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by glandium 751 days ago
> Why do planets look like a sphere (approximately)? Because that's the most probable shape if things happen randomly.

That has actually nothing to do with randomness, and everything to do with gravity. https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/planets-round/en/

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which, to be clear, is the exact point the parent comment is making.

Randomness only favors something over noise if there is a non random process determining the structure