Re: Our rocky solar system may be rare

From: Brian Manning Delaney (bdelaney@infinitefaculty.org)
Date: Fri Sep 10 1999 - 13:30:15 MDT


Brian Atkins wrote:
>
> http://www.newscientist.com/ns/19990911/newsstory8.html

>From article:

> If the theory is right, it makes the
> Solar System more unique than many scientists
> would like.

Personally, I'd be delighted to find out we're unique, perhaps
even absolutely so. It greatly lowers the odds that we'll
destroy ourselves. (Apparent absence of aliens has many possible
causes, though.)

Brian.

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Brian Manning Delaney
<b-delaney@uchicago.edu>


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