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Lee Cronin: belief

9 Dec 2023 Lex Fridman Podcast #404 – Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

“I agree and I would say, I’ll say again, that earth is the most gigantic thing we know in the universe combinatorially we know.”

— Lee Cronin

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Speaker
Lee Cronin
Attribution
Verified speaker
Claim type
belief
Recorded
9 Dec 2023
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

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…Okay, wait a minute. But I know you’re being poetic, but how do you know there’s not other earth-like… How do you know? You’re basically saying earth is really special. It’s awesome stuff as far as we look out, there’s nothing like it going on. But how do you know there’s not nearly infinite number of places where cool stuff like this is going on? I agree and I would say, I’ll say again, that earth is the most gigantic thing we know in the universe combinatorially we know. We know. Yeah.…

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