Glenn Rocess
1 min readOct 9, 2020

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Sorry, I disagree. A few years ago Proxima Centauri emitted a solar flare visible from Earth, and certainly would have been deadly to any nearby planet. It seems that red dwarfs — as long-lived as they are — may have a tendency to emit such flares, and may well render any planets in their respective “Goldilocks zones” uninhabitable.

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Glenn Rocess
Glenn Rocess

Written by Glenn Rocess

Retired Navy. Inveterate contrarian. If I haven’t done it, I’ve usually done something close.

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