Honestly. What are the chances that in the entire universe, there is no ecosystem that has led to the evolution of an organism indistinguishable from our Earth cats?

[–] primrosepathspeedrun@anarchist.nexus 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

We havent found a second one that supports life long term. Unless they're all getting filtered after life occurs and we just weren't looking when it happened: they probably are not.

Crabs though...

[–] hazl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't think we're capable of looking very far afield, to be fair. Space is pretty big. I read that somewhere.

[–] primrosepathspeedrun@anarchist.nexus 2 points 2 months ago

All the answers here are pretty fucking grim.