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LIfe on other planets?
Posted on 7/11/13 at 9:26 am
Posted on 7/11/13 at 9:26 am
With trillions of galaxies with so many trillions of stars harboring trillions of planets is it reasonable to assume that their is life scattered through the cosmos?
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Posted on 7/11/13 at 9:28 am to CrimsonChin
i think it's pretty narcissistic to think otherwise. An infinite number of galaxies each with billions of planets and we are the only one? child please
Posted on 7/11/13 at 9:29 am to CrimsonChin
it is reasonable to assume, but not definite.
Organic, I will say earth like life is very fragile. And the universe very volatile. The odd's of the earth actually existing as it does today are extremely long.
Organic, I will say earth like life is very fragile. And the universe very volatile. The odd's of the earth actually existing as it does today are extremely long.
Posted on 7/11/13 at 9:29 am to CrimsonChin
I hope so...or else all this karate I have been learning to defend the planet is pointless.
Posted on 7/11/13 at 9:36 am to UMRealist
Christian beliefs aside....
i'd find it hard to believe there isn't life out there.
that being said, they obviously aren't more advanced than us because they haven't gotten to us either.
i'd find it hard to believe there isn't life out there.
that being said, they obviously aren't more advanced than us because they haven't gotten to us either.
Posted on 7/11/13 at 9:37 am to CheeseburgerEddie
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Organic, I will say earth like life is very fragile. And the universe very volatile. The odd's of the earth actually existing as it does today are extremely long.
That's assuming that an earth like planet is the only way life is possible. Evolutionary theory would disagree with that.
Posted on 7/11/13 at 9:38 am to 3nOut
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that being said, they obviously aren't more advanced than us because they haven't gotten to us either.
Who is to say they haven't, or don't have a desire to?
Posted on 7/11/13 at 9:39 am to CrimsonChin
It would be crazy to think there is no life elsewhere. Whether it would meet our idea of intelligent is a different question, but even then I tend to think the answer is yes.
Good article in current Popular Mechanics but I can't find it online.
Good article in current Popular Mechanics but I can't find it online.
Posted on 7/11/13 at 9:40 am to 3nOut
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they obviously aren't more advanced than us because they haven't gotten to us either.
that doesn't mean anything. the universe is infinitely large
Posted on 7/11/13 at 9:41 am to TreyAnastasio
if it's the latter, they probably got here, found out about Jersey Shore and the Kardashians and said "frick this noise." and left.
Posted on 7/11/13 at 9:43 am to 3nOut
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that being said, they obviously aren't more advanced than us because they haven't gotten to us either.
I don't know about that. It might be true for our own galaxy, but you are underestimating the vastness of the universe. What if the closest civilization that has developed a way of traveling via wormhole is 500,000 galaxies away from us? The chances of them just happening upon us are miniscule.
Posted on 7/11/13 at 9:46 am to UMRealist
id say its likely life is out there besides us.
didn't we pick up some high pitch sounds the other day that weren't from earth?
didn't we pick up some high pitch sounds the other day that weren't from earth?
Posted on 7/11/13 at 9:48 am to TreyAnastasio
It isn't the only way possible, define life for me in another way and we can start discussing that.
The sun is created, burns energy, or consumes fuel, and dies. is that life?
The sun is created, burns energy, or consumes fuel, and dies. is that life?
Posted on 7/11/13 at 9:50 am to CheeseburgerEddie
From what you said it seemed to me like the only way for organic life is carbon based life that needs water and oxygen to survive. What if life has evolved in other places to need sulfur and hydrochloric acid to survive?
Posted on 7/11/13 at 9:52 am to heartbreakTiger
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didn't we pick up some high pitch sounds the other day that weren't from earth?
That was a star going supernova.
We'll all be dead in 9 days.
Posted on 7/11/13 at 9:53 am to PowerTool
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It would be crazy to think there is no life elsewhere.
This. It is almost a certainty there is a lot of life on a whole shitload of different planets in the universe.
Posted on 7/11/13 at 9:53 am to Slippery Slope
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We'll all be dead in 9 days.
As long as I make it to these Chicago shows next weekend, Im cool with that.
Posted on 7/11/13 at 9:54 am to Slippery Slope
the only reason id be sad by that is missing out on grindfest
Posted on 7/11/13 at 9:55 am to TreyAnastasio
i understand, but if you want to have an actual discussion you have to make parameters, or reasonable assumptions. Mine was to discuss earth like life.
As I said earlier what defines life?
As I said earlier what defines life?
Posted on 7/11/13 at 9:57 am to CheeseburgerEddie
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As I said earlier what defines life?
Birth, aging, death, at least a small amount of intelligence, if only to reproduce.
I just think to discuss life only in the earth like parameters is a little naive. I mean, if evolution produces such a wide variety of life on earth, I cant even begin to imagine how it would work somewhere that is nowhere near earth like.
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