Long ago, I read on hubski about an experiment or a theory, that with the right conditions (heat + chemistry), life was inevitable. I found that idea very comforting. This video (a few years old, but new to me) explains this Goldilocks theory of the origins life. Does anyone disagree with this? Is there something I'm missing?
This video was very human-centric, but I have been thinking about this quite a bit from a universal perspective lately. I don’t know if I can quite agree with “inevitable,” I mean, we’re here so clearly life is possible and exists in one place. I feel that it is likely to have arisen in other places as well, but how often and to what level of advancement? I’ve had some thoughts about Fermi’s paradox rolling around in my skull for a bit, I might have to sit at a computer and post them for you all soon.
I believe the rare earth hypothesis much more than more optimistic proposals like the Drake equation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare_Earth_hypothesis Lots of mostly creationist loonies use similar arguments but often with a lot of bad science. They call it the finely tuned universe or something and use it as an argument for the God of Abraham. They then throw out stuff like if the earth were ten feet further from the sun we'd all freeze. I had to watch one of these videos in sober living because drug treatment is virtually in distinguishable from Christianity. I kinda lost my shit when we got to discussing the video. I would guess that life is fairly abundant. But complex life is not and intelligent life is exceedingly rare. Earth is in the Goldilocks Zone, has a large stabilizing moon, has a core that provides a magnetic field, has liquid water, has a thick atmosphere because of the magnetic field, has plate tectonics and has large planets further out in the solar system that absorb a lot of asteroids and comets. I don't even think that's all we got going for us towards multicellular life. All that said there is still probably a few planets somewhere that fit enough of the earth-like condition to produce life similar to our own. Apropos of nothing UFOs are interdimensional beings who don't abide by the same rules of physics as we do. Dont @ me.
The egg didn’t make me uncomfortable, the opposite actually.