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What odds? We have an n of 1.


The odds of water, being just at the right distance to the sun, etc i guess

Sure we dont know the chance of life emerging, the symbiotic relationship that provides power for cells, chance of multicells etc.


true! we can't measure exactly... but we're talking trillions of possibilities, at that volume something happening by mistake only once is unlikely




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