tectonic planet are rare

  • Dem Bosain
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    6 months ago

    Why would they contact us? Kopernik got a lot wrong, but he was right in that we are nothing special. A species advanced enough to contact other lifeforms must run across planets in various states of ruin 12 a day.

    • SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      6 months ago

      I think it’s fundamentally interesting to see other biology. Just look at us trying to catalogue every possible life on earth, no matter how mundane.

    • BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee
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      6 months ago

      What if we are the only ones obsessed with alien and space travels? What if there are quite a few aliens, but they are busy eating fruit and sleeping in the sun.