Why do you think the other 220 planets exist if they are uninhabitable?

Question

What is the purpose of their existence (in your opinion)?

Answer 1

Why do they have to have a purpose? Maybe we can't grasp the importance of their purpose since we assume that they don't have a purpose. Perhaps the near-by planets allow us to maintain within our orbit more effectively (we wouldn't know since we haven't been without Venus or Mars).

Answer 2

Where are you getting 220 from??? I'm thinking that this might be the number of extra solar planets astronomers have discovered by watching a stars wobble. All these planets are gas giants like Jupiter just closer to the sun. Well it's possible that in our early solar system Jupiter was closer to the sun then it is today. But the gas giants provide a critical role in a solar systems. If it weren't for Jupiter then our solar system would still be swarming with left over debris (asteroids, meteoroids and comets) left over from the creation of our solar system. And earth would be still being hit by asteroids like the one that wiped out the dinosaurs. We'll let me rephrase that we've been hit since the one the wiped out the dinosaurs and we will get hit again, If not for jupiter there would be a lot more stuff coasting around out there and hits would be a lot more frequent.

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Answer 3

Terraforming may someday be possible.
Right now the problem isn't living there. it's getting there. As we have the technology to build a small base on the moon.

As with the Moon, the problem is actually transport. And those planets are really far away. Also they are all gas giants anyway, but I think they'd have moons. And terrestrial planets are quite hard to see. Especially if their path doesn't pass between their star and the earth, which is how we detect planets.

If it wasn't for JUPITER, by the way, Earth would look like the moon. Jupiter grabs many nasty meteors and asteroids that might otherwise hit earth.

Answer 4

220 planets,there are millions or billions of planets in the universe that could support life.
They are part of a universe that evolves in this way.
Some time in the past the universe developed the capacity to become aware of itself.
Planets like earth were the course that was taken.
We are ,among many,the eyes and the ears of the universe.
Maybe this could give it purpose.

Answer 5

Their purpose is to be. Much as a fine painting or mountain, just the fact that it is there is enough. It inspires us to look deeper into the universe, it makes us believe that there is more than what we currently know. It doesn't matter whether or not they are inhabitable by us, they may have a fuel or element that we find useful, and we will have to rise to the occasion to be able to get to it.

Answer 6

well no reason. the planet got created because there was enough mass in one place which started spining due to forces from heavier planets or stars and coming togehter due to gravitational forces.
so ya it's all incidental, just as life seem to be on this palnet. it just happens the conditions were right for the existence of life.

Answer 7

I never thought the other planets were uninhabilable.
I also believe that they are here on Earth and have been for a very very long time.
Have you ever read the old comic books and old tv programmes with people like Captain Marvel. Remember how he used to fly around in a spaceship, how he used to communicate with people using screens, how they used to use lazer guns etc etc etc.
Well ... none of these had been developed in his time.
Yep they are here and living amongst us as normal people ... and one day they will show us who they are ... and we are still going to go on the way we are.

Answer 8

Maybe God thinks that these other planets are pretty.

Obviously not everything in the universe was made just for us to see; God and the angels apparently like to look at pretty things too.

Answer 9

there may be no purpose at all, it is all in how the universe formed, and earth just happened to get lucky and get a good atmosphere with good nutrients, and i think scientists are dumb for thinking water is absolutly necessary for life, i mean, earth creatures developed due to theyre envirionment, we need it cuz for us it is natural, its what earth chose for us, well, what if somewhere, in a far off world, there is a lifeform, that developed to live off of somthing else, such as carbon dioxide, plants live off it, or even somthing deadly to us could be necessary for survival for them, think about it, ya know? just cuz earth creatures need water, far far away maybe theres somthing else that needs somthing else.

Answer 10

My opinion is we se everything on earth and say wow we are small part of this. Try looking up. Lots of stuff out there that goes on forever and ever. But we go wow, look at that and never look up.