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icrushallevil t1_jd7fo04 wrote

Wouldn't the X-rays from Beta Centauri and Proxima Centauri kill life on any planet? Especially proxima seems to be a very active X-ray emitter

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Ser_Optimus t1_jd81i48 wrote

Apparently high radiation levels do not automatically mean extinction or evolution stop.

See this and that.

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icrushallevil t1_jd84ct8 wrote

Sure sure. But it's not a binary answer. It's more like the more ionizing radiation and the harder the ionizing radiation, the lower the probability of life for the simple fact that molecule bonds get torn open.

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Ser_Optimus t1_jd860s5 wrote

A valid point. I'm just saying its's not entirely impossible. As anything when you look at things at the scale of a galaxy.

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