Path: csiph.com!au2pb.net!feeder.erje.net!2.us.feeder.erje.net!news.glorb.com!peer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2015 00:10:44 -0600 Message-ID: <566A68E4.F41@ix.netcom.com> Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 22:10:44 -0800 From: The Starmaker Reply-To: starmaker@ix.netcom.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: sci.physics Subject: Re: 'Based On Nonsense' References: <564F6B1C.6890@ix.netcom.com> <564F6DC6.127E@ix.netcom.com> <56511756.777C@ix.netcom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 28 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 162.239.141.5 X-Trace: sv3-Qx44dzajaLk/XQcYGdh2ymWrRysxAhK2J2tmrsVVFKoI3fJFxIqV9pfTZHnBIozE6mc+y6vcg/Nx/Fk!GGl2M6a9EzBJkPCB/9UsM2Ql7RcTri1giSDmoBr/HwQpyX/W0vhFSz5Qiszf5sMSiokAYVgIN3VZ!ul5JYLee X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2257 X-Received-Bytes: 2369 X-Received-Body-CRC: 1047504367 Xref: csiph.com sci.physics:538587 Michael Moroney wrote: > > Mahipal writes: > > >On Wednesday, December 9, 2015 at 9:31:44 AM UTC-5, Tom Roberts wrote: > > >> We have no evidence of life anywhere else but earth. Your bald > >> assertion cannot make it so. > > >Twenty years ago, other stars had no planets. Right? Right. > >Did these planets just fall out of nowhere into the sky recently? > > Twenty years ago, we had no _evidence of_ planets around other stars. > > Just like today, we have no _evidence of_ life anywhere else but earth. > > Today, we have evidence of planets around other stars. > > And perhaps in 20 years, we'll have evidence of life elsewhere. > > Tom's statement is correct. Without any evidence of extraterrestial > life whatsoever (so far), Ralph Rabbidge's claim is just hogwash. First you must learn to define What 'Life' Is before you can find it. a sand pebble can be considered Life. a stupid rock also.