Posted on 08/06/2007 4:52:45 PM PDT by KevinDavis
Editor's Note: We asked several scientists from various fields what they thought were the greatest mysteries today, and then we added a few that were on our minds, too. This article is one of 15 in LiveScience's "Greatest Mysteries" series running each weekday.
Life can be found in almost every nook and cranny of our planet Earth. Leaping, swimming, flying, sprinting, slithering, crawling or rooted firmly in place, organisms appear, die, and are replaced by new generations and new species.
Whether a similar bounty of life exists elsewhere in the universe is one of the oldest and most tantalizing questions of science. Considering the wide breadth of the universe and the countless stars it contains, the odds would seem in favor of the answer being "yes."
"We are here, made of stardust. Therefore, it is at least possible that there are others," said Jill Tarter, director of the Center for SETI Research in California.
(Excerpt) Read more at space.com ...
Illegals don’t count. ;-) This is exactly what the Fermi Paradox is about. If there are sapient aliens, where in the heck are they? Go read about it a bit. It more or less supports your contentions.
Oh, and the other thing: In about 50 million years, the sun gets very inhospitable to life as we know it on earth. Given the insane scale of what we would need to do to travel interstellarly, we’d better get on with it.
;-)
I know. I knew Fermi. Fermi was a friend of mine. He wasn’t outrageous like Feinmann. I have no contentions and this is all very old stuff.
Yep very old. 60’s and 70’s, right?
That’s sort of in the ballpark of true, but not for what you may be thinking.
We’re going nowhere. Forget it. We had a shot at it 30 years ago and blew it. No second chance.
Genesis 2:7
the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
Genesis 3:19
By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return."
Who says the dust from the ground didn't come from space?
Yup, look in any of the Southern Tier of Sates next to the Mexican Border. You will see plenty of 'em.
Where are the Men in Black?
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