finished this, fantastic book, I have to admit I always subscribed to the theory that it was arrogant to assume that we were the only planet that harbors life due to the size of the universe but one dude puts forward an argument that made me realize just how wrong I could be

say there are 400 billion stars in the Milky Way Galaxy, suppose life's origin needs a specific sequence of ten critical precise chemical reactions (an underestimate) and each one has a probability of occurring in the habitability window of, say, one in a hundred then the combined probability for all ten steps to occur is one in a hundred billion billion, that would leave the odds of life in the Milky Way pretty low.

There is also mention of the zero one infinity rule which I've read about before, basically the only three numbers that matter in anything are zero one infinity

its an interesting book man, I got a bit bogged down with the repetition in the final third of it but still great, I'll probably just return to this every now and again and read a chapter whilst I'm on the shitter, there is a lot of info to take in after just one read

I'll be starting this soon, I might take a few days off from the books, I've been hammering them for a while now



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