Posted on 06/24/2020 9:09:55 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
Based on the false belief the sun is a gaseous object. It's not it's a solid object making it's mass tremendously larger.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDFPx6zVxSw&t=653s
“Keep your eyes on the stars”
-TMZ
Since the light we detect from way out there is from events which occurred very long ago, those previous light emitting structures could be gone at this moment. We are just looking at events as they happened then. We could be cogitating about entities which no longer exist. No?
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I recently read the book “Three Body Problem” and it deals with just these kinds of issues. It’s science fiction, but it’s also a thought experiment about what “first contact” would be like — and they are not friendly. The author is a Chinese physicist, but his English translator must have been a genius because it’s a good read!
*** Computer models not matching up with reality again. ***
And political polls consistently don’t match reality. I think I see a pattern here — a lack of sanity?
Correct. We could also, as I mentioned, be speaking about entities that do not *yet* exist.
It’s also possible that there are other life bearing planets out there and a message from one is winging it’s way to us right now!
Though with our luck it will probably be intra-galactic spam.
Dinosaurs were widely distributed over the planet. But their fossils are found primarily in areas where the ancient sediments trapped their remains — places like the Badlands of North America and the Gobi Desert in Asia.
Humans ancestors developed (according to accepted theory) in a narrow part of East Africa. That is where we find the most diversity of proto-human fossil evidence. Not saying that the theory is correct: only that the current evidence supports the “Out-of-Africa” migration theory. Could there have been a “2001 Monolith Incident”? Maybe, but it isn’t necessary to explain what we see.
You are correct, “civilization” was an overstatement, because of the factors you mention, life, itself however, is probably ubiquitous throughout parts of the galaxy and universe. Indeed, we may yet discover it throughout the solar system.
To be certain, I have no expectation, that humanity will ever discover or have meaningful contact with other intelligent life, but our level of technology and understanding forces a constant reappraisal of our pre-conceptions.
We’re just tiny little specks about the size of Mickey Rooney.
We are finding them. Maybe the author should get out more.
Space expands faster than the laws of physics allows us to travel so as far as we are concerned we will NEVER travel to the “edge” of the universe.
I suppose that makes space infinite as far as we are concerned..
we will NEVER travel to OR EVER SEE the “edge” of the universe.
You feel our first introduction to the Universe was by Enrico Caruso? LOL - could do worse...
“Send more Chuck Berry”
Excellent...
“we will NEVER travel to OR EVER SEE the “edge” of the universe.”
There is no edge and no end, there is always something beyond.
There is no word to describe things the human mind can’t comprehend. The edge of outer space is one of those things.
One thing I didn’t like Adams doing is putting words in God’s mouth, having Him say He refuses to prove His own existence—claiming that proof denies faith (anything but).
Plenty of potential in that “awful waste of space”; Isaiah 45:18 notes that not just the earth but the heavens are “formed to be inhabited” . . .
Our instruments aren’t that powerful yet and the galaxy is an enormously large place. We need more time and better instruments to find them.
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