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1 posted on 12/09/2020 10:17:59 AM PST by Red Badger
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>> red dwarf Proxima Centauri was caught belching out a colossal flare 10 times more powerful than the largest eruptions<<

Rosarita Refries and beer makes one inhospitable to life.


2 posted on 12/09/2020 10:23:53 AM PST by freedumb2003 ("Do not mistake activity for achievement." - John Wooden)
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"This is probably bad news on the space weather front. It seems likely that the galaxy's most common stars - red dwarfs - won't be great places to find life as we know it," Zic said.

Wow, the Democrat Party Cabal (including "Science!") continues becoming progressively more Gloom-and-Doom as this 2020 Presidential (Democrat-perpetrated) election-fraud year drags on ...

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4 posted on 12/09/2020 10:40:05 AM PST by gw-ington (The Office of the President-Elect gw-ington and Vice President-Elect Loch Ness Monster)
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...dampening hopes for habitable conditions on the rocky world

I had such high hopes. I hate it when they get dashed against the rocks like that. What a miserable Christmas this is going to be with my dampened hopes.

5 posted on 12/09/2020 10:41:16 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom ("Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out" -- David Horowitz)
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Are we SURE that's a Proxima Centauri flare?


7 posted on 12/09/2020 10:45:07 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom ("Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out" -- David Horowitz)
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Habitable for us, maybe. Who’s to say other species need oxygen and water?


8 posted on 12/09/2020 10:45:16 AM PST by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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There is no life out there.

When I played with the numbers years past I got 0.000000000000852687% chance that life is at any given star (based on the Drake equation).

Not considering the ability to travel or communicate over such distances (makes it all sort of a moot point), just based on the probability of life, when you look at a spec in the sky at night and wonder, accept that there is only a 0.000000000000852687% chance that life is there.

Even if we offset that with the vast size of our galaxy (assume 200,000,000,000 stars), we are still just at a .l7% probability for the entire Milky Way. That’s .17%, as in 99.83% chance the answer is no.

Most of space is cold, a void, dark, and if you are near a star, or on a rock near it, it’s likely a very inhospitable place.


9 posted on 12/09/2020 10:49:46 AM PST by Red6
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"On October 16, 1997, the United States is gearing up to colonize space. The Jupiter 2, a futuristic saucer-shaped spacecraft, stands on its launch pad undergoing final preparations.
Its mission is to take a single family on a five-and-a-half-year journey to an Earthlike planet orbiting the star Alpha Centauri".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_in_Space#Overview


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10 posted on 12/09/2020 10:50:10 AM PST by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! DEMOCRAT-Russia collusion!! Click ETL...)
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Hope the little green men there read this and hop in their saucers to move to another solar system.


11 posted on 12/09/2020 11:13:51 AM PST by LouieFisk
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Dwarf stars have a reputation for way more intense flare activity—not new.


15 posted on 12/09/2020 10:28:37 PM PST by Ozark Tom
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"We need to talk about your flare."

17 posted on 12/10/2020 6:45:00 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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