[reintarnation]

It’s something of a miracle that life on our planet has been left to evolve without fatal interruption for billions of years.

The dinosaurs would like to have a word with the author.

[Pontiac]

The dinosaurs would like to have a word with the author.

I believe the intention of this statement is to suggest that it is unlikely that ANY life exist on the planet.

But I assume that your statement is meant to be humorous.

[Telepathic Intruder]

Fatal, meaning the end of all life. That almost happened twice, by the way, when there was too little CO2 in the atmosphere, not too much. The oceans froze and in one case only 1% of the remaining terrestrial life survived.

[Scarlett156]

The Earth’s history seems miraculous because it is miraculous. Look at all the planets around us - with all the great learning we have, we now have certainty that these planets are barren of life, except for here and there maybe a tardigrade from a crashed Earth drone.

Jupiter and Saturn with their gravity consume comets and asteroids - things orbiting the Sun that might destroy us. The many craters on our Moon give evidence that it too shields the Earth from impacts.

And there’s our atmosphere that burns up or deflects lots of space garbage that might otherwise cause lots of problems.

We are truly fortunate. And yeah, the article stupidly states that life has continued on Earth, blah, blah - NO IT HASN’T. Life has nearly been destroyed - more than 90% wiped out - on Earth a couple of times according to the geologic record. Human civilization has risen and fallen - humans have nearly been obliterated a couple of times. Our current civilization is less than a thousand years old. That’s nothing in geologic terms.

But humanity is according to science more than a million years old. (Budgies have been around in their present form, apparently, for 6 million years or so. Those are your tiny pet parrots that you can buy from a pet store for about $15. They’re little, tiny dinosaurs that can fly and highly intelligent for something with a brain the size of a pencil eraser. We have four of them.)

We’re not the strongest. We’re not the most aggressive. We don’t even have the biggest brains. There are other species more adaptable than we are. Sometimes we’re just limping along, evolutionarily speaking. But then we seem to gain an advantage and make it through somehow - and then there’s the issue of our awesome luck.

It’s almost like someone is looking out for us.

[Verginius Rufus]

The dinosaurs would like to have a word with the author.

Only avian dinosaurs are left. He could talk to a parrot.