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Date: 2009-04-16 04:19 pm (UTC)In any case, I have two related guesses:
1) The average author has no conception the abundance of elements in the universe or their economic value, as you've said about Universal Water Scarcity™.
2) Sketching out a collection of worlds which are inhabited solely because there are valuble rocks there is more plausiable than sketching out a collection of worlds which are inhabited because they are conveniently Earth-like (or worse, Edenic).