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Old 03-January-2007, 02:40 PM
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Originally Posted by Sporally View Post
Well, the gas giants we find are also uninhabitable, but fair enough then. Let's look at the planets around the main sequence stars only
Touche, but allow me to 'schplain. Even though gas giants aren't "inhabitable" in the "lets land and plant a flag" sense, theoretically it would be possible to visit said planets from orbit (even the epistellars) with a manned spacecraft or a probe. Y'ain't putting man nor beast nor machine anywhere near a pulsar planet with any semblence of operational functionality because of the insane amount of rads being hurled by the pulsar. Totally untouchable, even if we could travel to them.
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