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The Skeptics Guide #889 - Jul 23 2022

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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Are Super Earths Habitable?

About five percent of the f rbs that have been detected so far have some sort of repeating nature to them, whether it's days, many or hundreds days at a time. But those are the ones that you are able to study, predict and get a lot more information than just figuring out there was a one off one back in two thousand 16 with this kind of data. All right, bob, finish up by telling us about habitable super earths? Habitable? Habitable?! Asuper earths? Yes. In the news, new simulations show that these gargantuan, rocky worlds with hydrogen an helium atmospheres could sustain life for far longer than we thought possible in some scenarios

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