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NASA announces new 'super-Earth': Exoplanet orbits in 'habitable zone,' is only 137 light-years away (abcnews.go.com)

submitted 9 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/science@lemmy.world

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The exoplanet, TOI-715 b, is about one and a half times the width of Earth.

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[–] Brainsploosh@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Assuming the same density, about three times as much gravity.

Gravity scales linearly with volume which scales with the cube of the width, (3/2)³ is about 3,4.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

So we go there to train and come back as superheroes?

[–] voracitude@lemmy.world 21 points 9 months ago (4 children)

More like all our joints decay rapidly under the added stress, and we end up with crippling arthritis and an early grave. But maybe some generation of our descendants would be Bulrathi or Klingons or something, after some adaptation!

[–] SeabassDan@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

CRISPR me and send me home, baby!

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Genetic engineering to the rescue.

[–] abbotsbury@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

CRISPR take me away!

[–] spacecowboy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago

Just being sensu beans with us. Worked for Goku!

[–] technomad@slrpnk.net 1 points 9 months ago

Lie to us next time. Lol

[–] technomad@slrpnk.net 2 points 9 months ago

That's immediately where I went with it. XD