“In terms of habitability, I think we are in the best possible place,” Gonzalez said. “That’s because our location provides enough building blocks to yield an Earth, while providing a low level of threats to life. I really can’t come up with an example of another place in the galaxy that is as friendly to life as our location. Sometimes people claim you can be in any part of any galaxy. Well, I’ve studied other regions — spiral arms, galactic centers, globular clusters, edge of disks — and no matter where it is, it’s worse for life. I can’t think of any better place than where we are.”
