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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: 2) by VLM on Tuesday July 31 2018, @07:30PM
As for the why, who benefits, good old Cui bono? angle... so if the gray space aliens from area 51 are working with the CIA and the Russians to defeat Hillary to save the world from nuclear annihilation, you know, the usual non-controversial stuff propaganda outlets like CNN are spewing, then narrowing the HZ definition will keep the usual suspects from screwing up space colonies by claiming prime directive and all that. Yeah yeah I know the Prime Directive is fictional but thats never slowed leftists down, take a look at the UN finding that all of humanity deserves access to white culture and economies, even if (especially if?) it destroys those white cultures and economies.
Anyway I'm just saying in a round about manner that the purpose of this dog and pony show is to proactively limit the power of the EPA and so forth to regulate where I can build my McMansion on Titan or Europa or whatever is probably a good idea. Or, in opposition, a true environmentalist should oppose this narrowing of the habital zone criteria to make sure suburban sprawl from white flight doesn't cover the entire moon or whatevs.