nice planet

Striking picture alright, but probably AI generated.

Maybe not. We get similar skies here too.

Earth is too good to be accidental.

John Larkin Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center Lunatic Fringe Electronics

I tend to think it *is* accidental, but we've evolved to find it good.

Jeroen Belleman

We have water at its triple point, and that makes rivers, clouds, fog, snow, ice, rainbows. Water is itself a very cool chemical.

Our atmosphere is thick enough to support flight but clear enough to see the stars.

Gravity is just right for playing tennis but not being squashed flat.

Radiation levels are not deadly.

Not bad.

John Larkin Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center Lunatic Fringe Electronics

Our ancestors have lived here for a couple of billion years. About 500 million years ago they had evolved to the point where they could move about.

It's not exactly surprising that subsequent evolution has left us well-adapted to this environment.

A few of us have got the point where we can appreciate what was going on while we got there. Some haven't.