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Hmm... Why would contracting clouds of gas and dust that are in the process of forming G-class stars have lots HCN in them, relatively speaking, but clouds of gas and dust forming M-class stars not have it?
1 posted on 04/09/2009 10:51:42 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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M-type stars already have more basic problems -- a planet close enough to be in the liquid-water zone would get tidelocked to the star. (Because M-type stars are somewhat less massive than G-types like Sol, but a lot less luminous, the habitable zone of an M-type is subject to much stronger stellar gravitational forces, including the tidal component thereof.)
2 posted on 04/09/2009 10:56:47 AM PDT by steve-b (Intelligent design is to evolutionary biology what socialism is to free-market economics.)
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They prefer to be called “M-Little People.”


3 posted on 04/09/2009 10:57:34 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks.)
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12 posted on 04/10/2009 3:18:23 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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