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>The early earth was likely "oxygen" starved too

We'll just wait a couple billion years then! Problem solved.




I think the point that, even without oxygen, it could already be habitable for anaerobic organisms.


Well, it does say: "“We don’t really know how much oxygen you need to make life,” she said. “So the fact that it’s lower than some earlier, wishful-thinking estimates is not such a problem.”.


Heh, the problem is we only have 800, maybe 900 million years left!




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