The Rock That Built Life

[Binary_Bark]

What made Earth the planet that life chose? It's a question scientists have wrestled with for decades, and the answers are rarely simple. Distance from the Sun matters, liquid water matters and a magnetic field that deflects lethal radiation matters. But a new study published in the journal Terra Nova adds something unexpected to that list…. the slow, geological rise of the continents themselves, and a semi precious gemstone most people know from jewellery shops.

The Rock That Built Life

Life didn't just happen on Earth, a new study suggests that the slow, grinding rise of our planet's continents more than 3.7 billion years ago may have done something extraordinary. Instead it carefully calibrated the chemistry of the ancient oceans to create precisely the conditions life needed...

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[RiaX]

I think the main thing is long term stability

 

[Binary_Bark]

I think the main thing is long term stability

To pharaphrase George Carlin "The earth is fine, the people however are fvcked"

 

[dabean]

It’s all a matter of perspective, time wise.

Rocks versus fruit flies.

 

[Jean Claude Vaaldamme]

InB4 someone Kumbaya