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Originally Posted by PHC1
Is that why we keep spending some serious $$$ on looking for potential habitable exoplanets and in our rather recent beginnings have already compiled a pretty impressive list of them? That's just in our "neighborhood". While true that it is NOT certain if they actually are but it also NOT true that the are NOT. Time will tell. 
We can't even get a good grasp on what has transpired on our planet over the billions of years yet. Looking at Antarctica today, it is a lonely, desolate place covered in ice.... Yet fossils reveal it was once a lush and green place full of life. |
We spend money looking for habitable exoplanets because we are looking for habitable exoplanets. If thats what people want to fund, so be it..