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The Truth Is Out There. Extraterrestrials, Probably Not
NCR ^ | December 10, 2009 | Benjamin Wiker

Posted on 12/10/2009 9:47:56 AM PST by NYer

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1 posted on 12/10/2009 9:47:58 AM PST by NYer
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To: netmilsmom; thefrankbaum; markomalley; Tax-chick; GregB; saradippity; Berlin_Freeper; Litany; ...

Finally ... a reasonable and realistic view on life in the universe.


2 posted on 12/10/2009 9:49:07 AM PST by NYer ("One Who Prays Is Not Afraid; One Who Prays Is Never Alone" - Benedict XVI)
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To: Quix

Ping!


3 posted on 12/10/2009 9:49:59 AM PST by NYer ("One Who Prays Is Not Afraid; One Who Prays Is Never Alone" - Benedict XVI)
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To: NYer
I gave up hope that life was out there along time ago.

We landed on the Moon and I was so hoping they we find beautiful Moon Maidens. Nothing but gray dust and rocks.
We land a camera on Mars, and I am praying we find beautiful green skin Orion Women. We get red dust and rocks.
By the time we do find something of value I will be long gone. And besides, even if we were to find something of value in my life time, it is too late for me. My wife would not let us keep one.

4 posted on 12/10/2009 9:55:00 AM PST by NavyCanDo
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To: All
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5 posted on 12/10/2009 9:59:33 AM PST by Alex Murphy ("Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him" - Job 13:15)
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To: NYer

Seems like it would be more accurate to say...’life and intelligence as we know it’. There could be lots of life and intelligence greater than we know about, couldn’t there?


6 posted on 12/10/2009 10:10:01 AM PST by stuartcr (If we are truly made in the image of God, why do we have faults?)
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To: NYer
Heck, we barely know what is at the bottom of our own oceans. Not so long ago, "scientists" were telling us nothing could live down there. Surprise!

Its quite possible there is intelligent life all around us, they just don't want to associate with retards.

7 posted on 12/10/2009 10:12:44 AM PST by Michael Barnes
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“Think about it. Even if it were possible to travel at the speed of light, and even if some other intelligent creatures had developed technology far more quickly than we did, they would have to have lived for two and a half million years of space travel (as the crow flies) to find us. How likely is that?”

How many centuries has man been messing around with real science on any great scale? Maybe two or three? Powered flight has only been around a hundred years or so. And many no doubt thought man would never fly. So I think it’s kind of silly to claim that nothing can go faster than light, ever. What about teleportation? I reckon we’ll see in a few thousand years. Or maybe not.

I still think it’s a bummer that Mars isn’t like Barsoom.

Freegards


8 posted on 12/10/2009 10:18:12 AM PST by Ransomed (Son of Ransomed Says Keep the Faith!)
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To: Michael Barnes

I’m sure aliens have something along the lines of warp drive, space folding technology, or an Einstein-Rosen-Podolsky Bridge.


9 posted on 12/10/2009 10:19:55 AM PST by Schwaeky (The Republic--Shall be reorganized into the first American EMPIRE, for a safe and secure Society!)
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To: NYer
Having said that, it does seem likely that there’s got to be some form of life out there somewhere. After all, there are hundreds of billions of galaxies in the universe.

Yes, and trillions of planets. Therefore there must be one that's shaped just like Alfred E. Newman's head.

That is what we should be searching for.

10 posted on 12/10/2009 10:20:02 AM PST by Yardstick
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“Its quite possible there is intelligent life all around us, they just don’t want to associate with retards.”

Or those who voluntarily kill their own unborn young, and call it a freedom.

Freegards


11 posted on 12/10/2009 10:23:19 AM PST by Ransomed (Son of Ransomed Says Keep the Faith!)
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We are not even a Type I civilization yet. Can you imagine coming across (or being discovered by) a Type II civilization?

Hope they don't have "To Serve Man" on their book club list.

12 posted on 12/10/2009 10:24:26 AM PST by Michael Barnes
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“What science does indeed know, with ever greater certainty, is the increasing improbability of extraterrestrial life”

Roadapples!!

Science knows diddildy squat about what is REALLY going on in the universe. Anyone who is so arrogant as to think we are the only intelligent life in the universe must be descendants of the “flat Earthers”. Earth may not have been visited by them but to say with certainty we are the only intelligent life in the universe falls into the “Gore” level of thought processes.


13 posted on 12/10/2009 10:25:23 AM PST by flash2368
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A very balanced view overall. There is one wrongly asserted "fact" here, though. The Andromeda Galaxy is not the closest galaxy to our own. It is merely the nearest "large" galaxy. There are at least 15 smaller "dwarf" galaxies that are closer, including the two very famous Magellanic Clouds. But the point I think the writer was making still holds: namely, even the closest dwarf galaxies to us are many tens of thousands of light-years away, and most of the ones closer than the Andromeda Galaxy are several hundred thousand light-years away. That's a long way away for any possible civilization to be bothered zeroing-in on a little blue rock orbiting a nondescript star orbiting in the suburbs of the Milky Way amid 500 billion other stars!
14 posted on 12/10/2009 10:26:19 AM PST by magisterium
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Or those who voluntarily kill their own unborn young, and call it a freedom.

Right. Retards.

15 posted on 12/10/2009 10:29:27 AM PST by Michael Barnes
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What science does indeed know, with ever greater certainty, is the increasing improbability of extraterrestrial life.

There are 2 theories on how life came about on this planet. Random chance and intelligent design. The same laws of nature that exists here also exists everywhere else in the universe. The same laws of nature that brought life to this planet would also bring life to other planets, although the probability is low if it is only by random chance.

On the other hand if there is intelligent design (God Exists) then the same reason he brought life to this planet would also motivate him to put life on other planets.

16 posted on 12/10/2009 12:34:00 PM PST by Alan2
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Live can survive in some pretty extreme conditions but they have to be relatively stable.

There are organism’s in the depths of the ocean that survive on methane expelled from volcanic vents.

But the temperatures are consistent.

If the moon didn’t control the wobble of the earth during it’s orbit, temperatures would fluctuate wildly.. From sub freezing to well above daily. Nothing on earth could survive that and likely nothing elsewhere could either.


17 posted on 12/10/2009 12:56:49 PM PST by TASMANIANRED
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To: Alan2

Really not trying to be snarky, but it may be a trifle presumptuous to speak for Gods motivations, beyond that which He has given us in the bible.

While He certainly Could do it, who can speak to His motivations? His ways are not ours.


18 posted on 12/10/2009 12:57:12 PM PST by RoadGumby (Ask me about Ducky)
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Really not trying to be snarky, but it may be a trifle presumptuous to speak for Gods motivations, beyond that which He has given us in the bible.

And behold, the glory of the Lord was upon Moses, so that Moses stood in the presence of God, and talked with him face to face. And the Lord God said unto Moses: For mine own purpose have I made these things. Here is wisdom and it remaineth in me.

And by the word of my power, have I created them, which is mine Only Begotten Son, who is full of grace and truth.

And worlds without number have I created; and I also created them for mine own purpose; and by the Son I created them, which is mine Only Begotten.

For behold, this is my work and my glory—to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man.

19 posted on 12/10/2009 1:55:06 PM PST by Alan2
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To: Alan2

Agreed, now, tell me, “What is His purpose?”


20 posted on 12/10/2009 2:05:39 PM PST by RoadGumby (Ask me about Ducky)
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