Scientists find 24 'superhabitable' planets more hospitable for life than Earth
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Wonder how that corresponds to Paris agreement ideas...
Of course, a planet that's hotter and wetter presumably has more intense competition and it might be better for us if they can't achieve space travel.
We have low orbital speed just below 8 km/s. A planet with another km/s extra required to get to orbit is quite likely still able to launch rockets.
Then, we launch probes with total speed well above 11 km/s. While that speed is achieved over some time, which incurs gravitational losses, we can still assume that even higher low orbital speed can be achievable by chemical rockets.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geologic_temperature_record#/m...
That's what I thought; still, the definition of habitability needs to change in rather peculiar way here.
'wetter than Earth' ... sounds like what Schiaparelli said about Mars. Eager to hear how anyone can tell us the chemistry on planets when the planets can barely be detected.
This sort of story is worse than none.
At least humans can live on the surface of Venus, given that the gravity is similar. But, the runaway global warming will need to be cooled first.