Is the Earth a rarity ?

Is the Earth a rarity ?

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One of about 40 billion such planets in the galaxy.

Or 11 billion if you rule out those orbiting red dwarf stars.

planets like earth are common
organisms thriving on those worlds are common

the thing that is humanity is a rarity

There's only one so yee

>humanity is a rarity
Meaning?

Think about all of the countless random events that had to coalesce just right to make humans thrive on Earth. If any one of those circumstances had been even slightly different, maybe there wouldn't have been higher primates that build rocket ships and make chicken soup. Life is probably common, it's everywhere I bet. But what we have here is rare, I don't think human like intelligence occurs often, and when it does it probably dies out before contacting other civilizations. We basically won the cosmic lottery and here we are reaping the benefits.

The moon is the rarity, for a planet like Earth that is. Some argue the relatively stable axis (and therefore climate) caused by the Moon was a catalyst for the development of life.

humans are about ~40k years old and we're close to going extinct. Plants, bacteria, ants, even dogs have done much better at surviving than us. They've been alive for millions of years with pretty much 0 technological/cognitive capabilities. Intelligence might seem like a gift, but what if intelligent creatures innevitably go extinct?

If you think about it, humans are not that great at surviving, we require a lot of care and are very weak against the elements. And we only get our technology from a few gifted individuals, also not every human can be good at everything. We've done well working together but we're probably going to end up nuking ourselves and ending the human race.

>implying God gives a shit about your predictions

not gunna happen

>humans are 40k years old
>dogs are millions of years old
>humans are not that great at surviving
>we're probably going to end up nuking ourselves

Every single fact you have stated is wrong
And nothing you are saying makes any sense
Just leave now

A rarity on what scale?

Not really its a silicate planet covered in water this is very possible in most star systems only the water will most likely be either ice or steam in the atmosphere.

Source?

Humans are several hundred thousand years old and we are the dominant lifeform on earth, and there are no plausible existential threats to our species save maaaaybe nuclear war (or unavoidable cosmic events), which is very unlikely and probably wouldnt wipe us out anyway

This. All creatures are 6000 years old.

>dogs are millions of years old
Patently false. Humans selectively bred wolves that approached for food. Dogs are strictly manmade.

Anatomically modern humans appeared around 0.2 million years ago, and our adaptation against the elements is a mix of social intelligence, fine manipulation of objects, and some of the greatest endurance out of all of the animal kingdom. Our oldest hunting method was persistence hunting, wherein we chased our prey long distances, so long that their bodies would give out and they would keel over while we could pick up and carry edible plant life along the way and, in the worst cases, our bodies could cannibalize themselves to stave off starvation. Given a long enough run, a fit human can catch up to a horse.

If we weren't equipped to stand up to the elements, we wouldn't have spread from the forests of Africa to inhabit the deserts, tundras, mountains, and plains all around the world before our societies even started. Humans were prevalent well before the technology, and even then, pooling our resources and communicating details IS our survival adaptation. We do well working together just like wolves do, just like bison do, just like algae do. It's as much a survival trait as any other in the animal kingdom.

I like putting it into the perspective of how much time we've been doing our thing. Dinosaurs held this planet nearly a thousand times longer than our species has existed, and they accomplished nothing but continued existence. If there's no path of environmental challenges that's conducive to intelligence, then intelligence as we know it will not arise no matter how much life evolves. If we find another dominant form of life out there, it's likely it'll be in some other form from our own, be it invasive spores, a food cycle of parasites, some kind of swarm animal, or large beasts competing to be more monstrous like the dinosaurs were.

>if you rule out those orbiting red dwarf stars.
Why?

Red dwarves last longer and will have greater potential for life to develop on a planet around such a star.

>Some argue the relatively stable axis (and therefore climate) caused by the Moon
Is that true? mars has two tiny moons and appear relatively stable.
On the other hand the Moon kneads the crust and keeps the carbon cycle going and continental drift.

yes

God only gave us free will and a soul. If even animals on earth didn't get he obviously didn't bother with other planets...

>Is that true? mars has two tiny moons and appear relatively stable.

I think it's because the moon is so large compared to the planet it orbits, because its believed to have originated after a collision.

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Considering how big the universe is, I highly doubt it.

Prove it scientifically or go back to jerking off with the bible

yea, we will never build a better space station than the combination of earth, moon and sun

>Patently false

That's what he said

>organisms thriving on those worlds are common
Pulling claims out of your ass again?