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Post #21by PlutonianEmpire » 11.04.2005, 11:33

julesstoop wrote:Even if Deneb were to have captured an entire planetary system - around a G- or M-class star without disturbing it too much gravitationally, the rather large amount of UV-radiation and the - undoubtedly - fierce weather (stellar wind) from Deneb would probably have a noticible influence on life on a planet in the captured sstem.

You mean like it would blow the planet's atmosphere away, or just cause really nasty superstorms?
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Post #22by selden » 11.04.2005, 14:03

and fried them with all the radiation...
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Post #23by ajtribick » 11.04.2005, 16:08

...and if the inhabitants ever invent refrigerator coolants then the destruction of the ozone will mean they'll reach the SUN LOTION EVENT HORIZON, their economy will collapse and the only survivors will mutate into underground mole-like creatures who will refuse to ever step on the surface again.

(with apologies to Douglas Adams)
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