Could a blue giant "O" Class star have life-bearing planets?

Question

Since they are much larger and hotter, and shorter lived than our sun, could a massive "O" or "B" class blue giant star harbor life-bearing planets? If so, what might that life be like? And where would they go for Chinese food? Best answer for both scientific accuracy and inspired silliness.

Answer 1

Life may be and may not be there. When we talk bout life in the solar system, we usually take earth as the reference. ex- if there's water, air etc then there's life....but when we're talking bout a planetery system of another star, we can never say even if the 'harmful' radiations emitted by the star may light up a citizen of the planet, as the solar energy lights us up.
If i say things the conventional way, then NO its not reli possible unless a reli protective atmosphere like thing is present around it.
Its right that u think that they are short lived, but planet formations around such stars may be much faster than normal sized star like sun. This is aided by the large amount of radiations and flares emitted by the star. (i mean that planet formation is accelerated by radiations, etc) SO, the planet(s) may be formed when the star is relatively much younger.

well, thats an interesting question, i think they'll go straight to zoholuluchinakapitaz to eat tasty chineese food.

Answer 2

Probably not. They emit too much dangerous radiation, so that any planet at the right distance to have a nice temperature would be bathed in far more ultraviolet light, X-rays and other bad stuff than the Earth is. And O type stars do not last very long, as you pointed out. If our Sun was O type, it would have gone through all its nuclear fuel long before the age of the dinosaurs.

But if inteligent life did live on such a planet, they would get their Chinese food from China, of course.

Answer 3

Not life as we know it. Our biological macromolecules would be too prone to breaking from the radiation from an O class star. Expect life in such a system to be formed from something other than carbon backbones.

Answer 4

Eeyore and Pooh are best of friends so I hope they are always happy. It's probably possible if there isn't any honey left and Eeyore goes ahead and finds some for Winnie the Pooh!