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To: KevinDavis

100 AU is quite close. I question whether even if there were a planet around this star, it could harbor complex life forms with two suns in the sky. And that does not touch on the question whether the orbit would even be stable given the competing tides of a binary star system.


14 posted on 01/20/2010 6:01:34 PM PST by Brilliant
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To: Brilliant
100 AU is quite close. I question whether even if there were a planet around this star, it could harbor complex life forms with two suns in the sky.

Yeah. How the hell could they get any sleep?

20 posted on 01/20/2010 8:26:57 PM PST by Erasmus (<under construction>)
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