Space Trekkers Live in Binary Planetary Systems
July 05, 2009
For years I’ve hypothesized that binary planetary systems
exist, and that these are the places to go looking for space-faring civilizations. By binary planetary system I mean a pair of gravitationally
bound stars, each with its own independent family of worlds.
There could be habitable planets around each star in the binary system, if the stars are far enough apart. If technological civilizations independently evolve around both stars, they could actually travel across space and visit each other. This would be a powerful motivation to build the fusion-powered rockets needed to travel back and forth within a reasonable amount of time.
Astronomers have now found such as system, but we’ll have to wait another 4 billion years before an alien civilization manifests itself. Why? Because the double star is just a few millions of years old, and if Earth is any example, it takes a long time to evolve intelligent beings.





















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