Planet Earth’s good fortune to stay habitable for billions of years is partly due to luck, according to a new study.
A mass simulation experiment suggests that the maximum planets would not have been able to cope with adjustments in their climate while maintaining life during Earth’s 3 billion years, scientists said.
Researchers at the University of Southampton have placed a hundred, 000 randomly generated planets through the effects of climate replace a hundred times each.
Only 8,700 people, or less than 10%, took the course at least once, according to the journal Nature Communications Earth and Environment.
And almost all (8,000) finished the era less than 50 times out of 100, while more than part (about 4,500) controlled less than 10 times out of 100.
Earth formula science scientist Professor Toby Tyrrell said the effects indicated that possibility is a primary factor in determining whether planets, such as Earth, can continue to feed life for billions of years.
He said: “A climate that is often solid and livable on Earth is quite confusing. Our neighbors, Mars and Venus, have no habitable temperatures, even if Mars ever had them.
“Earth not only has an acceptable temperature today, but has maintained it at all times for 3 to 4 billion years, an ordinary geological period.
“We can now that the Earth has remained conducive to life for so long thanks, at least in part, to luck.
“For example, if a larger asteroid had hit Earth, or done so at another time, then Earth would have lost its habitability.
“To put it another way, if an intelligent observer had been provided on primitive Earth while life was evolving for the first time and able to calculate the chances that the planet would remain habitable for the next billion years, the possibly Good calculation, we have revealed very bad opportunities. “
He said these low chances mean that the chances of locating habitable “twin lands” in the universe are also very slim.