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Don'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 galact
by jdashg 6y ago
Don'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.