Comments on: The Old Ones https://briankoberlein.com/2016/07/28/the-old-ones/ Brian Koberlein Tue, 19 Feb 2019 13:26:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.0.3 By: Jason Leger https://briankoberlein.com/2016/07/28/the-old-ones/#comment-4487 Fri, 26 Aug 2016 15:09:45 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=6162#comment-4487 Cool concept, would one assume this life may not have a planet? But was scattered and developed as conditions permitted. Big Bang seeded the Universe.. All kinds of possibilities.

]]> By: Tino Koschinski https://briankoberlein.com/2016/07/28/the-old-ones/#comment-4366 Sun, 31 Jul 2016 22:04:49 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=6162#comment-4366 Considering the time frame of 7 million years – we’re talking about single cell organism at best I reckon. But that would be a sensation already.

]]> By: Artem Lodygin https://briankoberlein.com/2016/07/28/the-old-ones/#comment-4358 Sat, 30 Jul 2016 18:36:07 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=6162#comment-4358 Wider, but not that much. At lower pressures liquid water range is even narrower than at 1 atm. Extremely high pressures may give you liquid water at up to 674K, but that doesn’t seem very life-friendly. Freezing point never goes far from 273K.

]]> By: Jan David Fisher https://briankoberlein.com/2016/07/28/the-old-ones/#comment-4350 Fri, 29 Jul 2016 17:53:25 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=6162#comment-4350 We have fish in the Arctic and Antarctic oceans that can survive at 270K. Their blood contains an organic antifreeze. Assuming some form of intelligent life could evolve in that time, it makes for interesting SF!

]]> By: Jean Tate https://briankoberlein.com/2016/07/28/the-old-ones/#comment-4341 Thu, 28 Jul 2016 14:51:28 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=6162#comment-4341 Interesting set of ideas.

Minor quibble: 273-373K is liquid water only for 1 atm pressure, and only pure water; change the allowed pressure, add “impurities”, and the “liquid water” range is much wider than 273-373. And the habitable epoch of the early universe was thus likely considerably more than ~7 million years’ long! 🙂

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