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Old 19-August-2008, 10:38 PM
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Interesting in what way? Do you consider planets with tidal lock more likely to have life than other planets? Guess almost tidal locked planets are even more unlikely to have life than tidal locked planets.
That the planet is tidally locked to the star is an assumption; that the star is tidally locked to the planet is the observation (close enough), and it is the latter that is remarkable.
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