Given the sheer number of planets out there, and the law of big numbers, "Weird" planets should be common enough to see... just not common enough to repeat their weirdness.
What if we are the pinnacle of all evolution everywhere every when and this comment will get me the Nobel Peace Prize because we all realize we're so important we should never hurt each other again or be greedy
Would a base just a little way into the dark side of the terminator be temperate enough for humans with reasonable protection? Or is it still too extreme even then?
Dunno about the "oxygen is a metal" perspective, but Earth is incredibly weird in terms of planetary geology.
Huge iron-nickel core, very large tidally locked satellite...and it got that way from an early massive impact? To say nothing of plate tectonics! Absolutely bizarre.
"There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened."
No shit were the weird ones. Have you heard the odds of a planet being able to inhabit life? It’s one in, like, a trillion or something. And don’t get me started on a planet hosting intelligent life, that has to be even lower. It’s a scientific and mathematical miracle that we’re all alive.
