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To: Red Badger
Life on Pluto?

Yeah, okay.

From Space.com (emphasis mine) - At its warmest, when it is closest to the sun, Pluto can reach temperatures of minus 369 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 223 degrees Celsius).

14 posted on 10/08/2015 11:32:06 AM PDT by WayneS (Yeah, it's probably sarcasm...)
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To: WayneS
From Space.com (emphasis mine) - At its warmest, when it is closest to the sun, Pluto can reach temperatures of minus 369 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 223 degrees Celsius).

I was thinking the same thing.

Very little life on Earth can survive beyond -20C (and we're talking organisms here, not sentient life forms) and it's not even theorized that anything could exist at the temperatures on Pluto.

Keep in mind that it takes Pluto 248 YEARS to orbit, so those balmy temperatures you speak only come around for a few days four times a millennium.

20 posted on 10/08/2015 11:42:09 AM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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