Interesting?

[Outspoken]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20021128/sc_nm/space_planets_dc_1

 

[HellboundLiberal]

using high-powered supercomputer calculations to show these gassy giants could form in hundreds of years

Note my emphasis on "gassy giants". The article is NOT talking about smaller planets made out of solid rock.

Just because clouds form and dissappear in a matter of a short time does not mean that dirt does as well. You're comparing apples to oranges.

 

[Outspoken]

"The article is NOT talking about smaller planets made out of solid rock. "

I agree. So, do we have any of those in our solar system?

 

[lithium.]

Originally posted by Outspoken
"The article is NOT talking about smaller planets made out of solid rock. "

I agree. So, do we have any of those in our solar system?

I think he means planets like earth. Gas planets can form quick cause they don't have all the stuff a planet like ours has (I think). Earth, Mars, and planets like them will always take billions of years to form.

 

[HellboundLiberal]

I think he means planets like earth. Gas planets can form quick cause they don't have all the stuff a planet like ours has (I think). Earth, Mars, and planets like them will always take billions of years to form.

You are correct. That is what I tried to convey.

 

[Outspoken]

YOu didn't answer my question. Do we have any "gassy giants" in our solar system?

 

[lithium.]

Originally posted by Outspoken
YOu didn't answer my question. Do we have any "gassy giants" in our solar system?

If you mean planets made of gas then yes.

Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.

 

[Outspoken]

"If you mean planets made of gas then yes. "

Now be careful, read the article and then come back to me with your answer. If its still yes then we can talk.

 

[lithium.]

I have already read the story on another site. And they didn't use gassy planets.

Most scientists believe that giant planets like Jupiter take more than a million years to form, but University of Washington astrophysicist Tom Quinn says it may happen in as little as a few hundred years.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/97736_astro29.shtml

Astronomers say giant gas planets the size of Jupiter may form in as little as a few hundred years, not millions as once thought.

http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2002/11/28/gas_planets021128

An accepted assumption in astrophysics holds that it takes more than 1 million years for gas giant planets such as Jupiter and Saturn to form from the cosmic debris circling a young star. But new research suggests such planets form in a dramatically shorter period, as little as a few hundred years.

Giant gas planets like Jupiter probably form in hundreds of years, not millions of years as had been commonly thought, according to a new report.

http://asia.cnn.com/2002/TECH/space/11/28/fast.planets/


see we have gas planets, and they are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.

 

[Outspoken]

"see we have gas planets, and they are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune."

Do you think life on earth could exsist without these planets in our solar system?

 

[lithium.]

Originally posted by Outspoken
"see we have gas planets, and they are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune."

Do you think life on earth could exsist without these planets in our solar system?

yep. sense you brought up life nasa thinks and me to that there could be life on one of the moons of Jupiter.

 

[Outspoken]

"yep."

So based on this then we might conclude that our solar system isn't billons of years old since "gassy giants" for rather fast, correct?

 

[lithium.]

lol no... it still takes billions of years for planets like earth, and mars to form. Gas planets are not made out of the same stuff Earth, and Mar, and other planets like them are made with.

 

[Outspoken]

"it still takes billions of years for planets like earth, and mars to form. Gas planets are not made out of the same stuff Earth, and Mar, and other planets like them are made with."

Yes, but in order for life to form on the earth, by present models, it had to be at a exact position in relation to the sun, thus those bodies might have effected that, and their absence would have too, correct?

 

[lithium.]

nevermind.

 

[lithium.]

I got a little big off topic but it doesn't change the age of the solar system at all, or how life got on earth. But sense I wasn't there god might have put all the planets in order then went to every star and did the same thing to all the stars with planets, and did the same to all the galaxies. And removed the water from mars, and etc...

But who knows right.

 

[Outspoken]

"how life got on earth."

Why not. Follow back through our posts, it does seem to effect how life got here on earth.

 

[lithium.]

Why not. Follow back through our posts, it does seem to effect how life got here on earth.

Where? the gas planets might have helped the planets get in the right orbit but the moon, and sun, and meteors had a lot to do with life on earth.

 

[Outspoken]

"the gas planets might have helped the planets get in the right orbit but the moon, and sun, and meteors had a lot to do with life on earth."

Yup, they did help get the planets into the right orbit to make life possible, thus life might not have been here for as long as people think, correct?

 

[lithium.]

Originally posted by Outspoken
"the gas planets might have helped the planets get in the right orbit but the moon, and sun, and meteors had a lot to do with life on earth."

Yup, they did help get the planets into the right orbit to make life possible, thus life might not have been here for as long as people think, correct?

No it doesn't change anything. If it only takes 200 or so years for them to be made then it doesn't change anything. They could have been forming before earth was even being made. Right now it doesn't change anything.