(July 14, 2017 at 8:59 am)vorlon13 Wrote: Amazing how many more ways a planet can "go wrong" regarding the development of life. Yeah, were finding many more planets, but it's bewildering how many more ways they can turn out unpleasant than may have been appreciated in the early 80s when Sagan (and others) were discussing odds and probabilities of all this.
Well, it's just happenstance that we're in the Goldilocks Zone and all the rest. I doubt we'll find a "typical" planet like Earth out there. The variables are, after all, astronomical.