Would a Pulsar Planet be able to support life?

No... at least, not life *as we know it*.... There's very little heat emanating from a Pulsar, and the blast of radiation every few microseconds would kill the life *that we know*...

Incidently - the very first planets beyond our solar system were found around a pulsar; it's pulses were varying a little - coming in faster at times, then slower at times - and it turned out to be orbited by 3 planets, causing it to 'wobble' a bit.

Here's an article about planets orbiting dead and dying stars: http://r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=AwrSbDrWug5WDHUA9D7...

No ...

"In 1992, Aleksander Wolszczan discovered the first extrasolar planets around PSR B1257+12. This discovery presented important evidence concerning the widespread existence of planets outside the Solar System, although it is very unlikely that any life form could survive in the environment of intense radiation near a pulsar."

That is a quote from here :-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulsar

The conditions would not be optimal. But life tries to find a way. Trees will extend roots into your plumbing system and grass grows through concrete and I just saw something on the news about a parthenogenetic snake that has had several litters without male contact.

If the planet is withing a narrow biosphere and depending on atmospheric conditions life will find a way.

The cloud top gravity and surface gravity of a pulsar are about a million times that of Earth. I'm quite sure no kind of life can survive that hot and that much gravity.

Probably not, too much variation in the radiation, the other question is could such a planet exist? Probably not , my answer is no.

No.