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Time to Redefine the "Habitable Zone"?

posted by chromas on Tuesday July 31 2018, @04:53PM   Printer-friendly

takyon writes:

With All These New Planets Found in the Habitable Zone, Maybe it's Time to Fine Tune the Habitable Zone

In the past few decades, thousands of extra-solar planets have been discovered within our galaxy. As of July 28th, 2018, a total of 3,374 extra-solar planets have been confirmed in 2,814 planetary systems. While the majority of these planets have been gas giants, an increasing number have been terrestrial (i.e. rocky) in nature and were found to be orbiting within their stars' respective habitable zones (HZ).

However, as the case of the Solar System shows, HZs do not necessary mean a planet can support life. Even though Mars and Venus are at the inner and the outer edge of the Sun's HZ (respectively), neither is capable of supporting life on its surface. And with more potentially-habitable planets being discovered all the time, a new study suggests that it might be time to refine our definition of habitable zones.

Welcome to the Inhospitable Zone.

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday July 31 2018, @06:49PM (5 children)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Tuesday July 31 2018, @06:49PM (#715334) Homepage Journal

    I dunno about you but my definition includes at least one air conditioner and the means to power it.

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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday August 01 2018, @12:36AM (4 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday August 01 2018, @12:36AM (#715462) Journal

    Your fishing chair is not habitable by this measure, is it?

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    • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday August 01 2018, @02:34AM

      by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Wednesday August 01 2018, @02:34AM (#715490) Homepage Journal

      Nope. Us humans is adaptable and have learned to deal with environments outside what we can normally survive in though.

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    • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday August 01 2018, @04:08AM (2 children)

      by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Wednesday August 01 2018, @04:08AM (#715522) Journal

      It almost was before the hideous atmospheric contamination incident brought on by his borderline-cannibalistic hot wings habit :D Puts one in mind of a certain Johnny Cash song...

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      • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday August 01 2018, @05:28AM (1 child)

        by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday August 01 2018, @05:28AM (#715538) Journal

        his borderline-cannibalistic hot wings habit

        Let me guess.... the "borderline-cannibalistic" means he's mostly eating right-hot-wings.

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        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 01 2018, @12:03PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 01 2018, @12:03PM (#715608)

          I think she means that chickens are actually dinosaurs. But I like your theory too.