The Guardians - Ahead of our Time?
As you know, from time to time I like to highlight how the adventures of the Guardians keeps its collective finger on the pulse of reality.
Recently, I mentioned one of the planets that the Guardians help colonize, Kalliste.
However, this is just one of a number of worlds where they do such things.
In the very latest book currently being written - Phoenix Rising - there's a grand revelation regarding the Ceol Star system, and a rather unique symbiosis with a very special place, Armoin.
Ceol is an M class Red Dwarf with one planet within the habitable zone. (An area also known as the Goldilocks zone, which is the region within which a planetary-mass object with sufficient atmospheric pressure can support liquid water on its surface)
Obviously, the bounds of the habitable zone are calculated knowing the requirements of Earth's biosphere, its position within the solar system, and the amount of radiant energy it receives from the sun. Such factors are believed instrumental in determining the scope and distribution of extraterrestial life and intelligence.
The stuff of sheer fiction perhaps?
Well, please take a look at this rather interesting press release from the CETI institute regarding exactly that kind of thing with a real life Red Dwarf (Kepler 186) and an actual world called Kepler 186f.
It makes interesting reading, and is another example where the science fiction of today, may very well become the science fact of tomorrow.
Enjoy :)
