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.
(Score: -1, Troll) by VLM on Tuesday July 31 2018, @06:55PM (7 children)
The odds of them having white people are pretty low, we have entire continents where you're not going to have that kind of technological development. I don't believe that was baked into the Drake equation.
Also there's some geological issues. No matter how smart your pacific islander asian might be on an individual basis, they're not going to industrialize and go to the moon if the best surface or near surface ores they geologically have access to are varieties of lava pumice.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 31 2018, @07:19PM (1 child)
then they'll have to develop a silicate-based material science. :)
(Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday July 31 2018, @08:05PM
There's some nasty dependency gating... Given a heavy industrial steel civilization, you can implement an aluminum civilization, but there's strong chemistry reasons you can't implement an aluminum based civilization first.
We might be able to develop a silicon based material science... only possible to develop in an aluminum/titanium aerospace civilization as a starting point.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday July 31 2018, @07:45PM
boooOOOOOOOooooo
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(Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday July 31 2018, @08:52PM (3 children)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomy_in_the_medieval_Islamic_world [wikipedia.org]
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(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday August 01 2018, @12:34AM
SN 1054 [wikipedia.org] recorded by Chinese and Arab astronomers, the European records are doubious. Fer eff's sake, 'twas visible for two years with the naked eye and for about 23 days was visible during daytime.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 3, Touché) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday August 01 2018, @04:10AM
VLM is either a permanent troll or has gone utterly, completely mad on race-hatred. And it's not too easy to distinguish the two, given how at least one actual honest-to-cheese neo-Nazi specifically said part of the strategy was to pretend to be pretending.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday August 01 2018, @01:26PM
Exactly my point. Pretty weak production for a centuries of empire.