Re: Relevant - Plate Tectonics Might Only Occur on 0.003% of Planets. That Makes Earth Very Special Indeed.

On 7/4/2024 9:54 AM, a425couple wrote:
> Big DEAL !!
> So many times greats like Heinlein and Silverberg have written
> about us going to exoplanets, and it being like Earth.
> Sorry,,,, NO!
> 
> from
> https://www.universetoday.com/167659/plate-tectonics-might-only-occur-on-0-003-of-planets-that-makes-earth-very-special-indeed/
> 
> Plate tectonics: Image Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center 
> Scientific Visualization Studio
> POSTED ONJULY 2, 2024 BY SCOTT ALAN JOHNSTON
> 
> Plate Tectonics Might Only Occur on 0.003% of Planets. That Makes Earth 
> Very Special Indeed.
> Plate tectonics, oceans, and continents might just be the secret 
> ingredients for complex life on Earth. And if these geological features 
> are rare elsewhere in the universe, then perhaps that explains why we 
> haven’t yet discovered intelligent alien life. New research from 
> American and Swiss Earth scientists suggests that these ingredients 
> represent missing variables in the famous Drake equation, devised more 
> than half a century ago to estimate the chances of finding advanced 
> civilizations in our galaxy. Including these new variables could 
> completely rewrite the probability of detecting intelligent life in the 
> Milky Way.
> 
> Go to the citation for the rest ----.

I went to the citation but couldn't find if that 0.003% is of ALL 
exo-planets or just the Terrestrial/Super-Terrestrial types.

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