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pavlov on Oct 18, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Animals We Ate into Extinction

Maybe it's a variation of the anthropic principle? Earth is not a Venus simply because we're here to observe it.

We don't (yet) have data about climates on Earth-like planets in other solar systems. It could be that Earth is an extreme outlier in having a stable climate system.

jacobush on Oct 18, 2017 [–]

Yes and no - I think it is life that is the stabilising factor. Venus probably never had any. Also it's much closer to the sun.

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