05 Mar 2018 01:58
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Merged from the "What do you think about the super flare of the star Proxima Centauri?" topic
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I know that life around M-type stars (mostly flare stars) is considered very unlikely. It orbits 20 times closer than earth relative to the sun, so any of these events you "fry" all the life present in there.
I was always been quite skeptic about life around Proxima Centauri. I think the only type of stars that allows life to develop are K, G and F stars (with K being the most and F being the least), I also consider unlikely some forms of life in deep ocean for M stars, it is way harder to get things going in the right way "exactly in one of these points" rather than in all the area that the Earth had to develop life. If it could potentially happen it surely requires much more time than it took on Earth to reach a proper stage of life, like those of multicellular, eventually more than the 4,85 Gyr of age it already has.
The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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