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It may really need a planet to be at the right time, at the right place with it.

Life is not just a thing that's by itself.

Biology needs its container.

And here it's the planet Earth.

So you cannot take the planet outside of life.

They're together.

That's the number one thing.

Are we clear on this?

Yes.

Number two is that life is, we don't know to what degree it's a fluke accident or to what degree it was determined to be the way it is now, right?

We don't have much understanding of the chance and necessity.

Because you only have a sample of one.

Exactly.

I mean, we can play in the lab.

We can create some conditions and replay in reverse and try to do these evolution experiments like we do.

But fundamentally, we lack that understanding of to what degree life is able to recapitulate itself.

And three, again, we don't know.

Maybe there will be other planets, and that's our hope, right?

That where we look and study what life can do.

And I will tell you this, and this may actually blow your mind,