polymathwannabe comments on Open thread, Jan. 26 - Feb. 1, 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: polymathwannabe 27 January 2015 06:37:28PM 4 points [-]

An ancient extrasolar system with five sub-Earth-size planets

"To put that into perspective, by the time Earth formed, these five planets were already older than our planet is today."

Comment author: JoshuaZ 27 January 2015 07:00:40PM 6 points [-]

I'm actually in the process of writing a discussion post on Great Filter issues that mentions this. It should be clear why this sort of thing should be pretty scary.

Incidentally this is the paper in question http://arxiv.org/abs/1501.06227

Comment author: CellBioGuy 27 January 2015 11:37:46PM 3 points [-]

I look forward to it!