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Re:Seven earth-sized planets discovered circling a star 39 l... by gydfi on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @04:33PM (#13709359)
Maybe but I like to think there are creatures living in the temperate rim of a tidally locked planet somewhere debating whether life could possibly evolve on a rotating planet.

"I mean, there'd be temperature fluctuations of tens of degrees every day! It would be dark half the time! How could life survive in such an unstable environment?"

Re:Seven earth-sized planets discovered circling a star 39 l... by gwern on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @06:46PM (#13710360)
And don't forget: there will be long-term cyclical trends of dozens of degrees due to geometric properties of the orbit and hypothesized tilts!