re: What is life ? - Simplified..- Life has a better chance at becoming...
... during a second nova explosion such as our sun.
Intellitent life arises with an Iron rich state and that only seems to happen during a second generation star such as ours.
If it's so lucky. A moon helps among size and length from our sun.
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Ahh, but our moon is escaping from us (at a rate of an inch and a half every year and our
Earth is slowing down. Just an aside to global warming... smaller tides and sporatic environment. Keep in mind that that has been going on at that rate for every year.
Yet no one has said much except to deduct a second to 2008... etc.
Just an aside and mho.