3 de dezembro de 2009

Uma outra estratégia "henriquina", e mais sobre outras "Terras"

The Space Review: First stop for Flexible Path?: "[...] the White House and NASA are pondering the future of human space flight for the United States, one strategy for doing it that was proposed by that committee has garnered a lot of attention. The flexible path—or flexpath strategy, as it is more compactly known—is less a detailed plan and more a guiding philosophy for future work. Guided by this philosophy, humans would visit sites never visited before and extend our knowledge of how to operate in space, while traveling greater and greater distances from Earth, as opposed to efforts directed at a single solar system body, such as the Moon or Mars."

Superior Super Earths | Physorg.com
Super Earths are named for their size, but these planets - which range from about 2 to 10 Earth masses - could be superior to the Earth when it comes to sustaining life. They could also provide an answer to the ‘Fermi Paradox’: Why haven’t we been visited by aliens? 

Neste blogue, há muito mais sobre isto (pesquisar sob "henriquina", "paradoxo de fermi", etc.). 

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