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Hi King,
Since our Earth could be considered a people planet, and we share it with the otters (and millions of other cousin species on the terrestrial evolutionary tree of life), I consider it highly likely that on otter planets, the otters share their home worlds with people (and millions of other cousin species on their local evolutionary tree of life).
Just in case you really meant “other planets”… attempts have been made to estimate how many other technological civilisations may exist concurrently with ours in our galactic neighbourhood. Our speculations have oscillated wildly, from the optimistic ends of the Drake equation, to the gravely pessimistic ends of the Rare Earth hypothesis. For further detail, see a previous ‘Best Answer’ by one of my alts:
• Do YOU think we're alone?
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At both ends of the spectrum – from the high result of the Drake equation to the low result of the Rare Earth equation – quite a few of the factors can only be conjectured. They cannot be estimated simply because we have but one data point: the Earth, a rocky planet orbiting a G2 star in a quiet suburb of a large barred spiral galaxy, and the home of the only intelligent technological species we know, namely ourselves.
I’m assuming that we’re both happy with expanding the definition of “people” to include folk from other technological civilisations. As the late great evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould was wont to point out, there have been so many chance occurrences and contingencies in the evolutionary history of terrestrial life (especially during the five great mass extinction events), that were the whole four billion year process to be run again, the probability of human beings evolving a second time is vanishingly small. So it’s even more unlikely that the exoplanet folk constituting other technological civilisations will even share our body plan, let alone look like we humans. Nevertheless, I think nearly all of us would recognise their personhood.
Since our Earth could be considered a people planet, and we share it with the otters (and millions of other cousin species on the terrestrial evolutionary tree of life), I consider it highly likely that on otter planets, the otters share their home worlds with people (and millions of other cousin species on their local evolutionary tree of life).
Just in case you really meant “other planets”… attempts have been made to estimate how many other technological civilisations may exist concurrently with ours in our galactic neighbourhood. Our speculations have oscillated wildly, from the optimistic ends of the Drake equation, to the gravely pessimistic ends of the Rare Earth hypothesis. For further detail, see a previous ‘Best Answer’ by one of my alts:
• Do YOU think we're alone?
» http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?…
At both ends of the spectrum – from the high result of the Drake equation to the low result of the Rare Earth equation – quite a few of the factors can only be conjectured. They cannot be estimated simply because we have but one data point: the Earth, a rocky planet orbiting a G2 star in a quiet suburb of a large barred spiral galaxy, and the home of the only intelligent technological species we know, namely ourselves.
I’m assuming that we’re both happy with expanding the definition of “people” to include folk from other technological civilisations. As the late great evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould was wont to point out, there have been so many chance occurrences and contingencies in the evolutionary history of terrestrial life (especially during the five great mass extinction events), that were the whole four billion year process to be run again, the probability of human beings evolving a second time is vanishingly small. So it’s even more unlikely that the exoplanet folk constituting other technological civilisations will even share our body plan, let alone look like we humans. Nevertheless, I think nearly all of us would recognise their personhood.
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