[Steely Tom]

The mixture of characteristics that made Earth hospitable to carbon-based life for tens of millions of years is incredibly unlikely.

There are more ways for a planet to not be suitable for life than we can possibly imagine.

Arthur Clarke, in one of his novels, imagined a planet baked at extremely high temperatures and powerful blasts of high-energy radiation by a huge, nearby sun, on which strange creatures existed as patterns etched in stone; they had intelligence, but required ten of our years to complete a single thought.

[Red Badger]

they had intelligence, but required ten of our years to complete a single thought.

Oh, a planet full of liberals?...................