I sometimes liken our civilisation as a reed mat floating across the pacific but with ants on it who have invented telescopes, and are trying their best to work out what sales are on at 5th Avenue - I love that we are “concerned” about atmospheric stripping millions of miles away - it gives me hope for those ants floating around
> Small M-dwarf stars ... operate through convection ... likened to what we see in a boiling cauldron of water.<p>> Larger stars like the Sun show a mix of radiative transfer – photons being absorbed and reabsorbed as they make their way to the surface – and convection.<p>> That enhances M-dwarf flare activity as their plasma is twisted and rotated, producing magnetic fields that snap open only to reconnect.<p>This is the first post I've seen targeted toward generic geeks that explained it that way. It makes total sense, is really cool, and I'm glad they wrote this article.