I believe that you are referencing the "Anthropic Principle" and/or "Anthropic Bias" - and perhaps even specifically to Nick Bostrom's paper titled "Are You Living in a Simulation."
https://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.html
Regards,
I am somewhat with the anthropic principle however I wasn’t really pointing towards that in particular.
I was talking about the odds, the chance of Earth getting hit again by another extinction event asteroid. Earth’s had four or five extinction events in the 4.45 billion year existence of earth (as determined by radiometric dating). The moon has some impressive cratering. We have erosion and could have had similar instances of cratering, so we’ll never know, but the moon provides a good modke of note.
Also, as The Milky Way travels through space we are coming into areas of space that the Milky Way has never been in and there’s no telling what kind of debris is out there waiting for us to come across its path or vice versa.
But I’m betting on volcanic, seismic activity, tectonic plate subduction, inevitable weather... Before a sizable asteroid strike. Given the amount of time involved and the amount of space we travel through and the amount of debris in that space. It has to be close to inevitable.
When? There are geological markers.