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Re: The aliens are silent because they're dead Jim

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Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> wrote:
> On 23/01/2016 1:20 PM, jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:
>> Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> wrote:
>>> On 23/01/2016 5:46 AM, HVAC wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Life on other planets would likely be brief and become extinct
>>>>> very quickly, say astrobiologists from The Australian National
>>>>> University (ANU).
>>>> ----------
>>>>
>>>> A fairly stupid supposition.
>>>>
>>>> First they don't define 'brief'. Life on earth has existed for a
>>>> brief period too...a few billion years. It has survived and even
>>>> flourished in the face of unrelenting extinction level events.
>>>>
>>>> Be it asteroids, massive seismic activity, lava flows over 25% of the
>>>> earth's surface and the almost total covering of the earth in ice,
>>>> life persists, adapts and evolves.
>>>>
>>>
>>> The anthropic principle applies. The fact that life survived may have
>>> been an extraordinary fluke. We have no way of knowing.
>>>
>>> Sylvia.
>>
>> Which means we also don't know if a universe filled with life is normal.
>>
>>
> 
> No. The only thing we know about life's probability is that it's 
> possible. The Earth might be the only place in the observable universe 
> where there's life at all. Or the universe could be teeming with life.
> 
> Finding life elsewhere - such as on Europa - would change that, 
> particularly if it's clearly a different kind of life (nothing 
> resembling DNA for example).
> 
> As for intelligent life - our appearance on Earth was the result of a 
> sequence of freak events, and the final push to our current level of 
> intelligence arose from a drought in Africa that nearly wiped us out, 
> and could easily have actually done so. So even if life turns out to be 
> common, it could still be that intelligent life is very rare indeed.
> 
> Sylvia.

Or the universe could be teeming with intelligent life; it is all
speculation.

Finding a different kind of life would be interesting to say the
least, though I doubt the Horta exist.


-- 
Jim Pennino

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        Re: The aliens are silent because they're dead Jim Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-01-24 12:46 +1100
          Re: The aliens are silent because they're dead Jim jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-01-24 02:17 +0000
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    Re: The aliens are silent because they're dead Jim jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-01-22 20:26 +0000
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      Re: The aliens are silent because they're dead Jim "hanson" <hanson@quick.net> - 2016-01-22 17:15 -0800
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          Re: The aliens are silent because they're dead Jim jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-01-24 01:43 +0000
      Re: The aliens are silent because they're dead Jim Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-01-24 15:07 +1100
    Re: The aliens are silent because they're dead Jim benj <none@gmail.com> - 2016-01-23 02:30 -0500
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