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NASA: "Earth's Human Civilization Came Early in the Evolving Universe"
The Daily Galaxy ^
| October 20, 2015
| Sum Gai
Posted on 10/20/2015 4:36:24 PM PDT by sparklite2
NASA researchers say that future Earths are more likely to appear inside giant galaxy clusters and also in dwarf galaxies, which have yet to use up all their gas for building stars and accompanying planetary systems. By contrast, our Milky Way galaxy has used up much more of the gas available for future star formation.
A big advantage to our civilization arising early in the evolution of the universe is our being able to use powerful telescopes like Hubble to trace our lineage from the big bang through the early evolution of galaxies. The observational evidence for the big bang and cosmic evolution, encoded in light and other electromagnetic radiation, will be all but erased away 1 trillion years from now due to the runaway expansion of space. Any far-future civilizations that might arise will be largely clueless as to how or if the universe began and evolved.
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TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: evolution
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To: sparklite2
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posted on
10/20/2015 4:38:29 PM PDT
by
doc1019
(Out of my mind ... back in 5)
To: sparklite2
Pure speculation and fanciful conjecture.
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posted on
10/20/2015 4:39:34 PM PDT
by
Fungi
To: sparklite2
Any far-future civilizations that might arise will be largely clueless as to how or if the universe began and evolved.
We should leave them a message on a flash drive.
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posted on
10/20/2015 4:42:24 PM PDT
by
samtheman
(2014: Voters elect Repubs to congress... 2015: Repubs defund NOTHING... 2016: Trump/(Cruz or Palin))
To: sparklite2
far-future civilizations that might arise will be largely clueless Yes, that's right. not only are we the smartest civilization right now, but we are the smartest of all time !! future civs just won't get it like we do.
To: sparklite2
Well, this is one explanation for the Fermi Paradox.
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posted on
10/20/2015 4:46:06 PM PDT
by
Moonman62
(The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
To: Moonman62
I suspect it’s the right one. I do believe we are alone in this galaxy, not in terms of life but intelligence.
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posted on
10/20/2015 4:48:00 PM PDT
by
samtheman
(2014: Voters elect Repubs to congress... 2015: Repubs defund NOTHING... 2016: Trump/(Cruz or Palin))
To: Fungi
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posted on
10/20/2015 4:51:16 PM PDT
by
Leo Carpathian
(FReeeeepeesssssed)
To: sparklite2
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posted on
10/20/2015 4:52:16 PM PDT
by
Fungi
To: sparklite2
Scientists know everything about everything.
They can't tell you if it will rain 10 days from now, but the rest of it? They've got the facts down cold. And yes, 100 years from now, it will definitely rain on Tuesday.
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posted on
10/20/2015 4:53:11 PM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(I've switched. Trump is my #1. He understands how to get things done. Cruz can be VP.)
To: beebuster2000
Sarcasm aside, the expansion of the universe will eventually place distant galaxies formed in the early universe so far away, light from them will be undetectable. We will be outside their light cone.
The future civilization will see nothing, giving no clues as to what happened so long ago.
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posted on
10/20/2015 4:53:20 PM PDT
by
sparklite2
(All will become clear when it is too late to matter.)
To: Fungi
Sum Gai is Chinese for “what difference does it make?”
Or not.
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posted on
10/20/2015 4:54:15 PM PDT
by
sparklite2
(All will become clear when it is too late to matter.)
To: doc1019
Although I would vary from you in that I subscribe to an old universe (not biological evolution), I like your humor. Why you ask? Because although Christians box creation into old earth and new earth cosmology, the truth is that even in a universe of 14 billion years it is obvious the creator was in a big hurry. This article is fascinating in that conditions for life are billions of years away in other galaxies, but here, they develop quit rapidly. In other words, the earth is quit young cosmologically speaking.
To me, this is another example of general revelation.
To: ClearCase_guy
You are soaking in the success of science.
It’s only when the scientific method bumps
up against beliefs-swallowed-whole that
suddenly science must be denigrated.
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posted on
10/20/2015 4:56:31 PM PDT
by
sparklite2
(All will become clear when it is too late to matter.)
To: sparklite2
Seriously? I looked on the website and could not find his name.
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posted on
10/20/2015 4:56:34 PM PDT
by
Fungi
To: samtheman
I believe what we’ve found so far in our own Solar System, and here on Earth supports that.
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posted on
10/20/2015 4:59:08 PM PDT
by
Moonman62
(The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
To: sparklite2
Real science is testable and repeatable. I am surrounded by the wonderful products of real science.
Global Warming?
Evolution?
Origin of the Universe?
Show me your Test Plan. I'd like to repeat the experiment to see if I get the same results when I do it.
That stuff is Scientism. That's the religion of science.
I'll stick with real science.
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10/20/2015 4:59:42 PM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(I've switched. Trump is my #1. He understands how to get things done. Cruz can be VP.)
To: sparklite2
To: Moonman62
And the precariousness of our own history.
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posted on
10/20/2015 5:00:50 PM PDT
by
samtheman
(2014: Voters elect Repubs to congress... 2015: Repubs defund NOTHING... 2016: Trump/(Cruz or Palin))
To: sparklite2
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>> “Earth’s Human Civilization Came Early in the Evolving Universe” <<
.
Were they thinking about the sixth day?
.
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posted on
10/20/2015 5:01:34 PM PDT
by
editor-surveyor
(Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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