Between phosphorus being rare and oxygen being n
The Oxygen Bottleneck: Technological Alien Worlds Need Fire
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Re: The Oxygen Bottleneck: Technological Alien Worlds Need Fire
#12Between phosphorus being rare and oxygen being needed for fire which is needed for tech (but too much oxygen prevents life from evolving through constant forrest fires) I think the Fermi Paradox has been solved.
Also, our sun is freakishly stable.
We are very, very rare.
Re: The Oxygen Bottleneck: Technological Alien Worlds Need Fire
#13The reason that there is exactly enough oxygen to support fire is that life is flammable and burning it uses oxygen...