Thursday, April 2, 2020

Life on rogue planets?

You need a star for life, right?

Not so fast. Remember those Chernobyl mushrooms that feed off of radiation?

Some rogue planets might be radioactive enough for the heat to allow liquid water on the surface. Such planets might also have enough radiation to support radiotrophic "plants" on which an ecosystem could be built.

There's a science fiction story in there somewhere...

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