And then there were watermelon-eating and seed-spitting contests and old fashioned sack races.
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Orlando Sentinel Staff,
The Orlando Sentinel,
4 July 2026
One significant problem, however, is that red dwarfs spit out harmful torrents of radiation in fierce gusts of their stellar winds, which can strip away a planet's atmosphere.
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