No it’s all the varied and many freak incidences required, at the auspicious time for those things to happen.
Even new plateau requires increasingly singular events, and sequence of events.
Every quantum jump, required increasingly vanishing odds.
Mind you I’m not saying it’s impossible, I’m say it just might be possible that intelligent “civilized” god-like organisms like us, might quite possibly not have happened before.
You’re telling me you believe it’s definite - whereas my life long dive into Earth’s Evolution has dissolved the simple certainty I once held, and opened the possibly that indeed we are uniquely special. Though I do believe simple forms of life, especially microscopic probably are fairly common.
For instance, towards the end of that video Prof Kipping points out the timing aspect of all this, suns and planetary systems evolve, with limited windows of opportunity opening and then it’s gone.
For instance, it’s only luck that humanity made it past the Stone Age.
I submit,
Okay and Earth is some 4,543 million years old.
That doesn’t make sense, their skills were inherited from dealing with Earth’s specific environments and learned to survive through extreme conditions - that they are able to survive in space for a while, and endure the harshest conditions for a while, says nothing about their ability to evolve or thrive on our moon or another planet without Earth’s preconditions.
Everything you need (and want) to know about tardigrades.
Lauren Robertson - October 18, 2022… Tardigrades have been known to survive:
- Low temperatures of 0.05 kelvins (-272.95 degrees Celsius or functional absolute zero)
- High temperatures of 150 degrees Celsius
- Pressures of 40,000 kilopascals
- The burning ultraviolet radiation of space
- Being shot from a high-speed gun (traveling at nearly 3,000 feet per second and the impact of 1.14 gigapascals of pressure)
- Being stored in a freezer for 30 years
Despite these impressive stats, it is worth noting that tardigrades are not technically classed as “extremophiles” because they do not thrive in harsh conditions – they simply survive. There is also some confusion between the tardigrade’s sheer hardiness and its ability to live forever.
In reality, tardigrades only have a lifespan of a few months – in the active state. This can (and is) interrupted by long periods where they are (to all intents and purposes) “dead.” But more on that later. …