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"Life Without Stars? Request for feedback on a chapter of a non-fiction book
The implications of an important 2023 paper have not been fully understood: it is possible most life in our universe is in the deep oceans of icy moons, orbiting planets that do not orbit stars
This is a fundamental sea change in the way we view the solar system.” – Sol Alan Stern, a guy who has done everything, working as an astrophysicist, an engineer, a planetary scientist, and the principal investigator of the New Horizons mission to Pluto. This is an artist’s image (NOT a photograph, so don’t get excited, our cameras and telescopes aren’t that good yet) of a protoplanetary disc; the swirling pancake of gas and dust around a newborn star, from which planets will form. An advanced civilisation that developed in a single, vast, subsurface ocean, beneath a crust of ice twenty or fifty or a hundred miles thick, may never even conceptualise a larger universe – an elsewhere – let alone explore it.
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