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A Red Dwarf Blasts off a Superflare. Any Life on its Planets Would Have a Very Bad Day
Universe Today ^
| 10/19/2018
| Evan Gough
Posted on 10/20/2018 3:46:21 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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10/20/2018 3:46:21 PM PDT
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BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
10/20/2018 3:57:44 PM PDT
by
Grampa Dave
(Dems @ the Kavanaugh lynching, told Americans that non gay men of any color have Zero future w/them!)
To: Grampa Dave
If Obama was still President, every planet in every galaxy would be paradise.
To: BenLurkin
I wonder how far away and how long ago this happened. I searched the article for light years but didn’t get any hits.
Not sure why red dwarfs are theoretically more likely to have habitable exoplanets. Our own sun and our very existence seems to belie that.
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posted on
10/20/2018 4:10:51 PM PDT
by
be-baw
(still seeking...)
To: BenLurkin
“When I realized the sheer amount of light the superflare emitted, I sat looking at my computer screen for quite some time just thinking, ‘Whoa.'” – Parke Loyd, Arizona State University.
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posted on
10/20/2018 4:11:10 PM PDT
by
Delta 21
(.....been here this long you actually expect me to read the article....)
To: BenLurkin
——— Younger stars . . . exhibit more flaring activity [sic] than intermediate and old age stars. And it’s possible that this flaring [sic] occurs daily ———
Indicating that life across the cosmos is pretty much the same……
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posted on
10/20/2018 4:19:28 PM PDT
by
mikrofon
(Weekend BUMP)
To: BenLurkin
A Gamma Ray Burst is something powerful enough to kill all life in systems not only in the system of the star, but in the surrounding region. They don't occur much, but galaxies have so many stars in their center regions that it is unlikely for life to exist there due to Gamma Ray Bursts. This eliminates 90% of all stars as places where life like ours would evolve.
Our best defense against these would be to spread out into multiple systems. We can even colonize the most dense parts of the galaxy, but it would come at the cost of periodically losing the entire populations of star systems.
Couple this with this article about red dwarfs, and now probably 95% of all star systems are uninhabitable.
To: Vince Ferrer
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posted on
10/20/2018 4:29:08 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
Really, kewl!
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posted on
10/20/2018 4:30:21 PM PDT
by
Pilgrim's Progress
(http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
To: BenLurkin
By the time we can observe these things then many of them happened hundreds or thousands of years ago. We really have no idea what things look like there today.
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posted on
10/20/2018 5:01:13 PM PDT
by
Revel
To: Pilgrim's Progress
A "Kryten Turret"
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posted on
10/20/2018 5:11:36 PM PDT
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BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
10/20/2018 5:14:19 PM PDT
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Pilgrim's Progress
(http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
To: Grampa Dave
Holly miscalculated something.
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posted on
10/20/2018 5:24:12 PM PDT
by
wally_bert
(I will competently make sure the thing is done incompetently.)
To: BenLurkin
Ace Rimmer back in time and in action.
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posted on
10/20/2018 5:25:09 PM PDT
by
wally_bert
(I will competently make sure the thing is done incompetently.)
To: BenLurkin
The biggest bummer of bad news for the Universe is that ideal human conditions are very uncommon.
It would have been awesome if common human traits existed everwhere like 70 degrees, abundant water and no snow.
Sadly the opposite is true.
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posted on
10/20/2018 6:08:27 PM PDT
by
TheNext
(Anonymous Source)
To: Pilgrim's Progress
Rim’mer, “the way you say my name makes it sound like a toilet cleaning product”.
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posted on
10/20/2018 6:13:45 PM PDT
by
NativeSon
( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the Disco)
To: BenLurkin
Red Dwarf, loved that show.
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posted on
10/20/2018 6:36:44 PM PDT
by
Jmouse007
(Lord God Almighty, deliver us from this evil in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, amen.)
To: BenLurkin
Red Dwarf, loved that show.
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posted on
10/20/2018 6:37:18 PM PDT
by
Jmouse007
(Lord God Almighty, deliver us from this evil in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, amen.)
To: Pilgrim's Progress
A Red Dwarf Blasts off a Superflare. Any Life on its Planets Would Have a Very Bad Day I blame the chicken vindaloo.
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posted on
10/20/2018 7:12:38 PM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(Leave the job, leave the clearance. It should be the same rule for the Swamp as for everyone else.)
To: KarlInOhio
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posted on
10/20/2018 8:08:58 PM PDT
by
Pilgrim's Progress
(http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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