clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
> Warp schrieb:
> >
> >   A moon which causes tides, and plate tectonics also help in the process
> > of life forming. Even if a planet is otherwise ideal, if it lacks those,
> > it will be much less likely for life to form.
>
> This is something that I find particularly intriguing about the place we
> live on:
>
> Not the fact that the earth does have a moon. Nor the fact that it is
> the only one the earth does have. Not even the remarkable fact that it's
>   an incredibly huge chunk of rock for such a small planet.
>
> No, what's most astonishing about this all is that its apparent size
> matches so well with that of the sun.
>
> I can only think of two possible conclusions for this:
>
> (a) It may be due to the anthropic principle, i.e. there might be some
> hidden mechanism in the creation of intelligent life that requires this
> extraordinary property.
>
> (b) It was /designed/ to be this way.


(c) Lucky coincidence, since it did not and will not always appear to be the
same size of the sun.

-Reactor

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