Re: Plate tectonics and super-Earths

Allen Thomson <thomsona@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
> http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/press/2008/pr200802.html
> 
> "The landscape would be familiar. A super-Earth would feel very much
> like home," said Sasselov.

It might *look* like home, but with three times the surface gravity,
it most definitely wouldn't *feel* like home. It would feel like you're
carrying a load of 150 kg.


mcv.
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