Our Solar System Appears To Be Uniquely Capable Of Supporting Life
Over 60 years ago the Drake Equation was created not to actually calculate the number of intelligent ET races in the Milky Way, but to "stimulate conversation" at the first meeting of SETI the Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence in 1961. One of the claimed factors that would have resulted in intelligent life forming everywhere was that there would be other planetary systems like ours that had formed over the past 13 billion years of our Universe, and because people took the Drake Equation as something serious, countless science fiction franchises were formed and spun off, all based around the concept that life must have been created in many places just in our galaxy alone. The Drake Equation calculates the percent of stars in the Milky Way galaxy that are assumed to be class G stars, similar to our Sun, and then starts making wild assumptions. One key assumption is that our solar system must be typical, and that we would eventually find plane...