[Heartlander]

What are the odds of all of this occurring as a cosmic accident?

Cosmic Constants

• Gravitational force constant
  
• Electromagnetic force constant
  
• Strong nuclear force constant
  
• Weak nuclear force constant
  
• Cosmological constant

Initial Conditions and “Brute Facts”

• Initial distribution of mass energy
  
• Ratio of masses for protons and electrons
  
• Velocity of light
  
• Mass excess of neutron over proton
• Principle of quantization
  
• Pauli Exclusion Principle

Solar System Conditions

• Near inner edge of circumstellar habitable zone
  
• Low-eccentricity orbit outside spin-orbit and giant planet resonances
  
• A few, large Jupiter-mass planetary neighbors in large circular orbits
  
• Outside spiral arm of galaxy
  
• Near co-rotation circle of galaxy, in circular orbit around galactic center
  
• Within the galactic habitable zone
  
• Human advancement occurs during the cosmic habitable age

“Local” Planetary Conditions

• Steady plate tectonics with right kind of geological interior
  
• Right amount of water in crust
  
• Sun is the right type star for life
  
• Large moon with right rotation period
  
• Stable atmosphere
  
• Proper concentration of sulfur
• Ability to create fire
  
• Right planetary mass
  
• Unique solar eclipse
  
• Cosmic shield
  
• Information rich biosphere

Human Life

• Origin of life hurdles
  
• DNA has; Functional Information - Encoder - Error Correction - Decoder
• DNA contains multi-layered information that reads both forward and backwards - DNA stores data more efficiently than anything we've created - and a majority of DNA contains metainformation
  
• Complex pieces of molecular machinery in the cell
• Human body
  
• The information enigma
  
• Morality
  
• Consciousness
  
• Free will
  
• Justice
  
• Perception
  
• Human language
  
• Recognizing art in nature
  

[Fiddlstix]

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[Nateman]

That link about the ability to make fire missed a very important point. Oxygen is a very reactive element. Like Florine you would not expect it to be found outside of some compound. Yet it makes up 20% of our air! It's there because plants pump it out as a waste product. It takes quite a bit of energy to bust up water and yet plants throw away the oxygen rather than find some use for it . It's an incredibly bizarre waste of of energy which animals evolved to take advantage of. Why were plants locked in to do something so wasteful and counterproductive? (Esp. seeing as how those animals eat the plants with all that oxygen fueling it!)

[mabarker1]

I only see 1 missing item:

My Etch-a-Sketch !!!! Gotta Plot the Course Ya know.

JK - I was 8 when We moved to Houston and it was really cool to be a Kid in Houston with all of the Apollo Missions going on! I built a Saturn V Rocket model. That puppy was like 4’ tall. Wish I still had the DEXTERITY to do it again.

Moon Ping