humans came about pretty late in the earth's habitable window but very early compared to most future stars. i think from most future stars you can only reach the local group instead of the trillions of galaxies we can maybe reach. what's with that
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Replying to @VesselOfSpirit
There's an argument that we are basically right in the middle of habitable planet years averaged across the universe:https://thegreatatuin.wordpress.com/2017/01/29/on-the-death-of-planets/ …
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hmm, it looks like it's at least more of an open question than i thought
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so it sounds like there will be hugely more planet years but not hugely more planets and according to the post author not hugely more living planet years? and then if the great filter is something involving properties of planets, it means we're somewhat typical?
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ah yes, the "not hugely more living planet years" is what you said. but even without the argument from the post, it could be the case that all the long lived planets just happen not to be suitable for life, right?
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i don't get what's supposed to happen to all the gas in scenarios like this where star formation mostly ends earlyhttps://thegreatatuin.wordpress.com/2016/09/25/space-and-time-part-ii/ …
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it's also interesting to think about what happens after there are stars (given that that will be a much longer time still)https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/37920/could-life-evolve-in-the-degenerate-era-of-the-universe …
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