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panfluteman

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17. I Didn't Think the Profanity Was So Cool

Fri Feb 6, 2015, 11:51 PM

Feb 2015

And I agree with Yui Yoshida that having a stable and relatively boring interstellar environment provides the optimum conditions for life to evolve and unfold, which doesn't happen in a wowie zowie flash, but over millions, even billions, of years. There are other things about our solar system, I read once, that protect and coddle the earth - like huge planets from Jupiter to Neptune - whose huge gravitational fields attract the vast majority of stray asteroids, and stuff like that, before they can get in to earth. What's boring for astrophysicists is nevertheless cool for the evolution of life as we know it.

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Study Finds Earth Located In Lamest Part Of Universe [View all] yuiyoshida Feb 2015 OP

Obama! immoderate Feb 2015 #1

We're a backwater? CanonRay Feb 2015 #2

"We come looking for intelligent life..." forest444 Feb 2015 #3

A thought.... N_E_1 for Tennis Feb 2015 #4

Pre-destiny, or what you say demwing Feb 2015 #15

No real dogmatic aspect.... N_E_1 for Tennis Feb 2015 #16

Ours would be better without greedy and mean people. Scuba Feb 2015 #5

I am not that voice in my head.I am the obseerver of that voice bjobotts Feb 2015 #19

Or as Lt. Ripley may say, "The ass end of space". n/t miyazaki Feb 2015 #6

The Onion has really been a roll lately K&R deutsey Feb 2015 #7

yuiyoshida Diclotican Feb 2015 #8

panfluteman seems to agree with you yuiyoshida Feb 2015 #23

Maybe so, but we have the best Baseball and Basketball teams! n/t n2doc Feb 2015 #9

Earth: mostly harmless... ms liberty Feb 2015 #10

:D C Moon Feb 2015 #11

mark twain's "letters from the earth" referred to this as basically a podunk, unimportant after- niyad Feb 2015 #12

Love it! SheilaT Feb 2015 #13

Yep. I understand. If you buy a Laser, make it a green one. They're the brightest. BlueJazz Feb 2015 #20

Our solar system padfun Feb 2015 #14

I Didn't Think the Profanity Was So Cool panfluteman Feb 2015 #17

I think you were agreeing with Diclotican yuiyoshida Feb 2015 #22

This is a Major Discovery; even though many already suspected it zebonaut Feb 2015 #18

And the primitive creatures living here still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea. WhoIsNumberNone Feb 2015 #21