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@@0664mont The ending said this guy admitted all his stories are about making all humans captain America and Superman for the last ten years. He saw Star Wars and thought it wasn’t fair that all humans were not Jedi or something like that. He gave us super hero powers by lying about our gravity and made us freakishly strong. He thinks asteroids are clustered around each other like a maze but they are miles apart but Han Solo flew in asteroid field right? Therefore from this moment forward all asteroids are like that. It would be asking far too much for a writer who writes about space knows what space actually looks like I guess.

I think the point is that Earth is near the limit, as per our current tech, to successfully launch a space ship/rocket outside of its gravitational boundries. We also have to remember that a planet just 1.5-3 times the size of Earth would have up to 100% of our gravity at what would be that world's sea level. So, a 150lbs/68kg person would actually be forced, just by their own bodyweight, to support 300lbs/136kg. The same would go for launching aircraft and spacecraft or rockets from these "super earths" as they are called. This means the bigger you make the rocket to launch into space, the more it weighs. But to even get off of the planet, the species would need a big rocket in modern terms. Its kind of a paradox at that point. To succeed, you would need something that would make it impossible. I think this is why Earth, in these stories, is considered high gravity. As I said before, it is at the top end of gravity, with current tech, that would make travelling to space, or even flight, increasingly difficult. As for the "deathworld" part, it probably could have been true for early humanity or like species that were mainly herbivores and were actual prey for critters like cave bears, sabertooths, giant birds and giant wolves dating from prehistory and the last Ice Ages, where humans and other hominidae species eventually evolved. Another thing that possibly makes Earth unique, at least in the last 300-400 million years are the ocean currents. Before this time, with the continents being mostly concentrated in one area, there was one huge ocean, little to no ocean ice, and it is assumed that currents didn't circulate water as they have in relatively recent history. This lead to, what was found to be massive layers of bacteria and single celled organisms on the planet. If I remember correctly, they released massive amounts of methane and other foul fumes at first, then as they evolved to conduct photosynthesis, massive amounts of oxygen were released into the air and water. At that time, maybe 2.3-2.5 billion years ago, the air on the planet would not even be breathable to most creatures today, and there would have been little to no oxygen in the water. I think this summary explains it better- "The Great Oxidation Event (GOE), also known as the Oxygen Catastrophe or Oxygen Holocaust, was a period between 2.5 and 2.3 billion years ago when oxygen began to accumulate in Earth's atmosphere. This event was caused by cyanobacteria in the ocean producing oxygen through photosynthesis. The oxygen gradually built up in the water and eventually escaped into the atmosphere, where it reacted with methane and displaced it. This led to oxygen becoming a major component of the atmosphere, and the first mass extinction on Earth as anaerobic bacteria were killed." - (AI Overview) At that time, 80% of life, exclusively single celled species, died out. Also, to note is the fact that many iron veins and deposits around the world are a result of that huge layer of bacteria dying or producing oxygen that oxidized iron in the water. Here is some reference- "Banded iron formations are composed of thin alternating layers of chert (a fine-grained form of silica) and iron oxides (magnetite and hematite). Extensive deposits of this rock type are found around the world, almost all of which are more than 1.85 billion years old and most of which were deposited around 2.5 Ga. The iron in banded iron formations is partially oxidized, with roughly equal amounts of ferrous and ferric iron.[31] Deposition of a banded iron formation requires both an anoxic deep ocean capable of transporting iron in soluble ferrous form, and an oxidized shallow ocean where the ferrous iron is oxidized to insoluble ferric iron and precipitates onto the ocean floor.[20] The deposition of banded iron formations before 1.8 Ga suggests the ocean was in a persistent ferruginous state, but deposition was episodic and there may have been significant intervals of euxinia.[32] The transition from deposition of banded iron formations to manganese oxides in some strata has been considered a key tipping point in the timing of the GOE because it is believed to indicate the escape of significant molecular oxygen into the atmosphere in the absence of ferrous iron as a reducing agent.[33]" - (Wikipedia) It is a long read, but I think that you are right about nobody in these mostly AI generated stories paying attention to what could actually make Earth unique. Think about what very specific events, extinctions and conditions would have to occur for such massive iron deposits to oxidize in the ocean? On the same note, look at coal or oil. All of these "natural" elements were created by the mass dying off of specifice life, at certain times under just the right conditions. If Earth is 1 in 10 million planets that could hold life, 1 in a billion that could have intelligent life, it is probably to a factor of 10 that is where it is near a stable star, has its atmosphere, magnetic field, a moon, a tilt, awater/land balance and those three materials that made human technological evolution surge forward.

@@raymondcarter1137 I agree, fantasy is fantasy. This just happens to take place in space.

@@jlawsl heat plus water makes a very nice cradle for life. If anything makes us special it would have to be a vibrant ecosystem with a diverse variety of metals like your oxidation. I fear for future generations to look at those stories as fact. Example: everyone thinks asteroids are like Star Wars including me when in fact they are miles away from other asteroids and logic stands that the movies show them smashing up into each other then obviously they must look like that. Are you sure of the math on the gravity? 300lbs? Seems pretty high because we have an iron core so what if a different planet has nickel or uranium. Can a different core determine gravity and size of a planet?