Goldilocks effect
attrib.— «Comparative geology between Earth, Venus and Mars. And, hopefully, possibly answering questions where climate and geology are interrelated, like the “goldilocks effect” where Venus is too hot, Mars is too cold, and the Earth is just right.» —“Re: Magellan Update—11/16/90″ by Fraering Philip Usenet: sci.space Nov. 19, 1990. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Outer space, used with its modern meaning, appears as early as the 1840s in a poem by Emmeline Stuart-Wortley. Soon after, Alexander von Humboldt was using variations on it in his writings about the cosmos. By 1901, H.G. Wells was using outer space...
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