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Sapient Life Indigenous to a Planet Orbiting a Red Dwarf
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[QUOTE="Lren Zvsm, post: 6572436, member: 62982"] I am considering writing a story that features aliens indigenous to a planet orbiting a red dwarf star. Even so, because of its proximity to the red dwarf, the planet's surface receives much more radiation than Earth's surface does. What is more, the planet has no moon to stabilize its axis. This means that the organisms on this planet have to migrate quickly from region to region. They accomplish partly through their ability to attach themselves to each other and coordinate their movements and configurations to move as a single large creature in cold climates, while detaching themselves from one another and moving as separate but highly social creatures in warmer climates. The fact that our creatures have to adapt to a world with an ever-changing climate means that, physically if not genetically, the red-sun-world's creatures are less physically diverse than life on Earth. Organisms on this planet use the energy from this radiation to regenerate more cells than the radiation destroys. Thus adapted to the radiation, they NEED the radiation. Without it, nothing checks their cell-growth and they die horribly as if by some pan-somatic cancer. At the same time, the dazzling physical diversity of life on Earth fascinates them and prompts them to observe our world. Unfortunately, they are dangerous to life on Earth, because the radioactive elements they wear to give them their needed radiation on Earth's surface give a lot of Earth organisms radiation sickness. How "hard" (scientifically plausible) is this science fiction set-up? [/QUOTE]
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