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[โ€“] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well yeah, I didn't mean that planet specifically. Just one that took a million years to orbit their star. I'm sure there are probably more out there in the same situation,maybe even with a larger sun and in the goldilocks zone and not a gas giant.

[โ€“] PenguinTD@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

yeah, in that sense those creature would be more like plants? since their time flow would be much much slower than our zapping around planet. They would probably look dead to us and we wouldn't know since would probably take 100 earth year to say "ah" in their normal speed. lol