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Originally Posted by ASEI
It might be uninhabitable to normal earthlike life. But intense radiation doesn't have to kill everything, esp if the cells divide fast enough, or keep their genetic instructions in many smaller self-sufficient units.
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I like that. We think everything in the universe will be just like us. But maybe our version of multicellular life is only one solution. Who knows what arrangements have evolved elsewhere that might be able to cope with what we consider uninhabitable.
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"I am happy to report that once again the universe is doing just great, thank you, purring with perfection, ever-changing same as always. Light is still cruising along at 186,000 miles per second, and the expanding universe shows no signs of contracting. At this rate, it won't be long before they'll have to let the photon belt out another notch."
Swami Beyondananda's 2007 State of the Universe address
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