>>43575628I don’t have access to the full paper (and I’m probably too dumb to understand it anyway) but the idea’s that hemerythrin plays a role in helping earthworms regenerate lost body bits after they got cut so species with hemerythrin in their system are more resistant against damage and can heal from worse wounds than otherwise!
>>43576963Basically bioeongeering of indigenous species made them more resilient and efficiency as a whole which is the most important when it comes to the spread of autotrophs since photosynthesis is the main source of oxygen in the atmosphere in current day and put the partial pressure to breathable (if barely) level
I also read the paper linked yesterday but I don’t think tidal heating will apply to Despina since it has a relatively long period (measured in week) and almost no eccentricity so it probably won’t receive any tidal heating from the star. I think I’ll make its geology more stagnant but not yet completely shut down
