(January 19, 2011 at 4:29 pm)Welsh cake Wrote: The search for alien life may have just gotten a lot harder.
The vast majority of stars in our known universe, red dwarfs, with their flares that behave much like variable stars have such unpredictable outbursts that may extinguish life on their orbiting planets before it ever has a chance to establish.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12184029
This is not exactly new news, at least to me. There are still a large number of singular Yellow or Orange Dwarf star systems, which would have a high chance of having earth type planets or moons out there.
My feeling is that life (including Multicellular forms) is relatively abundant in the universe. This would be in-spite of a universe which is fairly hostile to life.
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