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“Until we know more about this planet and the origin of life itself, any claim of certain habitation is idiotic and does not serve science,” said Dr. To clarify, he wanted canada goose outlet store near me others to know that he thinks just the claim is idiotic, not the discovery or the people involved.

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The quote was about habitability, the first criteria, not the other two. Nobody knows if there is life there. Nobody knows if the conditions are good enough for people to survive on it. What they said is that they know for sure it is a rocky planet with the right temperature range, which means there water on the surface. The tidally locked situation just makes it different than Earth, but in no way uninhabitable.

No way is it 100%. There are a number of things which have to be overcome. The canada goose outlet store uk atmosphere can be a hothouse CO_2 atmosphere. This planet could easily be a 300C autoclave envirnoment with maybe 100 torr of pressure. If the atmosphere started out with too littlepressure it could have been lost by now.

This is intriguing however, and there is a chance for life here. If this could be imaged and found to be a double planet with a quick orbital rotation in a tidal lock I would feel even much better. Much more data is needed, including on the chemistry of the atmosphere and if possible a measurement of its blackbody radiation temperature.

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