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  • Ok, I’ve heard about purple earth, just didn’t know the name. And Canfield ocean was the period after or is it an alternative history idea?

    Either way, that’s not what I meant to say. People say that the brightness of the star and the distance (see habitable zone) and the main biological atom (in our case cabin) and the combination of DNA and RNA are all essential. Changing just one aspect will have devastating effects and make life impossible. But what if Red Dwarfs have a different habitable zone if you use other main atoms and molecules? Maybe there are other energy sources so the star isn’t that important anyway.




  • I somewhat agree with your sentiment. We know only about life on earth and assume we are the norm. There are arguments to make that changing a few parameters will have a negative effect but we might just be a “local optimum” and have no idea what the other local optimums (or even absolute ones) look like.

    Then again, we can make educated guesses and I guess the scientists know that that’s what they are doing. But raising research money is easier if you claim to search for alien life.