These suns being so young might be getting pummeled by incoming celestial bodies as the accretion disk of new planets form correct? Could Super Flares be caused by this?
Good point! That could have been a way for life to cling on in the early days of the Solar System, when there was a lot more UV radiation flying around. Possibly mirco-organisms could also have survived in chunks of rock thrown up in asteroid impacts, though that's a bit more speculative.
Ever since I was a kid, I thought it strange that we lived happily on the surface of our planet and not underground, protected from the doom of incoming asteroids and other phenomenon.
These suns being so young might be getting pummeled by incoming celestial bodies as the accretion disk of new planets form correct? Could Super Flares be caused by this?
Re: "But such a flare could also strip the ozone layer; bathing the planet in deadly ultraviolet rays for decades."
Maybe micro-organisms deep underground would survive. The meek shall inherit the Earth.
Good point! That could have been a way for life to cling on in the early days of the Solar System, when there was a lot more UV radiation flying around. Possibly mirco-organisms could also have survived in chunks of rock thrown up in asteroid impacts, though that's a bit more speculative.
Ever since I was a kid, I thought it strange that we lived happily on the surface of our planet and not underground, protected from the doom of incoming asteroids and other phenomenon.