Water found on a potentially life-friendly alien planet

Re:Water found on a potentially life-friendly alien planet by tunesmith on Thursday September 12, 2019 @01:11AM (#20948211)

I took it as 1g of acceleration. I don't know. Wouldn't plain old 1g mean no acceleration at all?

Edit: Oh... I guess not. :) I got confused with the extra g's we'd need to escape earth, but that's so short-term that it can be ignored. Yeah, I think 1g would be perfect.

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Re:Water found on a potentially life-friendly alien planet by quickthrower2 on Thursday September 12, 2019 @06:33AM (#20949915)

When you sit in a car and it accelerates forward you can feel your back being pushed into the seat. When you lie in bed gravity will also push you into the bed. In both cases it's a force acting on your body. So being pushed in space in a ship accelerating at 1g will feel like normal gravity with the 'ground' being the back of the ship.

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