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Re:The Ethics of Spreading Life in the Cosmos by pfdietz on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @03:49PM (#43475130)
This statement doesn't seem to follow from anything. Why is Earth "not likely to be so unique"?
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Re:The Ethics of Spreading Life in the Cosmos by zoklet-enjoyer on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @04:32PM (#43475619)
Your comment is not worth replying to.

https://www.space.com/30172-six-most-earth-like-alien-planet...

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Re:The Ethics of Spreading Life in the Cosmos by pfdietz on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @07:17PM (#43477123)
It's weird you think that link settles things. A planet could be Earth-like without having life. We don't know how likely life is to arise on an Earth-like planet. In particular, we cannot conclude that because we are here, the probability of it happening on Earth was high, due to observer selection bias.

https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/W6-Observer-sele...

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