Life on M&M/Mars! Er, something like that....

[ganymede]

So I'm 'leafing' through the Space.com headlines and I run into this...

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/090409-sm-reddwarf-life.html

...so hey! Whaddya guys think?

 

[aramis]

The atmo simulations are a decade old.
The magnetic field calcs are about 5-6 years old news.
The idea of a tidelocked or nearly tidelocked world around a dim star goes back to the 1960's... Doc Smith... Lensman.

 

[samuelvss]

All news to me.

But then again I'm a social scientist, lawyer-in-recovery, and a part-time faux engineer...:nonono