PING!..................
Pet peeve, but “learnt” is not a word. I’ve heard it pronounced that way for years in the British Isles, but it was always spelled “learned”. (And JFTR, there is a difference between “burned” and “burnt”.)
Or one could just acknowledge that “In the beginning God….”
Reality check, we just don’t know enough information about other star systems, consider all of the galaxies in stars out there.
Regards,
Today’s guest on Dan Bongino wrote this book:
https://reasons.org/explore/publications/connections/why-the-universe-is-the-way-it-is
We have no idea how many systems like this God Created. The bible is very much Earth centric when it comes to our relationship with our creator and our savior. For all we know, a similar story is going on on trillions of planets in the universe. The bible doesn’t say it is, but it doesn’t say it isn’t. It doesn’t discuss it.
Ask Rick James.
Pluto is right in our front yard and wasn’t discovered until 1930.
In addition to the obvious life-hospitable factors, such as a temperature suitable for liquid water and a suitably-sized sun, there are many more factors required for a planet to be fit for (especially human-like intelligent) life, with more factors likely to be discovered):
Suitable gravity for atmosphere, with appropriate pressure, to retain oxygen and water vapor but not hydrogen; suitable axis rotation rate; appropriate tilt of planet axis for seasons; suitable orbital distance from star to prevent tidal locking; magnetic field from planet molten core to shield atmosphere from cosmic radiation; sufficient planetary plate tectonics for crustal mineral recycling; suitable distribution and shape of continents to sustain deep ocean currents; sufficient actinide radioisotopes in planet interior for decay heat; suitably-sized moon to create needed tides and stabilize planet rotation; giant outer gas planets to prevent large asteroids and comets from frequent collisions with planet; suburban galaxy location providing sufficient distance from recent supernovas; far enough away from gravitational disturbances by higher density of stars in inner area of galaxy; only minor orbital variations caused by small chaotic gravitational interactions between nearby planets.
With these factors the number of planets in our galaxy capable of sustaining human life is much smaller than the media and grant-seeking astronomers imply in their articles. The estimated probable number is likely very close to the experimentally known value of one.
The questions are, in my mind...
A) What does it mean if we are alone in the universe?
B) What does it mean if we aren’t?
There are considerable religious, philosophical, practical considerations in either case, especially in the long run.
I used to be big into the idea that there MUST be life out there. But now I'm convinced that the ONLY reason that people think there MUST be is a chance to finally once and for all disprove the idea of a creator God and his special creation...the Godkind.
Good article.
All I can say is the author babbled on quite a bit without once mentioning the Drake equation.
https://www.space.com/25219-drake-equation.html
Science alert!
They haven’t a clue what’s out there.
(By extension, this could mean life itself is an outlier; that the conditions that formed Earth and its veneer of self-replicating chemistry are difficult to replicate.)
How about that.......✝️🙏🛐
After all these billions of years I feel it’s unlikely that what we have with the Earth-Moon combination and the solar system in general, is 100% “natural”.
Almost certainly we live in/on a construct.
That is not to say we won’t detect more systems similar to ours, because I expect we will.
Even if this all is a construct there’s no reason to assume it’s unique.
"Things like the Solar System are very hard for us to find, they're a bit beyond us technologically at the minute," Horner says."The terrestrial planets would be very unlikely to be picked up from any of the surveys we've done so far. You're very unlikely to be able to find a Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars around a star like the Sun."
And if they are smart, they will put a cloaking device around their system.
Carbon-based life with abundant water, albeit maybe a rocky planet where the oceans mostly dwell within.
Frankly, almost absurdly, the canon of "Vulcan" seems the most likely candidate for Sentient Life 2.0.
But at the end of the day, we are not alone.