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[QUOTE="Dr Wu, post: 6815289, member: 546940"] A bit late in the day now to include this notion here, but on the basis of better late than never. . . To reiterate: aside from the manifold challenges to life posed by tidal locking, any potentially life-bearing world orbiting a red dwarf typically has to endure the added menace of solar flares, CMEs etc. Regarding the latter issue, however, I did happen to chance upon a science article (source now unrecalled, alas) which suggested that these flares could occur [I]away [/I]from a given red-dwarf's equatorial regions, occurring instead at higher (and lower) latitudes. If so, they could conceivably miss any orbiting planet altogether, with all the knock-on benefits this might offer for indigenous life appearing on its surface. Even if this conjecture has now been binned by those who know better, there's still no reason why it can't work in fiction. The cosmos, after all, is plenty roomy enough to allow for the odd exception without the suspension of disbelief going into a tailspin. Just a thought to throw into the mix. . . Apologies in advance if this idea has already been mooted here. [/QUOTE]
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