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[lojban] Re: Assistance requested,

It may have only 19.5 % O2, however that is the most chemically active portion of the atmosphere and if most life in the Universe is oxygen breathing it is an extremely imprtant data point. You might be right about being middle gravity. Of all the rocky worlds in our solar system it does have the higest gravity and if you include all the rocky moons of the gas giants (and our moon as well) it comes out to a much larger number of rocky bodies.

Terry


-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com>
To: lojban-list@lojban.org
Sent: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 8:52 am
Subject: [lojban] Re: Assistance requested,



On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 5:56 PM, <tsofian@aol.com> wrote:
Things went very wrong, which is outside the range of this discussion. However the way the aliens view planets isn't. One thing I have noticed about Lojban is the manner in which it can accumulate factors into a word or phrase. The aliens would probably describe Earth as "rocky cored high gravity planet with hydroshere and oxygen atmosphere in stellar radius for water to be liquid"

  Why "oxygen atmosphere"?  It's only 1/5 oxygen.  3/4 of it is nitrogen. =2 0As for "high gravity" -- as far as planets go, it's only 4th out of 8 in our solar system (And only Mercury and Mars are significantly less).  Assuming that planetary distribution is similar everywhere in the universe, I would think "middle gravity" would be more accurate.

                        --gejyspa