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Why Earth's life-friendly climate makes it exceptional - and what that means for the likelihood of finding intelligent extraterrestrial life We've long fantasized about finding life on planets other than our very own. Yet once we notice the huge expanses beyond our solar system, it remains clear that Globe is exceptional. The question is: Why? In Lucky World, astrobiologist David Waltham argues that Earth's climate stability is why is it uniquely in a position to support life, and it is nothing in short supply of luck that made such conditions possible. The four-billion-year stretch out of good weather that our globe has experienced is statistically so improbable that chances are slim that people will ever face intelligent extraterrestrial others. Citing the factors that typically control a planet's average temperature - like the size of its moon, as well as the pace of the Universe's development - Waltham troubles the prevailing clinical consensus that Earth-like planets have natural stabilizing mechanisms that allow life to flourish. A energetic exploration of the superstars above and the bottom beneath our toes, Lucky World seamlessly weaves the storyline of Globe and the worlds orbiting other superstars to provide us a new perspective of the amazing role chance performs in our devote the universe.
