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BlueJazz

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7. Yep....and Venus and Mars could have been teaming with life had the formation of those...

Reply to Locut0s (Reply #3)

Wed Dec 11, 2013, 11:08 AM

Dec 2013

....2 planets been a little different. Give Mars some mass and an iron core and we would have a nice twin to visit. The changes to Venus would (most likely) have to be more severe but (I believe) a form of intelligent life could have arose.

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The Habitable Epoch of the Early Universe- 15 million years after the Big Bang [View all] n2doc Dec 2013 OP

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I don't like the "Anthropic principle", I feel it's a NON problem... Locut0s Dec 2013 #4

I can't see how it's anything else but. "Universe is the way it is so WE can exist" idwiyo Dec 2013 #5

Sort of... Locut0s Dec 2013 #6

or that the Universe is like Shankapotomus Dec 2013 #8

Does this really argue against the anthropic principle?... Locut0s Dec 2013 #3

Yep....and Venus and Mars could have been teaming with life had the formation of those... BlueJazz Dec 2013 #7