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Surveying For Habitable Interstellar Star Systems (Narration Only)

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

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How to Colonize Red and Orange Dwarf Stars

There are around 500 yellow or g type stars within 100 light years of earth. Bigger, hotter stars produce more of v as part of their trom and tends to rip up molecules ozone,. oxygen molecules composed of three oxtion atoms. High lights allowed the basic biocentras we would expect on planets orbiting color stars. Methane, nitrous oxide and chloro methane, also known as metho chloride, were all labelled as good candilates because they would have longer lifetimes and mixing ratios than on earth or other worlds. The faint glow from ultra violet light can tear a diatomic oxygen molecule part, and those two free oxygen atoms can find a new home.

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