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Re:Surprising Phosphate Finding in NASA's Osiris-Rex Asteroi... by pavel_lishin on Monday July 01, 2024 @11:29AM (#40846757)
If there were enough of these warm, water-bearing bodies, then the probability could be low and still result in early life formation, right?
Re:Surprising Phosphate Finding in NASA's Osiris-Rex Asteroi... by pfdietz on Monday July 01, 2024 @11:41AM (#40846885)
Especially if the "enough" is "enough around any star, anywhere". The a priori probability of it happening around any particular star need not be high. And "anywhere" can be something extremely broad, as in "on any branch of a universal Many Worlds wave function".
Re:Surprising Phosphate Finding in NASA's Osiris-Rex Asteroi... by gradus_ad on Monday July 01, 2024 @11:57AM (#40847056)
Yes but the window of time during which these bodies could have contained liquid water was very narrow, so there would have needed to be a very high number of such bodies to support the low probability of life hypothesis