It really amazes me the number of things that had to go exactly right to allow life to form on Earth.
First the universe exists. Our star is just the right size and temperature. Earth is just the right distance from it. The moon exists and is just the right size and has just the right orbit. The Earth has just the right gravity. The climate is just right, more or less. There is enough water. The planet is the right temperature inside. The elements work together the way they do. Jupiter exists and is where it is. The scattered disk exists. Neptune exists and messes with the scattered disk. The Earth is made of just the right materials at the right consistencies at the right layers. Earth had the right kind of volcanoes in its early days. The solar system is where it is in the galaxy. The sun's traversal through the galaxy is exactly the way it is. The Oort Cloud probably exists. The list goes on. If any of those things had been different, then *poof*, we probably wouldn't be here trying to figure out why we are here ... and I would really like scientists to figure that out. On 6/11/2012 1:12 PM, GMoney wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 12:07 PM, Cameron Childress<[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> I'm fairly certain it would have predated life. Not sure either though. >> > > Quick search yielded this: > > How old is the Moon? Almost the entire Solar System formed 4.6 billion > years ago, when the solar nebula collapsed. But astronomers think that the > Moon formed later than that, when a Mars-sized protoplanet smashed into the > Earth. The debris from the collision splashed into orbit around the Earth > and then reformed into the Moon, which still orbits us today. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:351875 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
