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Originally Posted by Mull
I am not an atheist, or either really religious. However, when you think of the odds of Humans being ... well intelligent life, it makes you wonder.
I don't know how harmful this radiation would be to life here if it made it to earth without the protective wall of plasma, but sometimes it sure seems like something set up protection after protection to allow intelligent life to grow on this one planet in this solar system.
Heck, Jupitar being where it is relative to earth protects earth from a great deal of asteroids from the asteroid belt due to its gravity.
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On the flip side, if we didn't have radiation shielding, would life have evolved to be less vulnerable to radiation, say with better DNA repair mechanisms? Life evolved on Earth to match the conditions of Earth.
What I find interesting is how similar all life on earth is, from how all cells make energy to how all animals have four limbs. How would life look if it evolved somewhere else?