this post was submitted on 09 Nov 2025
33 points (76.2% liked)

Astronomy

6127 readers
209 users here now

A community for sharing astronmy-related news, content, research, photographs, etc.

When sharing photographs and articles, please make an effort to include source URLs.

founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
 

We just live too far apart.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Or maybe we actually are the first interstellar civilisation. With features like Jupiter and especially our giant ass moon seeming to be pretty rare we still don't know what it really takes to make a planet habitable. Let alone habitable in such a way that it creates intelligent life.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

The counter is that there are a shitload of planets out there. 🤷🏻