<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/a678291f-874d-47a9-94eb-8752ded6f134/2838724A-4148-4885-A118-73AFB2D16B14/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Goldilocks_Principle&oldid=299020537" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Goldilocks_Principle&oldid=299020537" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Goldilocks_Principle&oldid=299020537"><P>The <B>Goldilocks Principle</B> states that something must fall within certain margins, as opposed to reaching extremes. It is used, for example, in the <A title="Rare Earth hypothesis" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare_Earth_hypothesis" linkindex="14">Rare Earth hypothesis</A> to state that a <A title="Planet" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet" linkindex="15">planet</A> must neither be too far away from, nor too close to, the <A title="Sun" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun" linkindex="16">sun</A> to support life. Either extreme would result in a planet incapable of supporting life.<SUP class="reference" id="cite_ref-0"><A href="#cite_note-0" linkindex="17"><SPAN>[</SPAN>1<SPAN>]</SPAN></A></SUP> Such a planet is often called a <A title="Goldilocks planet" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldilocks_planet" linkindex="18">Goldilocks planet</A>.<SUP class="reference" id="cite_ref-Muir_1-0"><A href="#cite_note-Muir-1" linkindex="19"><SPAN>[</SPAN>2<SPAN>]</SPAN></A></SUP><SUP class="reference" id="cite_ref-BBC-R4_2-0"><A href="#cite_note-BBC-R4-2" linkindex="20"><SPAN>[</SPAN>3<SPAN>]</SPAN></A></SUP></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Goldilocks_Principle&oldid=299020537"><P>The Goldilocks Principle comes from a children's story <I><A class="mw-redirect" title="Goldilocks and the Three Bears" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldilocks_and_the_Three_Bears" linkindex="21">Goldilocks and the Three Bears</A></I> in which a little girl found a house owned by three bears. Each bear owned a separate copy of many things, such as food, beds, etc. After testing each of the three, Goldilocks determined that one was always too much in one extreme, one was too much in the opposite extreme, and one was "just right."<SUP class="reference" id="cite_ref-3"><A href="#cite_note-3" linkindex="22"><SPAN>[</SPAN>4<SPAN>]</SPAN></A></SUP></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Goldilocks_Principle&oldid=299020537"><LI id="cite_note-0"><B><A href="#cite_ref-0" linkindex="24">^</A></B> <A rel="nofollow" title="http://www.ucar.edu/learn/1_1_2_1t.htm" class="external text" href="http://www.ucar.edu/learn/1_1_2_1t.htm" linkindex="25">The Goldilocks Principle: A Model of Atmospheric Gases</A></LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Goldilocks_Principle&oldid=299020537"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD class="mbox-text">It has been suggested that this article or section be <A title="Wikipedia:Merging" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Merging" linkindex="11">merged</A> into <I><A title="Planetary habitability" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_habitability" linkindex="12">Planetary habitability</A></I>. 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