Science
Life on Earth didn’t get wiped out because of ‘luck’, study suggests – The Independent
Scientists found that only nine out of 8,700 planets could survive for as long as the Earth has
Planet Earth has managed to remain habitable for so long because of one simple reason: good luck.
Researchers at the University of Sourthhampton carried out mass simulations of climate evolution of 100,000 randomly generated planets.
Each planet was simulated 100 times with random climate-altering events occurring each time in order to see if habitable life could be sustained for three billion years like on Earth.
Of these planets, 9 per cent (8,700) were successful at least once but, of those,…
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