Reply to post: Re: Tidal forces required in early evolution

ALIENS are surely AMONG US: Average star has TWO potentially Earth-like worlds

Nigel 11

Re: Tidal forces required in early evolution

Then again, we don't see Mars, or any other planet flipping its axis of rotation all around

"Flipping" would take many hundreds of thousands of years, which in evolutionary terms is fast.

Uranus is pretty much half-flipped right now.

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