An interesting hypothesis I read about focused on the era of the universe when everything was lukewarm. Literally an entire universe in the "sweet spot" for the building blocks of life to form and propagate.

The idea is that the molecules would form, and then once the universe cooled further would freeze and be spread literally everywhere in similar asteroids. The rare part would be a location sufficiently stable in the goldilocks zone to evolve advanced life, not life itself.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Imagine being in a civilization back then. They would see our time as so cold, dead, and isolating.

[–] XeroxCool@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Like how we see the future of the universe as it heads to heat death

[–] Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago

Which makes us metal af.

[–] Ikon@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Would love to read more about this, I couldn't find it on Google, but im a bit stoned rn

[–] muix@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 days ago

There is a Kurzgesagt about this "Ancient Life as Old as the Universe" starting at 5:00