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JGWeissman comments on Open thread for December 9 - 16, 2013 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: JGWeissman 10 December 2013 03:52:37PM 1 point [-]

Can you give an example of a property a star might have because having that property made its ancestor stars better at producing descendant stars with that property?

Comment author: shminux 10 December 2013 07:16:07PM -1 points [-]

Sorry, I'm not an expert in stellar physics. Possibly metallicity, or maybe something else relevant. My original point was to agree that there is no good definition of "life" which does not include some phenomena we normally don't think of as living.