My personal glimpse into the first half of the 21st Century for some yet to be known future
Friday, December 02, 2022
Saturday, December 04, 2021
Ten Commandments are not so simple - several traditions, and the actual list which is often sidestepped
Wednesday, June 02, 2021
Wednesday, May 26, 2021
Fun and Important Words: Highfalutin
Highfalutin is a word with mysterious origins. Typically, the word means pompous, arrogant, haughty, pretentious or excessively ornate or bombastic, often in reference to a manner of speech.[1](1) However, how such a word came to mean such things is not known definitively. The alternative spelling of "hifalutin" doesn't offer any clues, either. It's common for dictionaries to claim it highfalutin is derived from the words "high" and "fluting". Although this may make sense, it is actually not likely according to other sources. Long before highfalutin was first recorded, another term meaning something similar already existed, "high flown". It seems more likely that highfalutin is a corruption of high flown. I've used highfalutin from time to time. However, my use of the work tends to carry an ironic tone. Between the spellings, ngram shows that highfalutin is a lot more common than hifalutin, these days. The rise in use of highfalutin also seems to roughly coincide with the reduction of usage for the term high flown.
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Thursday, April 29, 2021
Fun and Important Words - Boondocks
Boondocks is a word that is borrowed from Tagalog, being carried over from the Philippines by US soldiers in the early days of US colonization. In Tagalog, the origin word "bundók" actually means "mountain". However, usage in the English language sees a meaning of a rural and sparsely populated area. Another word for this is sticks.[1](1) It is common to hear both "boondocks" and "sticks" used similarly, such as "out in the boondocks" and "out in the sticks".[2] Either word can have negative connotations, being used to refer to areas where the people are backwards and unsophisticated. However, when I occasionally use "boondocks", it's really just to describe an area that is out-of-the-way and deep in rural country. Although "boondocks" is often cited as entering English around the turn of the 20th Century, ngram shows it's use in writing didn't really take off until World War II.
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Tuesday, April 20, 2021
Why I don't fear a US Constitutional Convention and yet still do not want one
Also read Article 1 section 2 paragraph 3 of the U.S. Constitution and why you aren't being represented! |
“The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress; Provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate.” -Article V, The United States Constitution, 1787[1]
That is to say:
- 2/3rds approval from the House and Senate, followed-up by ratification by 3/4ths of all states' legislators. This process has been used for 26 successful amendments.
- 2/3rds approval from the House and Senate, followed-up by ratification by state ratifying conventions within 3/4ths of the states. This process has been used for 1 successful amendment.
- 2/3rds of state legislators applying to Congress (House and Senate) to create a Constitutional Convention, followed-up by ratification by 3/4ths of all states' legislators. This process has never been used.
- 2/3rds of state legislators applying to Congress to create a Constitutional Convention, followed up by ratification by state ratifying conventions within 3/4ths of the states. This process has never been used.
Guess what‽ It's actually harder to change the US Constitution via the Constitutional Convention method. Congress is still heavily involved in the process.
A Constitutional Convention doesn't get to magically change the Constitution at will. All the Constitutional Convention does is provide a forum separate from the US House and Senate to discuss a proposed Amendment, then vote to bring the proposal to individual states, with a 2/3rds super majority required to do so. The requirement for ratification of the Amendment is still the same. 3/4ths of all state legislatures or 3/4 of ratifying conventions from all states.
The Constitutional Convention is a very unstable route to take, as fundamental questions about the process are not addressed in the Constitution.[2] For example, there are no quorum rules for discussions once the convention is underway. Also, does each state get one representative at the convention, or is representation equal to the Electoral College with voting among the representatives of a state to decide their state's vote? Then, what happens if a state rescinds its application for the convention and the convention is no longer requested by the required 2/3rd of states? What happens if such an application is rescinded during or after the convention takes place? Since the convention is still organized by the US Congress, does Congress have the ability to limit the scope of the convention (i.e., "what's your hot take on this proposed amendment" as opposed to "go ahead and write a new amendment")? Do the state applications limit the scope themselves? If the scope is limited, could Congress or Federal Courts invalidate the convention approval if the scope is deemed to be exceeded? Etc.
Anyway, I foresee that we'd have nothing short of a political quagmire if a Constitution Convention is ever established. Most likely result is no changes will come of it, save for a bunch of lawsuits questioning every step along the way. Those lawsuits may answer some questions about the process by the courts, but that would only benefit future generations in their attempts to have their own Constitutional Conventions.
Also see: How to find your US representatives and tweet them
Wednesday, April 14, 2021
Fun and Important Words - Fussbudget
Fussbudget is a word with a strange composition, and no one is really sure as to why. A fussbudget is a hard-to-satisfy person who is excessively anxious, bothered or concerned about many little details; that is to say, a fussy person.[1][2](1) The word "fussbudget" is presumably a compound of the words "fuss" and "budget". The "fuss" portion of "fussbudget" is kinda obvious, if one takes it to mean "fussy" rather than just "fuss". "Fuss" is simply to show unnecessary excitement about something. Whereas "fussy" is being worried about details or not easy to satisfy. The "budget" part of "fussbudget" is much harder to identify. Many sources take it to mean a leather bag. So, it might be said that the term comes from the idea of someone having a bag full of concerns. This kinda makes sense, since we also have the word "fusspot" (fuss+pot) which carries similar meaning, but referencing a pot instead of a bag.[3][4](4) I use this word from time to time. I'm not going into details as to where and why since the word can carry negative connotations. However, it's a fun word to use. In American English, there seems to be a marginal preference for "fussbudget" over "fusspot" according the ngram. However, British English shows a strong preference for "fusspot".
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Monday, April 12, 2021
Fun and Important Words - Whopperjawed
Whopperjawed is a awesome word that really does roll of the tongue. It's not a common word (yet). You won't find it listed in any printed dictionaries. However, there are some great entries for whopperjawed on Urban Dictionary. Whopperjawed describes something that is disheveled, askew, crooked, stuck in an awkward position, or any combination thereof.[1][2][3](1)(3) One of the difficulties with establishing a common usage of the word is that it has many regional variations, such as lopper-jawed, wapper-jawed, whomper-jawed and others (with a hyphen or not). Of these, "wapper-jawed" seems to be the most historic, with a recording as early as 1825. "Whopperjawed" appears in a letter by Mark Twain in 1863.[4](4) Although I don't use this word everyday, I do use it regularly, as situations arise. It's is a fun word to say. It's also fun introducing "whopperjawed" to others who haven't heard it before. Sometimes, but not always, the word may appear with the intensifier "all", as in "all whopperjawed".[5](5) Based on an ngram chart, "whopper-jawed" variant seems to be the most common. "Whopperjawed" without the hyphen is the second most common. Arguably these are the same thing since compound words often start out with a hyphen that is eventually dropped. Whomperjawed/Whomper-jawed is the next most common variant. Photographic example: Whopperjawed house
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Sunday, April 11, 2021
Fun and Important Words - Gobbledygook
Gobbledygook is a great sounding word that almost rolls of the tongue (for English speakers). According to Oxford, it's a word used to describe words, phrases and speech that are "unintelligible by excessive use of abstruse technical terms". In simpler language, it's hard to understand or nonsensical jargon.[1][2][3] (backup links 1, 2, 3) It's ironic that the Oxford definition for gobbledegook sounds like gobbledygook itself. The word is derived from an onomatopoeia of a turkey sound, though the use of gobbledygook is technically not the turkey noise itself. Typically I do not have the need nor opportunity to use this word in every day language, but it does come up once in a while. As far as I remember, my first exposure to the word is from normal family conversations while growing up (1970s/80s). For me personally, that says a lot about the commonality of this young word. Despite it's recent entry into the English Language (1944), the word has found its way deep into our common lexicon, often in politics or government-related rants.[4](4)
Weirdly, there's a blip on the ngram usage graph for gobbledygook from 1921. Without any way to see the source referenced by Google, it's hard to tell if this is an earlier coining or if it's a false-positive.
Gobbledygook is sometimes mentioned along with gibberish when discussing lexicon. However, gibberish is a more general term used to describe nonsense speech, regardless to reason. Gobbledygook is more specific, referring to technical language that is nonsensical.
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Friday, February 12, 2021
Recent news tour of our Solar System from Mercury to FarFarOut
Some recent news tour of our Solar System:
- Mercury: Study Reveals MESSENGER Watched a Meteoroid Strike Mercury - Combing through data from NASA's MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging (MESSENGER) mission to Mercury reveals it likely watched a meteor slamming into the planet.
- Venus: Life on Venus? The Picture Gets Cloudier, doubtful - After a sensational announcement about the possibility of life on Venus, new doubts arise.
- Earth: Astronomers Think They've Found Another Trojan Asteroid Lurking in Earth's Orbit - A recently discovered object sharing Earth's orbital path around the Sun could actually be a trojan (shares a planet's orbit) asteroid, astronomers have found.
- Mars: Mars Mission From the U.A.E. Begins Orbit of Red Planet - U.A.E.'s probe arrives to Mars soon.
- Asteroid Belt: The Asteroid Belt: Wreckage of a Destroyed Planet or Something Else? - Samples of asteroids that have fallen to Earth reveals that the Asteroid Belt likely wasn't formed from planet that was smashed a part.
- Ceres and other Dwarf Planets:Top 10 Giant Facts About the Dwarf Planets - "Despite being the smallest of the five dwarf planets, Ceres was the first one discovered."
- Jupiter: Jupiter Is Bigger Than Some Stars, So Why Didn't We Get a Second Sun? - Jupiter and Sun have a lot in common, so how did Jupiter end up not being a planet?
- Saturn: Saturn's moon Titan: Largest sea is 1,000-feet deep - "Far below the gaseous atmospheric shroud on Saturn's largest moon, Titan, lies Kraken Mare, a sea of liquid methane. Cornell University astronomers have estimated that sea to be at least 1,000-feet deep near its center -- enough room for a potential robotic submarine to explore."
- Uranus: 35 Years Ago: Voyager 2 Explores Uranus - 35 years ago, Uranus was examined by Voyager's 11 instruments.
- Neptune: Next-generation planetary missions could hunt for gravitational waves, say astronomers - "Spacecraft heading to Uranus and Neptune in the next decade could be used to investigate gravitational waves as they venture into the outer Solar System."
- Pluto: Pluto's atmosphere gets its blue haze from icy organic compounds, study suggests - "The haze shrouding Pluto might be made up of ice crystals possessing cyanide hearts, a new study finds."
- Quaoar: How 50000 Quaoar changed the way we look at our solar system - "The ball-shaped planetoid, approximately half the size of Pluto, is the largest object found in the solar system since Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto in 1930."
- "FarFarOut": Astronomers Just Confirmed The Most Distant Known Object in The Solar System - "The most distant known object in the Solar System is now confirmed. FarFarOut, a large chunk of rock found in 2018 at a whopping distance of around 132 astronomical units from the Sun, has been studied and characterised, and we now know a lot more about it, and its orbit."
Wednesday, May 27, 2020
A missed call in a Baseball game that didn't matter (but might've if things where different)
Though the fielding of the ball was incorrectly ruled a catch by the Home Ump, it's the pitcher who fielded the ball. The pitcher's next action would've been to throw the runner out at First, which should've been the real end of the play. Now, there's a slight chance the throw to First would've been screwed up, so that is why the play shouldn't have been stopped. However, most probably the result of letting the play continue vs ending the play with a catch call wouldn't have changed the outcome of the play in this case. The runner would still be out and the inning would still have be ended. Now, if other base runners where present, then this missed call would've been more consequential because this bad call would've stopped base running and ended the inning. At that point, maybe this bad call would've been more memorable. But even in this case, it's the last out of the inning. The batter would've still likely have been thrown out at First. The end of the inning would've still happened right then and there. Austin Barnes wasn't robbed a base hit by the bad call.
There is one chance of Barnes getting on base in this scenario if it weren't for the bad call. Had the Ump not ruled the catch and ended play, the pitcher may have thought he had a proper catch and failed to throw the ball to First, giving Barnes a chance to make it safely to First. However, it can be argued that this would've been an Error by Pivette, still not a base hit for Barnes.
Tuesday, October 29, 2019
Thursday, July 04, 2019
Ironical is a real word! Didn't know that? Yeah, you aren't alone.
ironic
- using words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning; containing or exemplifying irony
- of, relating to, or tending to use irony or mockery; ironical
- coincidental; unexpected
ironical
adjective; first recorded in 1570's
- pertaining to, of the nature of, exhibiting, or characterized by irony or mockery
- using or prone to irony
Monday, January 28, 2019
Be like Jay?
THE BLUE JAY.
Something glorious, something gay,
Flits and flashes this-a-way!
’Thwart the hemlock’s dusky shade,
Rich in color full displayed,
Swiftly vivid as a flame—
Blue as heaven and white as snow—
Doth this lovely creature go.
What may be his dainty name?
“Only this”—the people say—
“Saucy, chattering, scolding Jay!”
-uncredited c.1897
Friday, February 23, 2018
Thursday, September 07, 2017
Words to annoy pedants with inconcise English
There are many ways English doesn't follow precise scientific style definitions. Some English-speakers are annoyed by some of the inconsistencies and disorder of English words. There are even some who take their annoyance out on others, just because others don't see a problem. In this, there is movement that tries to bring hierarchical order to English. When people defy this attempt for order, they can find themselves being attacked for their word choices.
I've talked about the phrase begs the question in a previous article. Use of this phrase will trigger attacks by pedants. There are specific words that elicit similar literary venom. At the top of the list is ironical.
Ironical irony
There are many people that sincerely believe ironical is not a word, and that only ironic should be used in cases where irony is an adjective. They will actually make fun of people who use the word ironical correctly. I've used the term myself in an ironic sense, only to trigger people who don't understand the irony of being opposed to the use of the word ironical, and the double-irony that ironical is actually a real word, and the triple-irony that I used the word to make fun of something else (namely, being pedantic).There was an episode on Seinfeld, where the character Seinfeld confidently declares there is no such word ironical. I don't know if this started the hatred of the word, but it certainly popularized that hatred.
Another ironic fact about ironical is that it actually has a more concise definition than ironic. Ironic has three distinct definitions, where ironical has two related definitions.
The word irony itself is also the subject to derision. The definition of irony includes something being incongruous. Yet, using irony in this manner can trigger pendants into criticizing you.
Number game
Another example of people trying to bring order to disorder of the English language lies in the alternative terms for numbers. Namely, couple, few, dozen, etc. But, that's not good enough for some. In some schools, kids are taught that there is a concise progression to these terms, where couple = 2, several = 3 and few = 4.If you look up several in the dictionary, you'll find a variety of definitions that can vary between dictionaries. Some dictionaries say that several means "more than 2 or 3", while others say it means "more than a few". However, in all cases, several represents an "indefinitely small number".
If you look up few in the dictionary, you'll find that few doesn't actually represent any particular number at all in most definitions. It doesn't mean "3 or 4" or just "4". It simply means an "indefinitely small number", similar to several.
I've even heard some claim that the word some has a defined number of 2 or more, when in fact, some can refer to any number, large or small, including 1 or 1,000,000.
Orientation
Another word I've seen trigger people is orientate. Orientate and orient both mean the same thing as verbs in most cases. But, orient is also a noun. Some people prefer to say orientate to identify the word as a verb since orientate has no noun meaning. In other words, it's actually more concise to use the word orientate when talking about taking an action that will change the orientation of a thing.Inflamed much?
Is it wrong to use the word inflammable when flammable means exactly the same thing? Well, they both have the same definition, but for different reasons. Root word for flammable is flame. Flame is a noun. However, inflame is the root word of inflammable. Inflame is a verb. And, inflammation is a noun with a completely different meaning than flame. The word flammation is obsolete. It meant to cause something to be set on fire. What's the other word for that? Oh, that's right, inflame. So, technically, flammable should be the word we stop using if we were to choose between it and inflammable. I wonder who would be inflamed by that?What are some other words that bug someone you know?
Tuesday, August 22, 2017
Yes, you do weigh less at the Equator, and here's roughly how much
The Earth spins one full rotation in a period just under 24 hours (kinda). At a spot that is one inch from the North (or South) Pole, the speed of the ground as it rotates around the axis is literally just over 1/4in per hour. By comparison, a common snail can slither 1837in per hour. However, at the Equator, the speed of the ground as it rotates around the axis is a whopping 1,036 MPH! This is faster than the Speed of Sound (761.2 MPH). Thankfully, the laws of nature do a great job of making sure we do not notice such things as we walk about in your daily lives.
Even still, that is fast enough to notice the effect of the centrifugal force of Earth's spin on your weight. Basically, you weigh less at the Equator than you do at the North Pole. Your mass doesn't change, of course. It's just that the pull of Earth's gravity is slightly mitigated by it's rotation about its axis.
That said, there are many factors that affect the local gravity. The problem is that gravity itself is generally measured in terms that are meaningless to everyday life. So, when an online local gravity calculator tells you that your local gravity in meters per seconds squared, that isn't all that helpful in finding out how much more or less you'll weight somewhere else.
I've created a simplified calculator as a spreadsheet . It will tell you how much you'll weigh at any latitude based on your current weight at your current latitude. The calculations on the spreadsheet are rough. They do not take into account many factors that might affect your weight, nor are they precise enough for serious scientific studies. However, they are close enough to satisfy whatever curiosity you might have. As such, use the spreadsheet for entertainment purposes only, and have fun seeing how much less you'll weight at particular latitudes!
Wednesday, March 08, 2017
Is it really Frankenstein's Monster?
Without much context, a quick search on Google ngram reveals that the term "Frankenstein's Monster" does indeed show up in literature. However, going back to 1800 finds that the term really didn't get started until well after 1870. Beyond that, the term wasn't really in use until the 1960's. Just for reference, the Frankenstein book was originally published in 1818.
Beyond that, is the distinction between the mad scientist and his monster really all that important, namewise? If we count the monster as the scientist's child in a manner of speaking, the monster would carry the scientist's surname anyway. Both the monster and the scientist carry the name "Frankenstein". Maybe instead of trying to impose a ill-accepted term like "Frankenstein's Monster", we simply use the term "Dr. Frankenstein" for the mad scientist and "Frankenstein" for the monster.
Monday, January 30, 2017
Maybe we are the first
A basic premise is that life requires stars for two different purposes. The study states,
Life requires stars for two reasons. Stars are needed to produce the heavy elements (carbon, oxygen and so on, up to iron) out of which rocky planets and the molecules of life are made. Stars also provide a heat source for powering the chemistry of life on the surface of their planets.[001]This means that rogue planets aren't likely to spark or support life. This also means that Population III and most Population II stars systems will not have life either, because they are unlikely to have the elements necessary to form terrestrial planets. That pretty much leaves us with Population I stars.
Rogue planet, artist concept |
Population III or II stars, artist concept |
- Population III stars are the stars that likely formed right after the Big Bang. They have not been directly observed, so their existed is estimated. They were made up of mostly Hydrogen and Helium. As such, they are unlikely to have any planets.
- Population II stars are stars that are still made up of mostly Hydrogen and Helium, but have higher concentrations of elements such as Oxygen, Silicon, Neon, etc. Typically, such star systems are still unlikely to contain terrestrial planets. Many Population II stars still exist in our galaxy, though in regions without access to many heavier elements.
- Population I stars are stars that are yet again still made up of mostly Hydrogen and Helium, but have much higher concentrations of the more stable element Iron and other heavy elements. Population I star systems are much more likely to contain terrestrial planets. The Sun (Sol) is a Population I star.
Life is very unlikely to have occurred until Population I stars formed and supported terrestrial planets. Terrestrial planets in the Goldilocks Zone around their star then had to have the necessary events and composition to allow for the spark of life to occur, and subsequently support life until species of higher intelligence evolve.
Is Earth ahead of the curve for the development of life?
The previously mentioned study suggests that Earth may have developed life to the human-level a bit earlier than average. The study concludes that, "life around low mass stars in the distant future is much more likely than terrestrial life around the Sun today."[001] Life throughout the galaxy may be far more common billions of years from now than it is today. That also means that there may not be any/many other alien species with which we can contact and interact right now. The study puts our odds at 0.1%.[001]This could explain why we've not seen evidence of extraterrestrial intelligent life in our galaxy. Maybe we are among the very first. Others like us are so rare, we will not be able to contact each other.
Maybe a billion years from now, a future intelligent species will evolve on some future (yet to exist) world, and when they point radio telescopes into their night sky, they receive a song of hundreds of thousands radio signals from just as many other civilizations. Maybe, if our species is able to continue evolving, our long-from-now-posterity becomes the evil invaders of other worlds, rather than our world being the one constantly invaded, as Hollywood would have us imagine. Maybe we are the monsters in waiting.
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- Limited lifespan of Habitable Zones around other stars [and a loosely held secret finally revealed about me]
- Small stars may have stable Habitable Zones, but habitable planets might not be common there
- Habitable Planets around White Dwarfs
- Habitable Worlds Around Binary Star Systems might not match Sci-fi
- How many Earth-like planets are orbiting Sun-like stars?
- First round of life in the Universe might have been possible extremely early
- Factors a planet needs for suitability of life; perhaps
- "Goldilocks zone of metallicity" on a galactic scale
- Maybe we are the first
Monday, January 23, 2017
"Goldilocks zone of metallicity" on a galactic scale
Stars in the Galactic Center are so concentrated that they typically are only a few light weeks away from each other. In contrast, our local neighborhood of stars are separated from one another by light years. If we found ourselves on a planet near the Galactic Center, our nighttime sky would light up in a blazing display every night, filled with stars as bright as the planet Venus looks to us.[001]However, would there be a habitable planet from which to see this sight? Is it possible to have life-supporting planets near the Galaxy's center?
The concept of Habitable Zones around stars has been studied for a couple of decades. Life similar to ours can only exist on planets that are a certain distance from their sun. This is due to the amount of energy from the sun that is received by the planet. Too much energy, the planet is too hot. Too little energy, the planet is too cold, hence the Goldilocks reference.
There's another type of Habitable Zone at the galactic scale which uses a somewhat different set of criteria. Solar systems which have planets that can support life must themselves be made from material that has a lot of elements that are heavier than Helium. In astronomy, elements heavier than Helium are often referred to as metals. Metal content of a star is called its metallicity. The danger is that is if a solar system is made from material that is too rich in metallicity, Earth-sized planets may not be able to exist due to the likelihood of much larger (heavier) worlds displacing those Earth-size planets. Hence, "Goldilock zone of metallicity" is the idea that certain regions of a galaxy may be too metal-rich and other regions may be metal-poor in order to allow for the presence of Earth-like worlds.[002]
It's not just the metals
Metallicity is not the only factor, however.Early intense star formation toward the inner Galaxy provided the heavy elements necessary for life, but the supernova frequency remained dangerously high there for several billion years.[002]If a solar system is too close to the galactic core, the intense supernova frequency in a young galaxy might've keep many worlds from supporting life. This is because they would have experienced numerous blast waves, cosmic rays, gamma rays and x-rays that are fatal to lifeforms.[002] As the collective of solar systems age and die, they would have contributed to increasing metallicity. This means, the right conditions for life on Earth-like planets may have never happened near the galactic core. Stars that are too close to the galactic core never had and never will have the right conditions to support Earth-like worlds with Earth-like life.
Where can solar systems with habitable planets reside within the Milky Way? According to the study The Galactic Habitable Zone and the Age Distribution of Complex Life in the Milky Way, the inner bulge component, diffuse halo component, and a thick disk component of our Milky Way Galaxy would not likely allow for Earth-size planets to exist within the right timeframe.[002] So, the Habitable Zone of our Milky Way Galaxy isn't even really based on distance from the galactic core. It's a somewhat washer-shape region in between all the places that Earth-sized planets cannot exist within solar systems.
Current Habitable Zone of Milky Way
Given all of these factors, the authors of the study The Galactic Habitable Zone and the Age Distribution of Complex Life in the Milky Way state,We identified the Galactic habitable zone (GHZ) as an annular region between 7 and 9 kiloparsecs from the Galactic center that widens with time and is composed of stars that formed between 8 and 4 billion years ago.[002]
Primary reference:
C. H. Lineweaver,Y. Fenner, B. K. Gibson, Science 303:59–62, DOI: 10.1126/science.1092322, The galactic habitable zone and the age distribution of complex life in the Milky Way
Response:
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- Limited lifespan of Habitable Zones around other stars [and a loosely held secret finally revealed about me]
- Small stars may have stable Habitable Zones, but habitable planets might not be common there
- Habitable Planets around White Dwarfs
- Habitable Worlds Around Binary Star Systems might not match Sci-fi
- How many Earth-like planets are orbiting Sun-like stars?
- First round of life in the Universe might have been possible extremely early
- Factors a planet needs for suitability of life; perhaps
- "Goldilocks zone of metallicity" on a galactic scale
- Maybe we are the first