re: The limit

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re: The limit

Raoul — 3/2/2008 4:16:35 PM (archived)

Well, habitable zones around any star (except perhaps red dwarfs) are quite unstable as stars change during their lifetime!

By the time our sun swells, the habitable zone would already have moved way past Earth's orbit.

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The Sun will swallow the Earth in 7.6 Billion years - Raoul - 3/2/2008 9:31:43 AM
- We'll just move the Homeworld Galactic Preserve to another star. (n/t) - TB - 3/2/2008 4:03:43 PM
- An interesting limit? - nick hoffman - 3/2/2008 12:10:17 PM
  - Bury the oceans? - Adam - 3/3/2008 8:46:49 AM
    - Stellar Engineering - REB - 3/3/2008 2:15:11 PM
      - You've got a bit of basic physics working AGAINST you there - nick hoffman - 3/3/2008 11:33:37 PM
        
        Won't the big Rip pull those atoms apart? - TAFKASE - 3/4/2008 7:41:27 PM
        
        If the Universe accelerates, perhaps in 20 Billion years... - Raoul - 3/4/2008 8:52:11 PM
        
        That thought had occured to me - REB - 3/4/2008 2:02:47 PM
        
        We've got 4000 billion star systems in the Milky Way galaxy alone - Socrates II - 3/4/2008 2:45:42 PM
        
        Just nit-piking...by an order of magnitude - ER - 3/4/2008 7:11:51 PM
        
        My finger slip - Socrates II - 3/4/2008 8:06:17 PM
        
        And to add - Socrates II - 3/4/2008 10:31:24 PM
  - re: The limit - Raoul - 3/2/2008 4:16:35 PM
  - re: An interesting limit? - Bowser - 3/2/2008 4:14:32 PM

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