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4. So I recently watched a short history of life on Earth on YouTube and learned many interesting
Mon Oct 23, 2023, 10:25 PM
Oct 2023

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things I never knew before. For example, Jupiter is kind of like a big brother protecting earth from meteor strikes. Jupiter’ is big, so big that 1,300 Earths could fit inside of it. Jupiters immense size and a gravitational pull attracts meteors that otherwise might wipe out Earth or us. So many random events had to occur to make conditions on Earth conducive to life from its distance from the sun to the spinning on its axis after colliding with the moon that the fact we exists at all is miraculous. So we are all miracles. I just wish we could act like it

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