100 Years to Live

[mountain_hiker]

I just read this article on Mashable: Hubble Spies Blue Planet - And It's Not Earth.

It says that the planet swoops around its parent star every 2.2 (earth) days. It got me thinking like an episode of Star Trek. So, if one of that planet's years is 2.2 earth days, if a human visited the planet and was effected by how time moves there, he/she

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[ghost_light]

I have no idea about the math but I adore the idea!

[mountain_hiker]

There is an episode of Voyager that is very similar to this concept, though it had more to do with a planet's rotation rather than revolutions around a star.

Blink of an Eye

[enter_san_man]

The passage of time isn't any different. It just makes a complete revolution around its sun much faster than we do.

[randomdreams]

A leading theory as to why it's blue, in combination with its size, distance from the sun, and models of its probable atmospheric conditions, is that the color is a result of absorption of light by a supersonic rain of glass shards shooting through clouds in the upper atmosphere.

[inourtalons]

I don't think having a faster year would change the flow of time. A human would age the same on that planet as it would on Earth. And evolution would probably progress at the same pace. I think the only major difference would be, supposing sentient beings exist/could exist there, the way beings mark the passage of time. A year here is a big deal, but a year there would probably not be.
It would have a pretty profound effect on how things evolve, though. I don't know how seasons would even work on that planet.