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Venus: 450 degrees centigrade average temperature, battered by over 400-mile-an-hour sulphuric acid winds, with never any sight of the night-time sky.
Mars: often minus 100 degrees centigrade. Hardly any atmosphere and no oxygen. Sun just visible as a big star. Inhospitable to life.
Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune: all giant planets with gravity so strong you would be crushed the minute you set foot on them, which you couldn’t do anyway, as their surfaces are liquid gasses. Average winds of 1000 miles per hour that never cease. No oxygen.
Pluto: a tiny, airless planet less than the size of our moon with no sunlight, no atmosphere and a temperature near absolute zero.
In contrast, Planet Earth: Paradise! So delicately balanced to guarantee your survival that changes of less than 1 per cent in the ‘formula’ that created it would have made it inhospitable to life and therefore to you.
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