Weird Exoplanet Orbits Could Screw Up Alien Life 161
astroengine writes "Life is good in the Solar System. We have Jupiter to thank for that. However, if the gas giant's orbit were a little more elliptical, there's every chance that Earth would become rather uncomfortable very quickly. Researchers looking at the zoo of exoplanets orbiting distant stars have simulated several scenarios of differing exoplanet orbits and find that many don't resemble our cozy Solar System. In fact, weird exoplanet orbits may be the deciding factor as to whether extraterrestrial life can form or not."
Save the aliens! (Score:5, Funny)
The aliens of our galaxy have had a hard life. Please send donations to the buy-a-Jupiter-for-the-aliens fund. Your help is greatly appreciated.
Weird Exoplanets (Score:5, Funny)
"Captain. The orbit in this exoplanet is a bit weird. Summer might get be a bit warm"
"Let's surf in the beach, warm? Or Today we all stay in the fridge, warm."
"Sir, it'll be Hold your rifle with extended arms so the metal drops don't make holes in your boots, warm."
Re:Life adapts (Score:5, Funny)
If you lived on tropical shore where the climate was practically unchanging from day to day throughout the year, it would probably be hard to imagine life could exist in Canada.
Have you been in Canada? It's pretty hard to imagine life can exist there, wherever you're from.
I'm pretty sure they all migrated to some warmer place as soon as I left the country, only to return and scare the next tourists with stories about actually living there.
Re:Save the aliens! (Score:2, Funny)
Sounds like another Gleisian subspace mail scam to me. Let me guess, your name is 'Reverend' Tsmünqtll e'Eiïgåk, and you represent the Space Pope and all the starving spawnlings left over from the Second Great Tri-Moon Conflict.
Re:Weird Exoplanets (Score:3, Funny)
Captain: Ok, let's beam down. I want the entire senior staff to join the party along with Ensign Smith [wikipedia.org].
Ensign Smith: Fuck.
Re:Hmmm, (Score:3, Funny)
canadians live underground in the winter (Score:4, Funny)
seriously
in toronto and montreal, they started building malls underground, and linking them up, so now you can practically roam the entire downtowns of these cities, all underground
in the distant future, us heroic stoic freedom fighting american movie hero archetypes will have to face invasions of the evolutionary future: the fearsome greater northern Canadian Humanoid Underground Dwellers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.H.U.D [wikipedia.org].
The Blame Game (Score:4, Funny)
Re:"Weird"? (Score:5, Funny)
Ah! That would explain why they drink copious amounts of rum; to keep the land "unsteady".
Re:"Weird"? (Score:5, Funny)
I wonder if there's a way to handle creatures like that from far away? Like, in orbit. You know, just to be sure.
Re:Life adapts (Score:4, Funny)
Wait, there's life in Canada?
Re:"Weird"? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Save the aliens! (Score:1, Funny)
That's probably Uranus leaking gas....
Re:Save the aliens! (Score:3, Funny)
Dear friends,
The aliens of our galaxy have had a hard life. Please send donations to the buy-a-Jupiter-for-the-aliens fund. Your help is greatly appreciated.
I hope everybody understands the gravity of the situation.