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We've Never Seen Anything Like The Solar System. Is It a Freak in Space?
"But one small detail stands out like a sore thumb. We've found nothing else out there like our own Solar System."
"This has led some to conclude that our home star and its brood could be outliers in some way – perhaps the only planetary system of its kind."
(Well I wonder why?)
"By extension, this could mean life itself is an outlier; that the conditions that formed Earth and its veneer of self-replicating chemistry are difficult to replicate."
(No kidding? Interesting.)
"If you're just looking at the numbers, the outlook is grim. By a large margin, the most numerous exoplanets we've identified to date are of a type not known to be conducive to life: giants and subgiants, of the gas and maybe ice variety."
"Most exoplanets we've seen so far orbit their stars very closely, practically hugging them; so close that their sizzling temperatures would be much higher than the known habitability range."
"We know now that there's a lot more variety out there in the galaxy than what we see in our home system. However, it's important not to assume that what we can currently detect is all that the Milky Way has to offer. If there's anything out there like our own Solar System, it's very possibly beyond our detection capabilities."
"Things like the Solar System are very hard for us to find, they're a bit beyond us technologically at the minute," Horner said.
"The terrestrial planets would be very unlikely to be picked up from any of the surveys we've done so far. You're very unlikely to be able to find a Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars around a star like the Sun."
(Psalm 74:16-18
The day is Yours, and also the night; You established the moon and the sun.
You set all the boundaries of the earth;
You made the summer and winter. Remember how the enemy has mocked You, O LORD, how a foolish people has spurned Your name.…)
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