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minus-squareobvs@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·9 hours agoWe make a mistake by assuming that life forms would likely be at the same scale as us. Larger planets would likely develop life forms appropriate for those planets instead of appropriate for ours.
minus-squareouRKaoS@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 hours agoMost of the life we see on Earth isn’t even our size! Life on earth scales from microscopic bacteria all the way up funguses that have an underground network covering thousands of acres. The chances of us finding life on another planet is pretty slim, the chance of that life looking like us is astronomically miniscule.
minus-squareembed_me@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·6 hours agoDamn. As if the atmosphere wasn’t enough of a hurdle already, they gots dumpys too
We make a mistake by assuming that life forms would likely be at the same scale as us. Larger planets would likely develop life forms appropriate for those planets instead of appropriate for ours.
Most of the life we see on Earth isn’t even our size!
Life on earth scales from microscopic bacteria all the way up funguses that have an underground network covering thousands of acres.
The chances of us finding life on another planet is pretty slim, the chance of that life looking like us is astronomically miniscule.
Damn. As if the atmosphere wasn’t enough of a hurdle already, they gots dumpys too