(January 13, 2016 at 11:38 pm)AAA Wrote:(January 13, 2016 at 10:31 pm)Beccs Wrote: You mentioned planet formation is incredibly unlikely. I pointed out that it seems to be the rule rather than the exception.
Now we're moving the goalposts to life on other worlds.
We have discovered life on ONE planet, and that's likely because we've only explored ONE planet.
With all of our probes on Mars we've barely scratched the surface (pun intended) of that planet.
When they talk og the "goldilocks zone" where life is possible, they generally mean life as we know it.
Who knows what other forms life may take in the universe. It will not be human and some may not be carbon based.
As an aside, we HAVE discovered the building blocks of life on meteors that are billions of years old.
No, I think you're misunderstanding the point about planet formation. If the universe were different, then planets would not form (earlier articles). The universe is the way it is, which allows planets to form.
Well, that's broad and extremely vague.
If the human who designed my car had been different it wouldn't exist in it's current form. But he exists, so my mustang is awesome and not a mini.
And, before you try, that's not any form of indication that a universal designer exists.
Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:
"You did WHAT? With WHO? WHERE???"