Hinky Habitable Planets
Okay, has anyone else noticed that some of the values for 'Earth-like' planets are rather, well... hinky? I don't believe I've noticed anything on the forums yet about this, so I want to make sure it's brought up. Perhaps Dr. Wookie or somebody else can set me straight if I'm in error, but some of these planets that are supposed to be habitable by people have pretty extreme characteristics. Some seem just plain ridiculous.
For instance, one 'habitable' planet had an atmosphere that was something like 95% oxygen. Isn't oxygen far too volatile to make up that much of an atmosphere, at least of a habitable world? I've seen what seem like high percentages with other 'Earth-like' worlds, but that one stood out, obviously.
Also, a number of them are listed as being 'tidally locked', which, if you know anything about what that means, would account for a pretty extreme atmosphere. It seems unlikely that a tidally locked planet would have anything approaching an 'Earth-like' atmosphere. I could see a habitable world being tidally locked once in a blue moon, as an outlier, but I've seen multiple habitable worlds just in the Beta 2 'capsule' that are listed as tidally locked. It just seems... really unlikely, frankly.
Has anyone else noticed this? I really don't think I'm being nit-picky here. As a science dork, it really is bothersome...
Okay, has anyone else noticed that some of the values for 'Earth-like' planets are rather, well... hinky? I don't believe I've noticed anything on the forums yet about this, so I want to make sure it's brought up. Perhaps Dr. Wookie or somebody else can set me straight if I'm in error, but some of these planets that are supposed to be habitable by people have pretty extreme characteristics. Some seem just plain ridiculous.
For instance, one 'habitable' planet had an atmosphere that was something like 95% oxygen. Isn't oxygen far too volatile to make up that much of an atmosphere, at least of a habitable world? I've seen what seem like high percentages with other 'Earth-like' worlds, but that one stood out, obviously.
Also, a number of them are listed as being 'tidally locked', which, if you know anything about what that means, would account for a pretty extreme atmosphere. It seems unlikely that a tidally locked planet would have anything approaching an 'Earth-like' atmosphere. I could see a habitable world being tidally locked once in a blue moon, as an outlier, but I've seen multiple habitable worlds just in the Beta 2 'capsule' that are listed as tidally locked. It just seems... really unlikely, frankly.
Has anyone else noticed this? I really don't think I'm being nit-picky here. As a science dork, it really is bothersome...
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