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Could we live on a brown dwarf?

• taf2 6y ago
  I imagine the gravity would be too strong?
  • throwaway316943 6y ago
    Perhaps a floating colony like those proposed for Venus? There might be a Goldilocks zone in the atmosphere. If not then there may still be a comfortable location in near orbit where the heat would be tolerable. It’s interesting to think of ways to overcome an extreme gravity environment though, perhaps suspension in a liquid would counteract some of the effects?
    • fhars 6y ago
      How would you float something in a hydrogen atmosphere?
      • rini17 6y ago
        Hot hydrogen would.
      • estebanisko 6y ago
        Not float, but you can keep aloft while spending minimal energy using https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_soaring https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_soaring Jupiter seems to have sufficiently dynamic atmosphere. Not sure about cold brown dwarfs...
      • hinkley 6y ago
        > Some of these weird worlds are even relatively close to Earth's temperature and could be cool enough to have water clouds in their atmospheres, according to the statement.