Good choice
Posted on 08/04/2016 11:31:04 AM PDT by Purdue77
SPACE (8/3) reports that a new modeling study indicates that life on Earth may be “premature,” and that the probability of life emerging throughout the universe in the distant future is 1,000 times greater than it is now. Study Lead Author Avi Loeb, with the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, stated, “If you ask, ‘When is life most likely to emerge?’ you might naively say, ‘Now.’” He added that despite such inclinations, “we find that the chance of life grows much higher in the distant future.” The scientists conducting the research “determined that the main factor influencing the possible evolution of life on a planet is the lifetime of that planet’s host star.” The article explains that while the sun is expected to die about 5 billion years from now, “the smallest stars can live for up to 10 trillion years, giving life plenty of time to take root.” (This excerpt is from the 4 Aug AIAA newsletter.)
(Excerpt) Read more at space.com ...
You are a fluke
Of the universe.
You have no right to be here.
And whether you can hear it or not
The universe is laughing behind your back.
Aliens are common now! Seal the border!
Oh. Wait.
I doubt God would agree.
We get to be the Evil Overlords of the Galaxy.
(Note to self: Pressure Naboo into renegotiating trade deal on better terms for us the Evil Overlords).
You doubt God would agree with what; that we are premature or that we are a fluke of the universe? One is supposed to be serious and the other is supposed to be humor. I'll let you decide which is which.
Organic life is an intermediate step to robots.
Once science admits there is a God great discoveries will be made.
As long as science thinks its God(discover life, good luck you jerks)scientific discoveries will be slow.
Tens of Millions of inhabited planets out there.
This universe is well organized and purposefully planned by a loving Father. YAY!
You mean Deteriorata.
Man goes to God and says, “We don’t need you anymore, we can make Man from dirt just like you.”
God says, “Ok, show me.”
The man picks up some dirt, before God interrupts, “No no, go make your own dirt.”
Depends to a certain extent on star type and where one might “Goldilocks” zone of a given galaxy. Even now.
I think that occasionally there are cosmic events that wipe out all life on a planet.
And it comes back.
I firmly believe this has happened before on Earth. Maybe at several points over millions of years.
There are buildings underwater when there is no known point in history that we know of when water was not there.
It has to do with the existence of water. The only reason we have water is because we have a magnetic field, as I understand it it would have evaporated into space without it.
So what gives us a magnetic field? The earths core moves at a different speed than the outer mantle.
How does that happen? If you spin a ball containing liquid it will eventually all spin at the same rate. The earth is too old for that to stll be happening.
But what if getting whacked by an asteroid set the outside spinning and the core has to catch up again? Then (since the material may be a little springy) it wobbles back and forth until they stabilize- like a screen door swings back and forth until it stops.
That would also explain magnetic fields changing over and over.
Hee hee... God is funny.
Suggest we immediately start praying that these aliens are neither Muslims nor dimrats. Carl Sagan would be speechless were he still around asking only ‘are they intelligent life forms?’
*ping* (wherever you may be)
We are a second generation star, right? If so, doesn’t that mean that there are first generation slow-burners that would have hit peak life generation by now?
While what they say makes sense for our neighborhood, it wouldn’t make sense universally.
Considering in our short time on the planet we have already traveled to all of our neighbors, and landed on many, it is already probably there is life outside Earth (even if it is just microbes stuck to the surface of the vehicles we sent there)
Throw in a million years of technology and we probably will have figured out FTL travel and visit other solar systems.
I wish I could just once SEE an advanced civilization who started where we are and succeeded (without killing each other) in advancing knowledge for a million years.
LOL!!! That’s GREAT.
You should post it more often.
wow.
I think it's laughing in my face.
National Lampoon’s “Deteriorata” from 1972. Still a classic.
“Therefore, make peace with your god,
Whatever you perceive him to be - hairy thunderer, or cosmic muffin.
“With all its hopes, dreams, promises, and urban renewal
The world continues to deteriorate.
“Give up!
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