Speaker
Erik Zackrisson
Description
Even if only a minor fraction of the terrestrial planets in the habitable zone around red dwarfs turn out to have conditions required for the emergence of intelligent life, the large numbers of such stars, coupled to their extremely long main-sequence lifetimes, suggest that most intelligent observers should find themselves on planets around red dwarfs in the distant future, and not around solar-type stars in the current era of the Universe. This would make us outliers in the cosmic distribution of observers, but how much of a concern is this? Here, we take a closer look at this problem and some its many potential solutions, including mechanisms that could adversely affect the habitability of planets in the far future.
