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Alien life on Super-Earth can survive longer than us due to long-lasting protection from cosmic rays

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Earth's core

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%27s_inner_core for a slightly more detailed description of the current theory of the Earth's core composition.

Strangely I'd have thought that there would be amounts of heavy radio-active elements also mentioned (Uranium, for example), as these are keeping the core hot, and have been for billions of years.

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