Different Situation for life.

 So when someone thinks of a planet most people would think of the kinds of planets in our own solar system but in reality there are so many different kinds of planets and not only that but even some of the planets in our own solar system are not what they seem. For example, Mercury seems like a normal planet yeah? Well the thing is that even though it is only a little larger than the moon it has more than twice the  gravity of the moon.

This means that the components of mercury are not what they seem. Our moon is made up things you would assume that it has, it is like a small planet, it has a molten core, a mantel and a crust, this is the same as our earth only on a much larger scale. Mercury on the other hand has such a huge gravity and yet is so small which can only mean on thing, it has to be dense. And what is the most dense part of a planet? The core, which for rocky planets like ours and Mercury is made out of iron. If Mercury is just a core that means at some point it used to be a much larger planet. Something on the same size as earth or Venus. There are is only one thing that comes to mind that could do something like rip off something like 60% of a planet, and that is another planet.
But that goes into a different subject i might talk about later (wandering planets) for now i am going to talk about my favorite kind of exo-planet that we know can exist.
Binary planet systems. This is where there are two planets orbit each other and are relatively large. Sometimes the earth and the moon are considered binary planets but what i am talking about is when something like Venus and Earth orbiting together.

Now should we take this to the next level on thinking?
Sure, lets say that there were to planets rotating around each other, and they were in the Goldilocks zone (when the planet is far enough from the sun that there its water is not frozen but not so close that it evaporates) than life could occur on on these planets as we know it (carbon based), if this happened than when they looked up at night or during the day in some cases they would be able to see the life there. This could Even go as far as to prevent something like the dark ages or even religion in an extreme case from happening. I am willing to say this much because one thing about our own sky and what you can see with the naked eye, is that it all looks the same in a sense. For example when you look up in the sky, you really only see three things, and two of those look the same for the most part. The sun is a super bright light, nothing is like it here on earth, and the moon and the stars look the same in color and also look like nothing here on earth. So the sky becomes distant, detached from here, it becomes the heavens, but if they looked up there and something that did look like things down here than that would force them to think about things in a different manner. And as soon as they get the hang of map making than they would start to realize that like on their own planet this other planet has continents, oceans, forests and life. Not only this but if one of the planets life developed electricity than the other planet would be able to see the planet when its in the dark.
For us here on earth the space race happened because two nations were trying to show off their power, but in this situation they would race to get to the other planet. One would hope that they had something similar to the UN that would keep them from directly contacting this other life to let them have natural evolution and development.
This is what i like thinking about. I wish I could talk to people that could help me think more about this in a better light and understanding.
Oh well. someday there will be a chance for me.
Till next time.