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Planetary chauvinism

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G. Carl Sagan criticised this belief on the grounds that intelligent life has a greater chance of evolving on the most long lived stars. That suggests that class-M and class-K stars are more likely candidates, not only because of their lifetime, but also because they are far more numerous than
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An even narrower version of planetary chauvinism is G-star chauvinism. This is the assumption that intelligent life will always evolve in star systems similar to our own, that is, in stars of
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From the abstract: "We argue that an advanced form of life based upon short-lived species can exist inside
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is the belief that human society will always be planet-based (even if extended beyond
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There are several hypotheses of the possibility of life originating in the universe
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Can Self-Replicating Species Flourish in the Interior of a Star?
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Carl Sagan's Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective
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Index



O'Neill cylinder
NASA Ames
Earth
Isaac Asimov
Bill Boggs
Carl Sagan
O'Neill cylinder
spectral class
in places other than planets
Anthropocentrism
Carbon chauvinism
Chauvinism
Particle chauvinism
Surface chauvinism and surfacism
"Towards the orthomolecular environment."


ISBN
0521783038
"Asimov Interview with Bill Boggs (35 minutes in)"
YouTube
Archived
"Somewhere Else Entirely"
ISBN
1438110189
Can Self-Replicating Species Flourish in the Interior of a Star?
doi
10.31526/LHEP.2020.166

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