{"id":6133,"date":"2011-04-11T19:43:01","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T23:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbachnet.wwwmi3-ss40.a2hosted.com\/?p=6133"},"modified":"2022-12-30T16:02:41","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T21:02:41","slug":"planet-earth-valued-at-4800-trillion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/planet-earth-valued-at-4800-trillion\/","title":{"rendered":"Earth Worth $4,800 Trillion"},"content":{"rendered":"

S<\/a>\"Earth<\/a>ome people believe – everything in this world has a price<\/strong>. Now the world has a price as well. Earth\u00a0is worth $4,800 trillion<\/strong> according to UC-Santa Cruz<\/a> Astrophysicist Greg Laughlin. Professor Laughlin developed the value for NASA<\/a> <\/strong>to evaluate the discoveries made by NASA\u2019s planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft<\/a>. He came up with the figure by calculating the sum of the planet\u2019s age, size, temperature, mass and other vital statistics.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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What planets are worth studying<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n

Professor Laughlin told<\/a> the UK’s Daily Mail<\/em><\/a> , \u201cI\u2019ve just always thought that the concept of an \u2018Earth-like planet in the habitable zone\u2019 was pretty vaguely defined,\u00a0and I wanted a metric that I could plug a planet into to see whether its value was high enough to warrant media hype<\/em>.\u201d The professor’s equation shows whether planets are worth studying, anything worth less than $97 million just isn\u2019t worth the hassle<\/strong>. The astrophysicist told the Daily Mail<\/em>, “The formula makes you realize just how precious Earth is and I hope it will help us as a society safeguard what we have.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Earth’s competition<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

There are about 1,235 known similar planets in the universe. Most planets weren\u2019t given a high price tag because of their inhospitable climates. The Daily Mail <\/em>says\u00a0Mars is worth only\u00a0$16,361<\/strong> and\u00a0Venus is worth less than a penny<\/strong>. Prior to Dr. Laughlin’s work, the most Earth-like world known to scientists, was the exoplanet<\/a> Gilese 581 c<\/a>. However, the professor’s equation valued it at just $160.<\/p>\n

The next Earth-ly object, KOI 326.01<\/strong><\/a> is worth\u00a0$223,099.93<\/strong> (KOI stands for “Kepler Object of Interest”).\u00a0\u201cThis is just a way for me to be able to quantify how excited I should be about any particular planet,<\/em>\u201d he told<\/a> TechEye<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

rb-<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

I wonder if the professor discounted the value of planet Earth as\u00a0damaged goods as British Petroleum destroys the Gulf of Mexico and nuclear reactors melt-down in Japan, etc..<\/em><\/p>\n

What do you think?<\/strong><\/p>\n

How do you value planet Earth?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Ralph Bach<\/a>\u00a0has been in IT long enough to know better and has blogged from his\u00a0Bach Seat<\/a>\u00a0about IT, careers and anything else that catches his attention since 2005. You can follow him at\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>,\u00a0Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Twitter<\/a>. Email the Bach Seat\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Earth is worth $4,800 trillion according to NASA based on the sum of the planet\u2019s age, size, temperature, mass and other vital statistics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[3045,195,378,14,3327,242,1207],"class_list":["post-6133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green","tag-3045","tag-bp","tag-earth","tag-green","tag-money","tag-nasa","tag-space"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t