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The Skeptics Guide #923 - Mar 18 2023

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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Is There a Terminator Habitability?

Bob Greene: What if we model a planet that's tidally locked around an M-dwarve that's not water-rich? Right? That's a little bit drier. And so that the side of... There's very little water on the side of the planet facing the star, and that water evaporates, and eventually whatever... It's a desert. So you have a desert on the sides of the planetfacing the star. You have glaciers on the other side, and you have the terminator zone of habitability. He says there are still some problems though, right? The big problem is that red dwarfs are unstable. They would definitely rip away the atmosphere of

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