Badger3k
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| Quote (Henry J @ Nov. 05 2009,17:18) | Hypothetically, what if octopuses had built a civilization on the sea floor but never acquired the hobby of looking at the night sky? (After all, they'd need instruments for observations that we can make by eyeball.) What would that do to the observability/habitability correlation?
To me that sounds like something that could happen on an Earth-like planet, even if it didn't on this one.
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Being able to see into space is only "privileged" if you consider astronomy and space exploration to be of value. It has nothing to do with life or anything else. But the argument seems to be that it's not the habitability issue, but rather "oh, it's so amazing that we can see the stars, so everything must have been done to allow that" - without assuming things like the octipoids would say "oh, how incredible it is that we can explore the deepest depths of the world-ocean, so everything must have been set up to allow us to do that."
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