Alt text: They’re up there with coral islands, lightning, and caterpillars turning into butterflies.

  • Moidialectica [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    18 hours ago

    ‘lined up perfectly’ is a stretch, considering it’s safe to assume these ‘perfect’ conditions have appeared more than quadrillions of times within the universe

    …and of course we’re in the darkest parts of that universe, so we will never be able to experience other similar worlds. Damn.

    • w3dd1e@lemmy.zip
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      17 hours ago

      Oh for sure. The universe is too big for it to not have happened elsewhere. I’m not saying it’s unique, just rare.

      For me, it was the fact that the Earth is tilted at just the right angle that sort of blew my mind. Too much one way or another, we wouldn’t have seasons or day/night cycles.

      From under, other planets have been identified with the potential for life, but don’t have the tilt or the moon.