You're assuming that the imperium is only looking for habitable planets with life on them to put roots down on if I'm following you. A planet could be a rock with an atmosphere and water and nothing more sophisticated than random strands of RNA. If the planet only has a 20,000 year habitable window that's a lot of time in human standards. Lets face it a few billion years back you could have chucked down a human colony on Mars and started farming there... Possibly. :)
Derek Stanley
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> I still have to loop back and finish looking at the earlier one, but I
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Derek Stanley
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> On Apr 7, 2014, at 7:06 PM, "Mike West" <> wrote:
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> I don’t know if I have the WTH around anywhere, so I can’t speak to the tables easily.
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> On the subject of M0-4 stars working, it is my understanding they can. (Heck Mire has an M0V, and I don’t think anyone has tried to change it.) It was just the dinky red dwarfs that were the issue (e.g. Alell).
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> I still have to loop back and finish looking at the earlier one, but I
> think there's still something going on in 3 and 4 based on other remarks
> abo ut M0-4 being too cold, and giants being inadmissible.
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> Is it your understanding the using the habitable zones table is adequate,
> or that there is something beyond that?
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