if the day was 100 msec that you have to worry about. Also, if the day is too slow, then one side of the planet bakes while the other side freezes. Think of the rotation axis as a spit roaster.
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.
If there is life there is probably bacteria and viruses. But it's unlikely they would be harmful for us. They need to match our platform.
As of now, the content linked says nothing more than the PR announcement from yesterday -- so either the title is misleading, or the OP comes from the future. (I'm aware he might have other sources for the title, but it's still misleading)
How is this link even on the front page? There's no sauce for anything in the title unless OP works for NASA...
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For those who also dislike timezone-juggling: http://time.is/1200_23_July_2015_in_EDT?http://www.nasa.gov/...
Hey, you guys remember swatch beats?
cricket noises
http://phl.upr.edu/projects/habitable-exoplanets-catalog/dat...
EDIT: Unless that list was literally just updated with ESI 0.98 planet this thread is referring to...