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> It's almost like it was designed to be perfect…

It’s almost like the ones that aren’t ideal for life don’t tend to have much life to notice that fact.



Well, yeah, that's how it works. On Earth here, we're an oasis of warm thermodynamic blessedness in a sea of frigid brutality.

Be thankful there's no humans on Uranus.


Any life in the universe that evolved on Uranus-style systems will similarly be grateful not to be here on Earth. Their religions might go on about the perfect conditions compared to those scorchingly hot ones closer to the Sun.

Hell, penguins don’t even like the tropics on the same planet.


I don't think there is enough heat energy on Uranus to facilitate the kind of brain that facilitates human-level thinking and behaving. Earth has vigorous blooms of life around our deepsea volcanic vents, but those life forms are not going to reach any where near our level of evolution. Its environment is too limited.




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