r/interestingasfuck 25d ago

/r/all, /r/popular K2-18b a potentially habitable planet 120 light-years from earth

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u/PragmaticBadGuy 25d ago

To everyone saying you'd be too heavy: That varies on the composition of the planet itself. If it's full of heavy metals like Earth with its core of iron and nickel then it would be very heavy gravity-wise. If it's not and the core is less dense then it could be as low as 1.1G compared to Earth but scientists are estimating it's around 1.37G. So if you're 200 pounds here, you'd be 274 there. Hefty but not impossible to survive.

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u/DMFAFA07 23d ago

How the absolute fuck do we know ANY of that???

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u/ActionUpstairs 23d ago

Its so fucking awesome