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Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: John Savard <quadibloc@servername.invalid> Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: Relevant - Plate Tectonics Might Only Occur on 0.003% of Planets. That Makes Earth Very Special Indeed. Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2024 07:22:54 -0600 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 23 Message-ID: <8fsf8j9tesnh3ei01qtjh4c6d0n5j0klph@4ax.com> References: <vtAhO.12806$%gXc.7060@fx14.iad> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2024 15:22:56 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="5d0ff3409a8f381e106f0b2c4db1fbd6"; logging-data="3478607"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18EzZ5vaO657PVZ6Mmyvs9kgaW0k6f4J5w=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:tvRJUy4UqROn4AGvB9X9MQHGRh0= X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 3.3/32.846 Bytes: 2074 I remember back in the day it being claimed that Earth's very unique giant Moon may have been essential for the development of life on Earth along the lines it took. So this claim about plate tectonics reminds me of that. But I don't see this as bad news, if it were true. It would just mean that we don't life in the kind of claustrophobically overcrowded Univese that we see on the TV show Star Trek, and I would be glad of that. By building O'Neill-type space habitats, or through terraforming, we could still establish a human presence on star systems which have rocky planets, even though those planets are all lifeless and don't have breathable atmospheres. It's to the better that, if we gain the ability to travel among the stars, that we won't find that every place to which we might expand is already taken... and to the better that we aren't going to be conquered, enslaved, or destroyed by vastly superior aliens as soon as we start to get ourselves noticed. Which TV and FM radio might already have done. John Savard