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Super-Earths

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

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A Higher Gravity Means Stronger Lands

The moon has been slowing our day length a little each year for eons. Back in the day, it was 12 hours long and had much stronger storms. Thinner air itself makes for stronger erosion. Every volcanic eruption needs to fight that much harder to get high land. It's ginen that ange of earth like planets, where you mightne t be makinukin the ocean floor to get yourself some new land or building ponton continents.

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