Posted on 03/15/2026 11:04:52 AM PDT by rexthecat
Why is intelligent life so rare in the universe? According to Richard Feynman, the odds are far lower than most people imagine. While the universe is vast, the emergence of complex, intelligent life requires a delicate balance of physical, chemical, and environmental conditions — conditions that are extremely unlikely to align perfectly.
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Maybe He provided other paths to redemption for those other than humans’ path.
He’s done it twice already on earth - via the Law for Jews, and via grace after Calvary.
Maybe other entities didn’t experience any “fall” causing original sin, so they didn’t need a propitiation to pay the price.
“Jesus was God’s only begotten son.”
Another entity may not have needed Jesus, who was sent to save us from our sins via Adam.
Well, here on earth the conditions don’t exactly line up in every case; I mean we do have democrats...
“I have to laugh when I see how gullible people are when it comes to presuming life can arise spontaneously all over the universe.”
I don’t laugh; I just think those people are stupid. Whatever and whomever exists, wherever that may be, is because God created them.
Unless and until we either find life somewhere else or figure out how to make life from scratch in a laboratory we have no idea how common or rare life is. It is possible that life evolves eventually on just about any planet with water that doesn’t freeze or boil away. OTOH, it is possible that the evolution of life on Earth required so many conditions and coincidental occurrences that life has never evolved anywhere else.
The formation of complex hydrocarbons is simple. Just take hydrogen, carbon, and a few other elements, put them in an atmosphere under constant pressure and a heat source, and mix them for a few million years. How to make the jump from the most complex hydrocarbons to the simplest living organism is still the great unknown.
Yes, it was. Most around me didn’t get it. It’s like a documentary today.
Not necessarily...the rules God set for Adam and Eve would not necessarily have been set for other existent aliens in other places. There may well be no other alien races that had their own “original sin problem”, the way humans, having been made in God’s image, did. So Jesus would not have needed to die for these aliens.
Have some alien worlds been seduced by Satan as part of his “rebellious coalition” against heaven? Who can say...
Agreed.
It seems the only reason life simply must be elsewhere in the universe is because there’s so much room.
These are not actually him, just AI faking his voice based on his old recordings. The channel owner then writes a script promoting whatever they want, then eleven.com fakes the voice. Some guy is doing the same with Billy Graham. Just more AI slop. Originating in India most likely.
In summary, the idea is to try to give all of the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another. Richard Feynman
Assessment about extraterrestrial life and Intelligent Design: TBD
And all of those visible stars are just in our own galaxy except for a smudgy look at Andromeda. And there are billions of galaxies! To me it seems highly unlikely that we're alone.
Well there sure isn't any in the democrat party.
I think it would have been mentioned in the Bible.
Intelligent life is extremely rare here on earth. Evolution elsewhere is WAY more likely to generate a rational sentient form of intelligence.
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thanks. I could listen to him all day. He was bright but had the ability to explain complex things simply
THIS IS NOT Dr. Richard Feynman. It is AI SLOP. He didn’t say this. Please stop feeding these Indian AI video farms traffic!
Just to even approach the speed of light would take more than the known energy in the entire universe to propel a load the size of a toaster to any nearby star.
For example, if we had (we do not at present) a drive which could give a continuous 1 gravity of acceleration, the ship would reach alpha centari in roughly 6.7 years, given 10.4 months to accelerate and another 10.4 months to decelerate at 1 g at each end of the journey and 4.4 years to coast in between, reaching only 80% of the speed of light along the way. To accelerate 1kg to and decelerate from 80% of the speed of light would take converting about 2.67 kg of mass to energy.
We do not have that sort of mass to energy conversion ability to day, but it is possible.
Of course, if you are content to send a probe at 1/10th the speed of light, and not to decelerate when you get there, the energy requirement drops by about 95%, still far beyond our capability, but it would reach the nearest star in about 45 years (no deceleration). Assumption of 4.2 light years to the nearest star..
Math done fast, with minimal checking. Others are advised to check.
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