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The SID poked around the galactic neighborhood for several decades and they explored dozens of star systems. Planets like Earth are fairly rare. Much of what we’ve found “out there” is big gas balls, frozen blocks of rock and ice, molten blobs and quite a few worlds that would be fine but for one thing.
That one thing differs from world to world. The SID program found several planets with liquid water and stable environments but they were too large and their gravity too dense for much to survive there.
They found worlds that were fine but they had no iron core or magnetic shield. Life would have a difficult time surviving the cosmic rays on such worlds.
There was a series of planets that seemed acceptable but their systems were too busy with asteroids. Protecting the planet from the constant bombardment would be too expensive.
The SID found evidence that life had started at least one time on most of these worlds, but most likely was wiped out by a major impact. That was humanitie’s first understanding that life grows anywhere it can in the Milky Way. It’s just that to make people it takes a special world. Earth was such a place. Harappa was not.
Tomorrow: Why the SID might have bypassed Harappa
Never mix red wine and Oodo.
Philip Normer
Kushan Year 88
Earth Year 2480
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