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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OMG..that paperclip thing just blew my mind :0
Heh.
I thought that was Spongebob Squarepants.
....our Milky Way galaxy has used up much more of the gas available for future star formation.
It was those aliens who came before us who used up the galaxy’s precious resources.
Funny, no cigar.
Only 13 and a half billion years in?
Could’ve happened 4 billion years ago.
“I do believe we are alone in this galaxy, not in terms of life but intelligence.”
I’ve often wondered why in the 130+million years of the dinosaurs, not one species evolved that was smart enough to make a civilization, but humans did in about 2 million years. Was the environment so different that it precluded inventing tools or fire? I understand the flowering plants weren’t as developed, and so the opportunities to develop opposing thumbs was decreased, but 130 million years is a long time, evolutionarily speaking.
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