Je Nique vos Merdiers
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- Posted: Wed, 09 Jan 2013 17:45:45 +0000
I doubt it. Lots of life forms from Earth that naturally embed themselves in space-bound equipment that can survive in space, there's life in nuclear reactors, and anaerobic thermal ocean vents. It's not hard to imagine that there's life on lots of planets, and becoming multicellular is just a matter of having a special subset of the conditions that allow life to arise. This is already observed in nature, and it's called "nestedness". The probability of finding a planet with single-celled life is likely, multicellular life less likely, and intelligent, multicellular life rare. The conditional probabilities of each are higher, so if you have one, you're more likely to find the other.
Maybe our perception of our planet is too egocentric. Perhaps Earth is actually just run-of-the-mill in terms of the universe, and there are even rarer planets than ours, that are even better at supporting life. After all, this one has a species which is causing a mass extinction and a planetary shift in climate and ocean pH. Surely we are not the best nature can do.
Maybe our perception of our planet is too egocentric. Perhaps Earth is actually just run-of-the-mill in terms of the universe, and there are even rarer planets than ours, that are even better at supporting life. After all, this one has a species which is causing a mass extinction and a planetary shift in climate and ocean pH. Surely we are not the best nature can do.