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Comment on Explaining Rare Technological Life and Problems With Other Stars by guest
['Brian Wang']
Comments for NextBigFuture.com
Why does humanity live on a planet orbiting a rare G-type dwarf star (like our Sun) when M-type red dwarfs comprise 82% of stars and are 33 times more abundant?
These form the Red Sky Paradox suggesting something suspicious about M-dwarfs despite their frequent rocky planets in habitable zones.
This yields a ~95% confidence cutoff at 0.34 solar masses—excluding ~67% of stars from hosting intelligent life.
The early billion years or so of red dwarfs have a lot of excess radiation that is problematic for life.
We need to increase observations support what Bayesian statistics is suggesting red dwarfs (low mass stars) make it difficult to support life.