by Omnitir » Wed 22 Aug 2007, 23:22:27
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Tyler_JC', 'W')hat if a race of aliens lives on a planet with two suns? (like many star systems in the galaxy)
The added bonus of two solar inputs could provide them with 24/7 access to abundant solar power.
They would be perfectly capable of running their electrical grid off of solar power.
We just get screwed on planet earth, being stuck with a mono-solar star system.
It is generally thought that any planet in a binary star system would have extremely irregular and volatile seasons, making the evolution of life and civilizations extremely difficult.
It doesn't matter that there are trillions of planets out there. The odds of just one forming all the necessary and precise conditions for an Earth-like world to exists are amazingly low. The odds of it happening more than once are preposterous.
There may be aliens, but they highly likely won't be anything like us. Despite what sci-fi has led us to believe, we are likely an amazing and rare fluke of the universe.
It would be a great shame to let such a rare thing die out.
"Mother Nature is a psychopathic bitch, and she is out to get you. You have to adapt, change or die." - Tihamer Toth-Fejel, nanotech researcher/engineer.