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Life as we know it seems to depend on have a large Moon, a planetary makeup infused with heavy metals, a distance from our star and rotation that makes most of
by CapitalistCartr 3y ago
Life as we know it seems to depend on have a large Moon, a planetary makeup infused with heavy metals, a distance from our star and rotation that makes most of the planet a temperature good for our kind of life, a star that's safely boring, and LOTS of water.
But with 10 to the 24th stars, even one in a billion odds are no deterrent.
- candiddevmike 3y agoAccording to some articles on Google, there are 275 million stars born every day. That's a lot of dice rolls.
- DennisP 3y agoBut we also don't know how life started. There's a big gap between the simple organic molecules that pop up everywhere, and metabolizing reproducing life, and we have no idea how many improbable events had to occur to bridge that gap. For all we know, it takes a whole universe rolling those dice before it's likely to happen even once.