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originally posted by: OneGoal
This notion seems baffling and logically absurd.
Are we alone and all other e.t. civilizations are dead?? Come on now.
originally posted by: Miccey
You guys are all forgetting one crusial detail...
EVOLUTION... NO!! im not gonna touch creationism...so dont even go there.
Every single organism on this planet has some origin. Yea, even Crocodiles.
And guess what, they have been around for a LOOOOOONG time.
Birds and the bees... Oh man, seriously... 99.9% is extinct, yea RIIIGHT.
No, they have EVOOOLVED...Ok
Earth could contain nearly 1 trillion species, with only one-thousandth of 1 percent now identified, according to a study from biologists. The estimate is based on the intersection of large datasets and universal scaling laws.
"Until recently, we've lacked the tools to truly estimate the number of microbial species in the natural environment," he added. "The advent of new genetic sequencing technology provides an unprecedentedly large pool of new information."
originally posted by: Miccey
Species
And this is just out:
Earth could contain nearly 1 trillion species, with only one-thousandth of 1 percent now identified, according to a study from biologists. The estimate is based on the intersection of large datasets and universal scaling laws.
And this just shows how MUCH we actually know...
As in VERY little....
"Until recently, we've lacked the tools to truly estimate the number of microbial species in the natural environment," he added. "The advent of new genetic sequencing technology provides an unprecedentedly large pool of new information."
Yes i know they are talking about
microbes mainly, but still...
We know nothing really.
99.9% my BOTTOM
originally posted by: Signals
Yes, of course it does, and many yet un-born.
Look at Earth, over 99% of every organism that ever existed on this planet is now extinct. Over 99% !
originally posted by: Harte
originally posted by: Miccey
Species
And this is just out:
Earth could contain nearly 1 trillion species, with only one-thousandth of 1 percent now identified, according to a study from biologists. The estimate is based on the intersection of large datasets and universal scaling laws.
And this just shows how MUCH we actually know...
As in VERY little....
"Until recently, we've lacked the tools to truly estimate the number of microbial species in the natural environment," he added. "The advent of new genetic sequencing technology provides an unprecedentedly large pool of new information."
Yes i know they are talking about
microbes mainly, but still...
We know nothing really.
99.9% my BOTTOM
Microbial fossils are hard to find.
Harte
originally posted by: Miccey
originally posted by: Harte
originally posted by: Miccey
Species
And this is just out:
Earth could contain nearly 1 trillion species, with only one-thousandth of 1 percent now identified, according to a study from biologists. The estimate is based on the intersection of large datasets and universal scaling laws.
And this just shows how MUCH we actually know...
As in VERY little....
"Until recently, we've lacked the tools to truly estimate the number of microbial species in the natural environment," he added. "The advent of new genetic sequencing technology provides an unprecedentedly large pool of new information."
Yes i know they are talking about
microbes mainly, but still...
We know nothing really.
99.9% my BOTTOM
Microbial fossils are hard to find.
Harte
Thats what you got from the article...
Cmon Harte, i know you can do better.
The number 99.9% is a lame guess at best..
Even doing math, it is.
So lets asume the article is valid. AND that 99.9%
is ALSO valid. 1Trillion + 99.9% almost 2trillion
species... On ONE!! planet... And how many
more out there.... WE DONT!! know
originally posted by: Miccey
On ONE planet out of "TRILLIONS AND TRILLIONS" in the universe..
Not this galaxy, i mean the entire UNIVERSE... And we are the only
one....?!?!? Seriously
No way
originally posted by: projectvxn
But I fancy the idea that one of the greatest resources in the Cosmos for us will be the extinct civilizations out there that left some infrastructure and some tech behind for us to use. I personally believe that the universe is teeming with life. And if the universe follows Earth to any degree in terms of how life evolves and goes extinct, then we are far more likely to discover millions of corpses before we discover millions of neighbors.
originally posted by: starwarsisreal
What if the reason why we didn't detect extraterrestrial civilizations because many of them are now extinct?
news.discovery.com...
Our civilization is 10,000 years old; unless a typical civilization lasts much longer, over the 13-billion year lifespan of the universe it's likely the others have gone extinct.