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Diabetic Heihachi

@vicgrinberg
Another #GreatFilter. A civilization needs enough time of stellar calm to develop and get off the rock spinning inside the shooting gallery. The odds of getting dutch oven'd by your parent star are pretty good in those lengths of time.

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Dr. Victoria Grinberg

@DavBot Not really - getting "off the rock" is likely too rare an event and ther isn't much where one could go. But stellar flares to play an important role in habitability studies, e.g. to make sure a planet can keep an atmosphere at all: aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2022

Diabetic Heihachi

@vicgrinberg
Very cool! This is proposing flares act like a haircut for a planets atmosphere, too little and your all hot and sweaty, too much and your bald and burned.

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