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Bizarre new planet is largest known rocky world, 40 times as massive as Earth
(www.nationalgeographic.com)
this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2023
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If there's life on that planet, they gonna have a hard time making it to orbit
I actually wonder what's the biggest (rocky) planet that is actually possible to launch a chemical rocket from. At some point you just can't get enough thrust to weight, right? They'd have to resort to exotic stuff like nuclear fission engines.
I'm not a smart person, but my calculator says that a 200lb person would weigh 4 tons so I'm not totally sure there could even be multicellular life on that planet. Plus any atmosphere would probably be quite thicc