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Why didn't we evolve around a red dwarf star?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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The Red Dwarf Paradox

The Fermi paradox is the idea that we should have been contacted or seen aliens right now, but we haven't given the size of the universe. The red dwarf paradox asks why isn't our star a red dwarf? Our sun is a nice yellow or white, I guess, technically white, a ball of fire. It's not a red. And so that's kind of what the paradox is about.

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