Posted on 04/25/2019 6:01:33 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
I said a NEAR mathematical certainty but even given your 20 requirements for life here doesn’t mean other life in other places is dependent on the same conditions.
If time has taught us anything it is that the more we learn the more we realize how much we have to learn.
Some people set every factor in the Drake equation to zero. It certainly simplifies the calculation.
Of course, if they all really were zero we wouldn’t be here either...
Who counted 'em???
That assumes the goal of their malevolence is our "removal." Perhaps their goal is the "corruption" of our souls...not our "extermination."
The bible.
Russia! Russia! Russia!
“Recently, unidentified aircraft have entered military-designated airspace as often as multiple times per month.”
Russians, Chinese, Norks, Iranians, and curious geeks.
There. Solved it without having to resort to ETs.
Unknown vehicles clocked at airspeeds estimated to be greater than 15,000 kph (in the case of the USS NimitzPrinceton case). Let’s hope that’s not the Chinese or Russians.
Have never heard the term, “extra dimensional”, before. And you think they’re malevolent. Would that include demonic entities?
USS Nimitz/USSPrinceton case
“Who counted ‘em???”
Anyone play the universe exploration video game “No Man’s Sky”? Maybe ‘Player Unknown’ knows.
Back to work.
The Michelson-Morley experiment was only done on earth.IOW, the results could have been every bit as reliable as wind velocity measurements taken from a balloon freely floating in the hurricane.IF the matter forming the planets was swept together by vortexes of aether, one could reasonably expect that over a billion years or so the rotating mass and the swirling aether would drag each other to the same velocity.
Any attempt to measure the speed of light relative to that differential velocity (between the moving surface of the earth and the static frame of an immovable aether) would fail as the moving mass and the aether would have long since equilibrated to the same velocity.
Same argument for the earth’s motion about the sun, and the sun’s motion relative to the center of the galaxy. We’re all being swept along with the flow of the aether.
Einstein envisioned space as being warped into gravitational wells. These are always drawn as if they are simple depressions in a perfect grid of graph paper.
Suppose those wells are not simple dimples, but are swirling vortexes of aether. Like a whirlpool on the surface of water, they’d tend to accumulate any matter floating on the surface, and that matter would tend to acquire the same spin as the surface of the whirlpool.
Easy enough to test. Do the the Michelson-Morley experiment on a cubesat or deep space probe cutting across the flow of the aether...
Faulty data, faulty explanation...
About a million yrs ago,in the mid 70s,I was in a civil engineering squadron at a SAC base in North Dakota.I had to drive around the base and fix the toilets and sinks etc.Often I would go to the homes of bird Colonels and above who would tell me about UFOs that were observed above missile silos. They would attempt to intercept them but the things would be gone at impossible speeds
About a million yrs ago,in the mid 70s,I was in a civil engineering squadron at a SAC base in North Dakota.I had to drive around the base and fix the toilets and sinks etc.Often I would go to the homes of bird Colonels and above who would tell me about UFOs that were observed above missile silos. They would attempt to intercept them but the things would be gone at impossible speeds
Interesting that you decry someone’s assertion with another that’s totally bogus, i.e., “The odds that even 10 of these factors would randomly occur on any other planet is a number larger than every grain of sand on earth times 10 to the 20th power.”
Let’s start with the “20 factors” you claim necessary; what are they? How did you calculate the number of grains of sand on Earth (and you’re really going to have to show your work on this one)? Then, by what method did you arrive at your statistical analysis claiming that 1/n sub s (number of sand grains on Earth)*10^20 represents the likelihood of only half of the factors (not) identified would be present?
And that's just to support life. There is zero change if life spontaneously springing into existence in any imagined environment.
Archimedes, The Sand Reckoner
Fair point!
Without God actually creating the right conditions somewhere else the odds are infinitesimal and in fact if it were anything else we would say zero. The universe itself has a zero percent chance of occurring on it's own to support any life. Science had to latch on to a multi-verse theory to explain it.
Of course you know that it’s not just limited to the Navy. Most of Corporate America is afflicted similarly. Just look at Sears.
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