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Given the fact that the moon is huge in comparison to Earth.?
And given the fact that the moons affects have ALOT to do with stable and complex life on Earth?
Would it be more likely that we would find life forms on double planet (exo) systems or planets with abnormally large moons?
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- duke_of_urlsLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
I see that you mean that Earth's moon is much larger in comparison to Earth than other moons in the Solar system are in comparison to the planets they orbit.
I think that a large moon would not actually make or break the chance for life to evolve to any particular level. The right micro-environments were much more important than larger things like tides. In fact, life likely formed in a very calm environment in which molecules could come into contact for enough time to grow without being within cell walls.
- gintableLv 71 decade ago
The moon is not huge in comparison to Earth.
On a size-basis scale model, if Earth were the typical classroom globe, the moon would be a baseball.
On a mass-basis scale model, if Earth were the mass of a man, the moon would be the mass of a shoe.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Where did you get the idea that the Moon is bigger than the earth?
the earth is bigger. both have been measured in different ways
we do NOT know the cause of life as far as we know liquid water is necessary. but that is just for the life we know