"Happy planets are all alike,

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Every unhappy planet is unhappy in its own way. "


Please help me finish the second paragraph.

Everything was in confusion in the Oblonsky household. The wife had found out that the husband had had an affair with their French governess and had told him that she could not go on living in the same house with him. This situation had now gone on for three days and was felt acutely by the husband and wife themselves, by all the members of the family, and by their servants. All the members of the family and the servants felt that there was no sense in their living together under the same roof and that people who happened to meet at any country inn had more in common with one another than they, the members of the Oblonsky family and their servants. The wife did no leave her own rooms, and the husband had not been home for three days. The children ran about all over the house looking lost; the English governess had quarreled with the housekeeper and had written to a friend to ask her to find her a new place; the chef had left the house the day before, at dinnertime; the under-cook and the driver had given notice.

I read in Discover Magazine that Tolstoy was wrong, and that the opposite has been found to be closer to the truth: that happy families find happiness in diverse ways, while unhappy families are more like each other.

But be that as it may, you want us to apply Anna Karenina principle to astronomy?

There is a logic to applying AK principle to finding life on other planets. Other planets fail at being "happy" ( if by happy you mean able to support life) for differing reasons. Some planets are too hot, and some are too cold, for example.

since dostoevsky and wittgenstein were born we never had another good simple day. Sad. Sad ret*d is always jealous of happy ret*ds or the sad genius.

.... and it is those differences that keep them from colliding into one another, assuming they orbit the same sun