Super-Earths!
Posted by Scott on June 17, 2008
I just read this article about discovering new planets.
I feel like I am living in a cartoon or something. Super-Earths? I do not know much about astronomy, except for the astronomy course I took in high school in which I got something like 103% (that was only because if you got a question wrong on a test you were to be ridiculed for weeks). Still, are astronomers really that lazy? One thing I get confused about is what this does for us. I mean we are not going to be able to go there any time soon or ever. It seems as if the air pressure or other scientific stuff will simply not allow our bodies to go certain places. That is what is so frustrating about these things! Awesome, Super-Earths! Now what?
My favorite part of the article, other than the name, had to be the duration of these planets orbits. The longest orbit is 20 days. So, again I don’t know that much, but I take that as being seasons would occur in the span of 20 days. This would mean that in three weeks we would go from hot to cold and back to hot. Damn, that would be pretty cool. Talk about never getting bored. Retail stores would have to really get shipping of season related clothes really fast.
Back to the name though, I’m thinking that instead of Super-Earths we go with something like Mega-Earths. Super-Earth just sounds kind of weak and soft to me. But we could go places with Mega. The “Mega-Man” could do so many cool things like kill freaky ice flying creatures and take down the fire throwing boss. Don’t tell me you don’t remember that guy!
