Alien lifeforms, red dwarfs and gas planets
In some visions, the primitive lifeforms could exist also in the atmospheres of the gas planets. There is a possibility that in the deep at the atmosphere of those planets would live alga or bacteria, which could hover at the cloud layer above the layer of the liquid surface. The winds would be extremely powerful, but there is a possibility that the single-cell alga or some kind of amoeba or medusa.
There are many such kinds of hypotheses. In some movies, the gas planets atmosphere would be living some kind of giant birds or something like giant squids, and that kind of thing could eat astronauts. Maybe those things would be too dramatic, but the fact is that the bacteria, what lives in the clouds could make the forms, what looks like tentacles.
The main thing about the lifeforms is that could they get enough photons from the red dwarf that the photosynthesis can begin? (1) Or could they get the energy from some other sources like volcanic sources at under the sea?
Could there be intelligent lifeforms on the planet of a red dwarf? The answer is that the endemic lifeforms of those planets could have a very slow metabolism, which means that they could be very slow, and maybe they could be very primitive. But nothing closes out the possibility of the endemic intelligent lifeforms of those planets.
When we are thinking about planets like Proxima B, which is looking like an Earth there is a possibility, that the lifeforms of those planets are living under the surface of the sea. That environment would protect them against the flares of the red dwarf. But could it possible that under the sea of the planet, what orbits the red dwarf would be intelligent lifeforms?
This hypothetical lifeform could be true, but the fact is that it should be advanced in somewhere else. But if the base would be under the sea, that thing protects it and it's crew against the radiation of the red dwarf when it erupts. The eruption of the red dwarf is a more complicated thing, what we normally think.
During those violent eruptions the helium ions and electrons would hit to the planet, and if the magnetic field of that planet is not strong enough the planet would be strike by the powerful alpha and beta radiations. That thing would burn all life from drylands. But is the base at the planet of red dwarf realistic?
The prime question is where that base will get its energy? The red dwarf is so weak, that the solar panels would not give effective electric supply and the radioactive material in the very old planets would be ended. Because the planet is locked that means that the tidal waves are not a suitable energy source.
When researchers are saying that the planets what are orbiting red dwarfs are at a habitable zone, that thing could mean that the surface temperature of the equator of the planet would rise just above the zero Celsius. In this case, the habitable zone could mean that the water is in liquid form on the planet's surface.
1) https://phys.org/news/2019-01-habitable-planets-red-dwarf-stars.html
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