SETI public: On the First Anthropic Argument in Astrobiology

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From: LARRY KLAES (ljk4_at_msn.com)
Date: Sat Jul 12 2003 - 21:51:43 PDT

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    http://www.arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0306185

    Astrophysics, abstract
    astro-ph/0306185
    From: Milan M. Cirkovic <arioch_at_eunet.yu>
    Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 00:00:19 GMT (204kb)

    On the First Anthropic Argument in Astrobiology
    Authors: Milan M. Cirkovic
    Comments: 16 pages, 2 figures, submitted to "Earth, Moon, and Planets"

    We consider the little-known anthropic argument of Fontenelle dealing with the nature of cometary orbits, given a year before the publication of Newton's Principia. This is particularly interesting in view of the rapid development of the recently resurgent theories of cometary catastrophism and their role in the modern astrobiological debates, for instance in the "rare Earth" hypothesis of Ward and Brownlee.

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