Well it's been .. awhile.
Yeah .. plans for scuppered. Went downhill and had to move another 250 miles yet again.
Then found out a health condition they sheet knew about is very deadly and they didn't tell me.
Yeah .. put myself and a lot of other people in danger and cost thousand upon thousands.
Yeah sounds like faked crazy shit? No.
It's been in one magazine called Love It which you can see the cover of and read about on my corruption blog if you look up a post titled 'The Fugliness' and there is one coming in less than two weeks. This next one will be the third publication in the mainstream media and there is more planned.
But while all that has and is going on I've not got to do very much in the way of astrophysics researching. Well .. I've done a bit.
But tonight I saw this one.
They are talking now about habitable exomoons in other star systems.
Star systems they said for a long time would not be host to any planets. Since a child I simply refused to believe this and hoped that one day in my lifetime I would be proved right.
Sometimes the maths just .. sort of appears to me, as strange as it sounds. Blew a fair few minds with that ability and other insight like abilities on my way to my computer science degree.
So .. let's have a little theory ..
I'll state that I think it would be rare for a star system to have as little as three planets. The lower the number the rarer it becomes.
At the other end I'm going to go with as many as a dozen. I might want to double that of they decide some kuiper belt objects, like Pluto, Seems Makemake and planet nine or ten of we ever find it, are reclassified as full on planets. Which they are.
Of course we're hunting for this elusive tenth planet but what's not to say they're are not more? We simply don't know. We have only our own solar system to go on and there are still things we haven't found.
So twelve full on planets could be the upper limit?
Other star systems might have more than ours and so might we had done. For instance or asteroid belt? A planet that failed to form or was destroyed? In other systems they might not have had this occur?
So .. exomoons?
What I found funny was someone stating there would not be that many because of the size they would need to be?
Umm .. have they read the same reports as me? Lol. They have found countless super Jupiters way bigger than our own red spotted giant. A great many it sounds like and closer to their star too. Even rocky planets way bigger than Earth have been discovered.
Yeah .. way bigger rocky planets and way bigger had giants means?! Way bigger bloody everything!
Way bigger than our moon and way bigger than Titan.
Here's some math insight and a theory ..
It's my belief that, upon thinking about these discoveries, that habitable moons may well outnumber habitable planets?!
You need the right body with a given zone and the planet needs to be just right as does a moon. But we all know moons vastly outnumber planets.
If it turns out that very large has giants are commonly found closer to their star and these have more moons than Jupiter and bigger moons than Jupiter then your talking about two, three and maybe even four moons in a star system that could be habitable?!
Yeah this would be pretty unique to have as many as four and would likely need two super Jupiters close enough to their star. Might require the right kind of star to meet these conditions too?
So you have a chance of two or more within a system.
I think with a planet being habitable it's more likely to be just one.
Even that which we are currently seeing is a tiny fraction and even once we've looked at all that we can see it will still be a tiny fraction.
The Milky Way Galaxy alone is a bloody big place and the University is so large it might as well be infinite.
Then there are other things we won't know once we've seen everything close by. Like ..
- How are star systems laid out as you get to the galactic core of Saggitarius A*?
- How about stars and their systems that roam intergalactic space?
- What about those on the outer edges?
- What about those in the spiral arms?
- What about those between the spiral arms?
- What about those in the bar?
Hmm are we supposed to have a bar? Can't remember, I think we did but maybe this was doubted at some point?
Well you see where I'm going?
- Star systems in gas clouds?
- Stars in nebulas?
The list just goes on and on of what we simply do not know.
They thought very few or no stars had planets and I didn't believe that.
That thought star systems all developed the same way and looked like ours, gas giants bring further out and I didn't believe that.
It's not a question of whether habitable worlds are out there and this goes for inhabited worlds too! The question is how far do we have to go to find them?
In our quadrant of the galaxy?
In our neighbourhood?
The other side of the galaxy?
Andromeda?
I just hope we start getting images of these exoplanets and their moons in my lifetime.
Admittedly that might not be very much time.
Our Galaxy Might Be Teeming With Habitable Exomoons http://flip.it/.6iVqP
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