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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 12 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

The one thing that might save the situation is that a planet in a red dwarf's habitable zone would become tidally locked within a few hundred million years after formation, but stripping away the atmosphere could take up to around 2 billion years. This gap might be long enough for intelligent life forms to evolve in the temperate zone created by the tidal locking.