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Originally posted by TPL
I think many scientists believe there's life in the rest of the universe, many however would say the chances of life from Earth meeting life from out there any time soon are remote.
Originally posted by jacquio999
I said it in other threads and Ill say it again...People are so dazzled by the numbers of planets out there that they forget just how weird life is. One-celled organisms coming to life from dust and water is stranger than the universe is big (if that made sense). Even on this planet, where we certainly have all requirements for life, it appears to have happened only once. People act like life is a simple chemical reaction that can take place anywhere you have the proper ingredients. To me that is insane.
Sure, it could have happened elsewhere. But it wouldnt surprise me if it didn't.
[edit on 31-7-2005 by jacquio999]
Originally posted by sleeper
There are billions of planets just like earth with real people----at various stages of technological know how.
Originally posted by sleeper
Our universities are cranking out people who believe as they did hundreds of years ago---that earth is the center of the universe. That life is some great coincident that just happened
[edit on 31-7-2005 by sleeper]
Originally posted by William One Sac
Originally posted by sleeper
There are billions of planets just like earth with real people----at various stages of technological know how.
I am curious though now, would you mind sharing how you know this?
Originally posted by Distortion
What universities might these be? I disagree, I think now more than ever the human race is searching for answers, sure there are some who are counterproductive to advancement in any form (scientifically, socially, etc...) but overall we will continue to look at the universe with more scrutiny and sorry to throw this kinda cliche line but, deny ignorance.
[edit on 31-7-2005 by Distortion]
Originally posted by mrwupy
Oh good grief. It does not take intelligent life to detect intelligent life.
If I pick up a worm, that worm does not need to be intelligent to know its in my hand. It struggles to get free.
If I poke at a frog, it does not have to be intelligent to jump away. Yet it knows i'm there.
Intelligence is not a perequisite for survival.
I see the argument that your trying to make, but your argument is seriously flawed. I think you should re-think it and try again.
Love and light my friend,
Wupy
Originally posted by sleeper
You may be right, the worm and frog may in some way be equal to mankind, at least concerning intelligence.
The frog and the worm like many humans probably think---assuming they can think----that they are the only pond with frogs and the only patch of dirt with worms on this planet.
Because the frogs and worms from China and France and Italy and all those other places have not come to visit them in their pond or patch of dirt---there is no proof that they exist, would they know if they did visit?
Originally posted by Esoterica
Well, intellgient life certainly ain't in this thread. Sleeper is just making the usualy whinings about the scientific community you hear. First of all, he makes claims that the scientific communtiy does not believe in extraterrestrial life, which itself is a lie. Most people think, or at least hope, that other life exists in the unviverse. Perhaps even intelligent life.
Sleeper, have you ever heard of SETI? Or the Voyager disks? Or Exopolitics and xenopolitics? There is certainly a great deal of interest in alien life. Where you came to your conclusions I cannot fathom. You're just someone who wants to pretend he's superior to everyone else because he "knows the truth."
Now, if you want to post some facts and figures to support your accussations fo the beliefs of the scientific community, by all means do so. Otherwise, don't clog what could be a good discussion board with your complaining over nothing.
Originally posted by sleeper
It takes intelligent life to detect intelligent life...If most of our high paid scientist are running around telling people that we are it (that we are the only inteligent life in the universe) than what can the average person think?