RE: The Human race: A sci-fi story
July 25, 2017 at 11:44 pm
(This post was last modified: July 26, 2017 at 12:33 am by The Valkyrie.)
(July 25, 2017 at 11:09 pm)ignoramus Wrote: Beccs, I'm genuinely interested in finding out how many other planetary systems have a big brother like Jupiter attracting and slinging potential extinction level meteors away from them.
Logically, the vast majority of potentially intelligent life may have been killed off for this reason.
Jupiter may be only thing which makes us special.
It's likely that without protective gas giants such as Jupiter, those advanced civilizations may not have arose at all, depending on the number of comets/asteroids in the system (correct me if I'm wrong, please, someone).
But judging by the number of exo-planets we have found, and the abundance of stars with solar systems in our own stellar neighbourhood alone, I would say it's highly unlikely that we're unique in that aspect.
Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:
"You did WHAT? With WHO? WHERE???"
