This planet is so damn cozy<3

Oh! Oh! Let's wreck it by polluting the hell out of it :3

For now

Which is why a 13 month calendar all having 28 days would have made more sense

And from what I have heard on science podcasts, the moon is, and has been, and still will be, moving away from the earth. Making the perfect solar eclipse only for a segment of the earth's history.

This is rather as if you imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, 'This is an interesting world I find myself in — an interesting hole I find myself in — fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!' -Douglas Adams

Lines up perfectly ... for life as we know it. See also: The Anthropic Principle

But in the vastness of space, it was practically guaranteed to happen somewhere. There are a set of criteria that allow for the evolution of life (as we know it) and it was going to happen somewhere, the fact that it happened here is no more awesome than it happening 3 galaxies over.

I know the feeling you are describing and the words to describe what i am trying to say are hard for me to grasp.

Its like in a film where the hero survives seemingly impossible odds and people watching say "no way, thats impossible" and can't enjoy the film because its too unbelievable. I say no! This is a story about the one almost impossible time all these things happened. Thats the point. Yes its hard to believe, but thats what makes it awesome.

So the earth being here and humanity and all other animals evolving here is just the time in the impossibly vast universe that the "stars aligned" and the fact that we are experiencing it is just expected.

Look up Douglas Adams’ puddle analogy?

“If you imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, 'This is an interesting world I find myself in — an interesting hole I find myself in — fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!"

How does having a moon and the tilted axis contribute to evolution?

If only we could cap our carbon emissions enough to keep it that way. But at least the top one percent are making money

Damn, now I get why cartographers and the like always try to make it prettier in post!

Never thought I'd be body shaming the Earth, but here we are 🤷

Honestly, whenever I think about this, I get my tinfoil hat moment. Life being created by statistical probability and chance, well ok. Life being created and people with conscientiousness rising up at exactly the time this one planet has this perfect orbital distance - give me that tinfoil.

And the sci-fi cliche is to have enormous moons filling the sky, but realistically, ours is comically large. Even planets in our solar system mostly see moons the way we see those planets. You get a dot.

Hearts in their head. Males carry the babies.

They're insane!

Magitech.

Like other elements, just a bit farther reach with their fields. Fun fact, nothing is solid. When you try and touch something, it's actually just forces against forces. Atoms are primarily made of nothing.

The Sun also creates tides, just not as strong as lunar tides. So we would still have tides, even if we had no Moon.

It's unlikely that there are many exo planets with a moon as big as the Moon. Much more likely to have small ones like Mars. Mercury, Venus and Mars are all great examples of bad shit that can happen to planets: Tidally locked + too close to the sun, rolled over on the side, and finally Mars too small to maintain a molten core and magnetic field. The Moon helps avoid the Venus situation and maybe the Mars problem.

Do you think "big enough moon" is going to be similarly rare to "liquid water"? We're getting better and better at finding planets. Not sure how we'd find their moons though.