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It's important to remember that our planet had ocean-sized flasks and hundreds of millions of years to evolve life. The organizational leaps required could invo
by tachyonbeam 6y ago
It's important to remember that our planet had ocean-sized flasks and hundreds of millions of years to evolve life. The organizational leaps required could involve extremely low-probability events that are nearly impossible to replicate in a lab. However, these events only needed to happen once.
- pfdietz 6y agoHowever, the complexity gap is exponential in the size of the molecules. Viewed in that light, the difference between an ocean and an eyedropper is inconsequential.
- jdashg 6y agoDon't forget: It's size of oceans times age of life times the untold number of worlds where life's had a chance to form but just didn't get lucky! It's a galactic survivorship bias where only the luckiest of planets evolve to ask "why us?"
- tachyonbeam 6y agoWith the caveat that variance is infinite when N=1, life seems to have come about fairly early after our planet became survivable. That suggests that if the right conditions are present, life might not be so unlikely.