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Re:A sound so loud that it circled the Earth four times (2014) by T-hawk on Monday November 30, 2020 @03:13PM (#25258356)
There is the anthropic principle regarding that last: if the star wasn't typical and stable, life wouldn't have developed here to observe it.
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Re:A sound so loud that it circled the Earth four times (2014) by bee_rider on Monday November 30, 2020 @03:49PM (#25258787)
The anthropic principle doesn't need it to be typically stable though, right? It could be exceptionally stable, in a particularly evil universe, and we'd most likely crop up in a nice little stable oasis.
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Re:A sound so loud that it circled the Earth four times (2014) by eloff on Monday November 30, 2020 @06:11PM (#25260246)
If it were unstable during the 4 billion year history of life it could wipe life out and we wouldn't be here to observe it. But it depends on the magnitude of "unstable".
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Re:A sound so loud that it circled the Earth four times (2014) by T-hawk on Monday November 30, 2020 @06:35PM (#25260452)
Our sun is exceptionally stable - it has no close encounters with other stars that might disrupt planetary orbits, which does happen in galactic nuclei or globular clusters. We are in that nice little stable oasis.
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