<story><title>Planetary &apos;autopsies&apos; indicate worlds like Earth common in the cosmos</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-space-planets/planetary-autopsies-indicate-worlds-like-earth-common-in-the-cosmos-idUSKBN1WW2M7</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vfc1</author><text>A possible explanation of why we haven&amp;#x27;t found anything is because intelligent live once developed will quickly overload the ecosystem and start causing things like climate change and quickly make the planet inhabitable, this could all happen in less than 2 million years which is nothing on the cosmological scale.&lt;p&gt;There was running water on Mars and it&amp;#x27;s within the goldilocks zone. Probably Venus too, both those planets had stable conditions for the emergence of life for billions of years.&lt;p&gt;Once a species like humans starts spreading like a virus and taking over the ecosystem, it can easily go downhill very fast (cosmologically speaking).</text></comment>
<story><title>Planetary &apos;autopsies&apos; indicate worlds like Earth common in the cosmos</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-space-planets/planetary-autopsies-indicate-worlds-like-earth-common-in-the-cosmos-idUSKBN1WW2M7</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>surfsvammel</author><text>Even if there are Earth like planets everywhere, we don’t know the probability that life appears spontaneously. Right?&lt;p&gt;How does this change our outlook if one assumes The Great Filter hypothesis? Does this lower or increase that such a filter would be behind us or before us?</text></comment>