Re: Plate tectonics and super-Earths

In article <4788914f$0$85793$e4fe514c@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
mcv  <mcvmcv@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>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.

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