Category: Rare Earth
Hope for Mars Life Is Dashed Again
Subsequent landers discovered a high concentration of perchlorates in the soil. Perchlorates are chlorinated salts, often used in fireworks.
Plate Tectonics and Scientific Discovery
Plate tectonics is important for advanced life in multiple ways and planets with plate tectonics are very rare.
Study: Geological Habitability Parameters Imply Earth is Special and Advanced Life Extremely Rare
One thing that is likely to get some pushback is the study’s claim that modern-style plate tectonics on Earth did not commence until the Neoproterozoic.
Earth and Mars — A Rare Gem and a Sharp Contrast
Apparently, simple living organisms must exist for eons on a planet before more advanced life can thrive.
In Aurora Borealis, Scientific and Aesthetic Design Arguments Meet
You appreciate the aurora borealis or aurora australis because you were not created by strictly material evolutionary processes.