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Most Earth-Like Worlds Yet to Be Born, According to Study
Earth came early to the party in the evolving universe. According to a new theoretical study, when our solar system was born 4.6 billion years ago only eight percent of the potentially habitable planets that will ever form in the universe existed.
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Would that make us the Watcher race from Marvel comics universe?
This would make a lot of the problems finding other civilisations in the stars make sense. Like the Drake equation, the Fermi Paradox etc. One the other hand the argument for The Carter Catastrophe says it's unlikely.
This whole concept reminds me of this article. We are literally one out of hundreds of million to win that race and be born, yet we just don't realize the insane amount of layers of odds we had to beat to even exist, starting from the birth of the universe and ending at the race of the tadpoles.
I love the universe
so basically replace every single show and movie we have about aliens to have humans in the role of the aliens and aliens in the role of the humans and suddenly it starts to make sense given how we like to kill each other out of boredom or whatever. Pretty sure we'd happily be going around the galaxy to new earths to kill and enslave the locals.