habitability – Uncommon Descent

Exoplanets Extraterrestrial life Fine tuning Intelligent Design

Recent finding: The “water world” exoplanets are not habitable ocean planets

So, it turns out, even if there IS lots of water in a solar system, that doesn’t add up to habitability either. Talk about Rare Earth and Privileged Planet.

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