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		<title>By: DanS</title>
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		<dc:creator>DanS</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2021 23:12:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I arrived and “Life As We Do Not Know It” will keep my dyslexic brain busy for the next few months.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I arrived and “Life As We Do Not Know It” will keep my dyslexic brain busy for the next few months.</p>
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		<title>By: Vitruvius</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2020/12/26/the-dwarf-dilemma/#comment-46567</link>
		<dc:creator>Vitruvius</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2021 11:41:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Got plenty more recs if you have a genre pref</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Got plenty more recs if you have a genre pref</p>
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		<title>By: DanS</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2020/12/26/the-dwarf-dilemma/#comment-46428</link>
		<dc:creator>DanS</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2020 16:58:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Browsed through some of the preview pages at Amazon.com and my copy of &quot;Life As We Do Not Know It&quot; is now on order.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Browsed through some of the preview pages at Amazon.com and my copy of &#8220;Life As We Do Not Know It&#8221; is now on order.</p>
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		<title>By: ER</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2020/12/26/the-dwarf-dilemma/#comment-46411</link>
		<dc:creator>ER</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Dec 2020 13:56:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>But due to inverse square law, we know exactly how that size (whatever it turns out to be) will vary due to the luminosity of the star.  The brighter the star, the wider the habzone.  Some stars have luminosities over a million times that of our sun, so their habzones will be a thousand times wider (and a thousand times farther out) than sol&#039;s.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>But due to inverse square law, we know exactly how that size (whatever it turns out to be) will vary due to the luminosity of the star.  The brighter the star, the wider the habzone.  Some stars have luminosities over a million times that of our sun, so their habzones will be a thousand times wider (and a thousand times farther out) than sol&#8217;s.</p>
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		<title>By: Vitruvius</title>
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		<dc:creator>Vitruvius</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Dec 2020 11:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>While I can&#039;t speak for all of them, the resource links I posted on my Mars Terraforming Challenge post should direct you to the info you need.

I can say that Habitable Zones are traditionally defined as the region around a star where surface water can exist; that being said, again, there are multiple facotrs involved.  Our studies of the outer moons show that subsirface liquid water can exist, which, combined with our knowledge of deep sea &quot;smoker&quot; ecosystems means there&#039;s a distinct possibility of basic life there.  Other conditions and forms of life have also been explored (I highly recommend Peter Ward&#039;s &lt;em&gt;Life As We Do Not Know It&lt;/em&gt;, which allow for the possibility of life outside standard search areas (i.e. Earth-like worlds).  Returning tothe standard parameters, however, as many of you pointee out, armospheric retention and loss is also something to consider, as well as magnetospheres, the presence of a sufficiently sized lunar body to protect against impacts, the presence of a jovian body to &quot;sweep&quot; the system clean during formation, and sufficient distance from the host star to prevent tidal locking - a feature not present in red dwarf systems, due to their zones lying entitely within tidalnlocking areas.

Again, though, these parameters are all based off our world, since it&#039;s the only confirmed environment where life exists naturally - one way or another, future observations in this area will be enlightening.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>While I can&#8217;t speak for all of them, the resource links I posted on my Mars Terraforming Challenge post should direct you to the info you need.</p>
<p>I can say that Habitable Zones are traditionally defined as the region around a star where surface water can exist; that being said, again, there are multiple facotrs involved.  Our studies of the outer moons show that subsirface liquid water can exist, which, combined with our knowledge of deep sea &#8220;smoker&#8221; ecosystems means there&#8217;s a distinct possibility of basic life there.  Other conditions and forms of life have also been explored (I highly recommend Peter Ward&#8217;s <em>Life As We Do Not Know It</em>, which allow for the possibility of life outside standard search areas (i.e. Earth-like worlds).  Returning tothe standard parameters, however, as many of you pointee out, armospheric retention and loss is also something to consider, as well as magnetospheres, the presence of a sufficiently sized lunar body to protect against impacts, the presence of a jovian body to &#8220;sweep&#8221; the system clean during formation, and sufficient distance from the host star to prevent tidal locking &#8211; a feature not present in red dwarf systems, due to their zones lying entitely within tidalnlocking areas.</p>
<p>Again, though, these parameters are all based off our world, since it&#8217;s the only confirmed environment where life exists naturally &#8211; one way or another, future observations in this area will be enlightening.</p>
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