alt Hacker NewsI love this fact.
Also: life on earth is almost as old as the universe itself, within the same order of magnitude. 4.1 GYA (billion years ago) vs 13.8 GYA. We're old and intelligence is hard.
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yread • yesterday at 6:36 PM
That's not that early, no? There was probably enough C, H, N, O, P, S, Na atoms for life to start 10B years ago. You probably couldnt rely on iron being everywhere though but that's not such a hard requirement.
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Ericson2314 • yesterday at 4:10 PM
Yes I love it too, wish more people appreciated it
I think there is a theory that we’re not seeing any aliens simply because life on Earth started so early.