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Eswyft t1_j1cc61h wrote

Really good read. It's wild to think of these billions of baren planets that look roughly like ours with different orbits causing such a wide array of possibilities

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AtaracticGoat t1_j1eosdo wrote

I highly doubt a tidally locked planet could ever support human life.

Even if it's far enough away from the star that the hot side is temperate, the cold side would be super cold. If the atmosphere is as thick as Earth's I imagine this would result in constant powerful storms across the planet. I doubt you could ever get an ecosystem to properly survive to produce oxygen in sufficient levels for humans.

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StrangeTangerine1525 t1_j1exgmf wrote

The study is referring to alien life, not anything from Earth. I don't think scientists or anyone else besides sci-fi writers care if humans could life on a planet orbiting on red dwarf, you have to have the tech to get there first, and then again, why would you want to go there?

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LeaveIt4Later t1_j1f4gsx wrote

We could run long pipes sending water to the hot side to come back as steam and bring energy back to the cold side, where we would live. Or live underground. If we had the technology to even get to one of these planets I'm sure making some form of home there wouldn't be an issue.

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PoorPauly t1_j1cd3ep wrote

There’s a lot of habitable places provided the technology to survive in them exists. There’s no point worrying about it when we can barely exist on our own planet and really have no means of leaving it any time in the immediate future.

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2carbonchainz t1_j1cfps8 wrote

Usually the motivation for this research is on the possibility of life evolving on these planets, not about human habitability

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cbdog1997 t1_j1gehvo wrote

I mean it's possible but the life it does have would have to be a sweet spot on the planet

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