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August 25, 20101918 - Leonard Bernstein
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1930 - Sir Sean Connery
1938 - Frederick Forsyth
1942 - Howard Jacobson
1947 - Ann Archer
1949 - Martin Amis
1954 - Elvis Costello
1956 - Matt Aitken
1961 - Billy Ray Cyrus
1970 - Claudia Schiffer
For us, Earth is the only planet that will support our life forms. That is because we developed here, and so we were formed to need a certain amount of warmth (but not too hot!), and a certain combination of molecules in our air. Now, if we went to live on another planet, it would be too hot or too cold for us, and its atmosphere would not give us what we need to breathe. If we had developed on that planet instead, then we would have adapted to it. Of course, then we would not be ourselves!
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