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To: Dallas59

They’re looking for planets around stars like ours. It could easily be that most habitable planets orbit red dwarf stars, and orbit them very close in.


8 posted on 12/05/2011 11:04:12 AM PST by varmintman
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To: varmintman
There could be potentially habitable planets in any direction from earth, and no doubt they will discover more of them in the future.

Before we spend any money actually getting to one of them, we need to determine if that planet has any chocolate. So far the earth is the only planet known to have chocolate.

22 posted on 12/05/2011 11:35:04 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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It could easily be that most habitable planets orbit red dwarf stars, and orbit them very close in.

Most likely with one hemisphere in eternal daylight. I don't buy the usual arguments against such worlds as habitable worlds (flares and atmosphere freeze-out). They probably offer a more stable environment for life than worlds like ours.

30 posted on 12/05/2011 12:08:16 PM PST by Spirochete (Sic transit gloria mundi)
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