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Examples
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Why not suppose that they are avoiding Earth because of the genocidal tendencies of green algae or because planets that are not tide-locked violate the established rules of planetary aesthetics?
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So no, I can't see how a planet circling a brown dwarf and capable of holding liquid water anywhere on its surface could fail to be tide-locked, with all the complications for life that this implies.
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